Stocking a 75 gallon reef tank.

[zanemoseley]

Ok I'm gonna be getting a 75gal tank in a few months and I'm planning the fish and stuff I"m gonna have. Here's the equipment I'm gonna get
75 gallon Oceanic tank
NO lighting hood
AquaC remora pro
4 majijet 900's
60lb of Hawiian dead rock
50lb FL live rock from tampa
100lb of FL live sand from tampa
at least 50 bluelegs, 15turbos, 2 tiger tail cuc. 1pistol shrimp
no mechanical filters
I'm not gonna have corals in it right from the start but I"m gonna upgrade the lighting after about 4-5 months after starting the tank, I've already got a quarentine tank.
here's some of the fish I'm looking at getting for the tank, let me know what you think
1 flame angelfish
1 yellow longnose butterfly
2 true perc. clown
1 firefish goby
1 bicolor pseudochromis
1 yellow tang
not necessarily put in in that order but just fish I was thinking about

 

[nm reef]

Sounds like a decent plan....I may be wrong but I think your butterfly choice may have a tendacy to nip corals. So IF my memory serves me right you may want to reconsider the butterfly if you intend to develope a reef.Always good to see folks have a plan in place and asking questions before they fall off the deep end!

 

[michaeltx]

yeah they are about a 50/50 chance of taken a likeing to corals so I would find another fish and stay away from it. but the rest looks good.
Mike

 

[zanemoseley]

well the flame angel and long nose butterfly both say under reef safe: with caution
also are this fish an ok bioload for LR, LS and a remora pro but no mechanical filtration?

 

[bdhough]

You don't need so many turbos. They will probably eat themselves to death. They need alot alot of algae. I would go with maybe 5 and 10 astrea snails or ceriths or combo both. Also go with about 20-30 blue legs. Maybe some shrimp or emeralds.
Variety is the key.

 

[perchpsk]

I would say the bicolor psuedo and the larger fish will pester the firefish to death. Firefish can be very timid around larger more agressive fish, so I would say leave that fish off of the list.

 

[zanemoseley]

ok scratch the firefish off the list, as far as the turbos I'm getting a package from tampa with LR, LS and critters and thats how many come with it so if they eat each other ohh well
Ok I looked up butterflys in the conscientious marine aquarist and all the butterfly's he reccomends say with caution in reef tanks on the internet so I don't know, the flame angel also says with caution for reef tanks but it seems tons of people have them in reefs
will my bioload be under control?