Setting up reef tank

[verojeremy]

Ok so i have a 75 gallon tank with a refugium, 6x t5 lights its a tek fixture, 750 and 550 gph koalia powerheads, 90 pounds of live rock, 2 inches of live sand, and a heater.
For coral i want, green star polyp, sunflower zoos, hammer coral, frogspawn, sun coral, bubble tip anemone, leather toadstool and maybe more down the line.
For fish I wanted, 2 nemos, mystery wrasse, kole tang, mandarin dragonet, 2-3 chalk basslets, indigo dottyback, golden headed sleeper goby, coral beauty dwarf angelfish, and here is the main thing, i want to get either a Fiji Blue Dot Toby Puffer, or a saddle valentini puffer fish but I want to keep cleaner shrimp; so will that be a problem I don't think so because I have seen cleaner shrimp go in moray eels mouths and clean but, will they eat any corals, nip at fish or eat my cleaner shrimp.

 

[flower]

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Originally Posted by verojeremy http:///t/388364/setting-up-reef-tank#post_3424718
Ok so i have a 75 gallon tank with a refugium, 6x t5 lights its a tek fixture, 750 and 550 gph koalia powerheads, 90 pounds of live rock, 2 inches of live sand, and a heater.
For coral i want, green star polyp, sunflower zoos, hammer coral, frogspawn, sun coral, bubble tip anemone, leather toadstool and maybe more down the line.
For fish I wanted, 2 nemos, mystery wrasse, kole tang, mandarin dragonet, 2-3 chalk basslets, indigo dottyback, golden headed sleeper goby, coral beauty dwarf angelfish, and here is the main thing, i want to get either a Fiji Blue Dot Toby Puffer, or a saddle valentini puffer fish but I want to keep cleaner shrimp; so will that be a problem I don't think so because I have seen cleaner shrimp go in moray eels mouths and clean but, will they eat any corals, nip at fish or eat my cleaner shrimp.
Hi, I'm afraid 11 fish is way too many for a 75g and you can't mix dottybacks with a basselet, they fight. I also think you can only have one basselet per tank as well. The puffer will eat shrimp and snails. I don't know about them beyond that. My sleeper goby killed my mandarin, so I don't think they can be together. Wrasses jump, so you have to really enclose the tank with mesh and make a little door to feed them, and with coral you always have your hand in the tank...mine jumped when I was feeding the fish. I had a kole tang, it was a very drab brown fish with yellow eyes. I like the foxface better they eat algae and they are bright yellow.
The mandarin will not be able to be added for at least a year to allow the refugium to build up the pod population.
In my 75g...if I were restocking
2 perc clowns (nemos)
Foxface rabbitfish
Mandarin (later)
Orchid dottybak
Dwarf angelfish
Lawnmower blenny

 

[rynosreef]

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Originally Posted by Flower http:///t/388364/setting-up-reef-tank#post_3424743
Hi, I'm afraid 11 fish is way too many for a 75g and you can't mix dottybacks with a basselet, they fight. I also think you can only have one basselet per tank as well. The puffer will eat shrimp and snails. I don't know about them beyond that. My sleeper goby killed my mandarin, so I don't think they can be together. Wrasses jump, so you have to really enclose the tank with mesh and make a little door to feed them, and with coral you always have your hand in the tank...mine jumped when I was feeding the fish. I had a kole tang, it was a very drab brown fish with yellow eyes. I like the foxface better they eat algae and they are bright yellow.
The mandarin will not be able to be added for at least a year to allow the refugium to build up the pod population.
In my 75g...if I were restocking
2 perc clowns (nemos)
Foxface rabbitfish
Mandarin (later)
Orchid dottybak
Dwarf angelfish
Lawnmower blenny
i agree.....but adding to many fish will be hard on ur corals being ur bio load will not yet be ready with such a big load change, if u just throw all of them in at once. start slow patience is a must.

 

[flower]

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Originally Posted by rynosreef http:///t/388364/setting-up-reef-tank#post_3424760
i agree.....but adding to many fish will be hard on ur corals being ur bio load will not yet be ready with such a big load change, if u just throw all of them in at once. start slow patience is a must.
Thanks rynosreef for bringing that up.
I didn't realize how it sounded...one fish at a time and using a quarantine tank for each will put enough distance between critters to be able to keep a balance. You can add 2 clowns at once. I always added three coral at a time in between adding fish. yes patience is the only way to roll when you're dealing with fish.