Alright, I lost track of what you added and moved around and what you added back and when. One thing is obvious, you never allowed any one group to stay together long enough to form a stable shoal with you constantly moving fish around and removing fish and adding fish back. Also, instead of managing the tank to accomodate the fish you had, you just moved fish around until now you moved them to a larger tank.
What I stated about a group living in a 55 long term exactly the way I explained it is NOT debatable. These are my actual experiences with keeping angelfish in a 55 gallon tank. By buying young 1-1/2 inch fish I have grown groups of angels out several times in a 55 gallon tank and maintained them long term. The first three times ended after between 3 and 6 years because I moved and gave the fish away, because my one tank of angelfish played second fiddle to my dozens of Africans. This last time the peace lasted from early 2006 when the fish room was done to mid-2017. The angels started dying in late 2013 and the last one died in mid- 2017. Typical lifespan of angels in captivity is 8-10 years plus or minus, so I have to say I was successful. I'm also holding to the statement that you keep one or you keep a shoal. That's the way I learned to keep angels and it has never let me down. A pair or trio is going to be a problem if even one is a male.
Maybe your experiences are different, but that does not make my experiences wrong or any less factual.
We both are making an assumption as to the decor in the 55. I assumed it would be decorated at the very least, and possibly planted, you assumed it wouldn't be. The OP doesn't state one way or the other how the 55 will be set up. I did not notice the 75 was going to be set up as an iwagumi, which is typically a fairly sparsely planted style focusing on low growing plants if I remember right.
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