reef fish recomendations

[njed34]

I have a 75 gallon reef tank with 20 gallon sump, i have a percula clownfish, a sleeper goby, a blue hippo tang, and a mandarin goby. corals include zooanthids mushrooms a crocea clam , gonioporra, pom pom xenia, and a fire shrimp and a sifting star, what else do you recommend as far as fish, inverts, corals, and what quantities of these, everything is peaceful and get along.

[TimH07]

if it were my tank i'd get rid of the blue hippo tang, and the sand sifter star, neither are suited for a 75 (many many will argue this to the point of exhaustion but it is what it is)

the sand sifter star will leave your sand bed barren of microfauna and negates the point of a sand bed.

i've heard problems with gonipora but have no experience with them.

now that thats said, i also have a 75 and i prefer (with proper lighitng) montipora of all kinds they grow fast and are great looking, perhaps hammer/frogspawn corals, acans, lobo's ect.


tell us more about your tank as well!

[cdearing]

What kind of lighting do you have?
How long has your tank been set up?

[njed34]

4x54w t5 454 and super actinic and 2 10000k white, set up for 3 months, moved from 36 gallon , have 80 pounds live sand and 75 pounds live rock, going to buy halide 2 250 watt and 2 t5 actinic with moonlights

[TimH07]

sounds like you are going to have a great amount of rock, and lighting, how about skimmer?

[njed34]

i put my remora in the sump with aquaclear 70 hang on filter with sponge, poly filter algone and phosphate remover, also have filter sock on overflow line and mag pump on the return. 3 powerheads , a 228 power sweep, a maxi1200 and a medium koralia

[cdearing]

It's kind of hard to tell someone what they should put in their tanks. It's up to your personal preference. I would recommend looking at members photo galleries or certain reef threads and just see what catches your eye then do some studying on the internet to see if it is compatable with what you already have. You can also private message the members and ask them about specific corals and fish to see what their experiences have been like. For corals, you can do about anything with your metal halides. Are you wanting to keep mainly LPS or SPS corals? Two of my favorites so far are my torch and neon hammer corals. They really catch the eye in my tank, I think. I have quite a few SPS frags but they are small still and so it will take a little while for those to take shape.

[cdearing]

Idea:
How about posting a pic of what your tank looks like now?