I feel like a total NOOB... quick advice

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Brian Bivens

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Jun 8, 2007
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Just getting back into the salt hobby after a five year hiatus (moved back to Colorado from Philly)...

With that being said, I had successfully kept a 20 long with a black saddleback clown, a six line wrasse...

Now I have a 75 gallon tank (total water volume 90 gallons) that is almost cycled. 75 lbs of live rock, a 750 gallon per hour wave maker, and a 750 gallon per hour Rio pump in the sump. Additionally I have a lot of LED lighting (two ecoxotic lights) and in my sump, I have a turf scrubber set up, with alternate lighting schedule.

Now, I really want to keep things simple, so I was thinking of stocking as follows (and buying the fish in this order):
2 ocelaris clowns (spelling?),
5-6 Green Chromis
bi-color blenny
a 6 line wrasse,

and maybe another fish, like a coral beauty, or a couple of purple firefish...

Any thoughts or input for a fresh water old timer getting back into salt?
 

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Is it a fish only tank? I love the look of the Flame Angel over the Coral Beauty.
Royal Grammas are always nice too.
 

Brian Bivens

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Jun 8, 2007
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It will have soft corals (green star polyps, zoas, ricordia/shrooms and at most a LPS like a brain, trumpet or frogspawn... I love the royal grammas too... I accidentally bought a bicolor psudochromis before and he harassed my saddleback clown and had to go back to the LFS...

I have read too that Green Chromis mature, then kill eachother off... I was hoping for a little schooling, but if anyone has another suggestion, I am all ears!
 

Brian Bivens

Labeotropheus Trawavasae
Jun 8, 2007
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Colorado Springs
What about this:

2 Snowflake Clowns (or one black and one orange ocellaris)
2 Purple Firefish
2 Banggai Cardinals
1 Coral Beauty or Flame
1 Royal Grama

Then a clean up crew of something like a coral banded shrimp, a peppermint shrimp, 4-5 blue leg hermits, 2 turbos, 3-4 nassarius snails, 3-4 astraea snails and 2 nerites...
 

Brian Bivens

Labeotropheus Trawavasae
Jun 8, 2007
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Ok, so far, I have a snowflake and an Ocellaris, a Royal Grama and three Green Chromis, 5 hermits, 5 astrae and 1 nassarius...

For corals I have a dragon eye zoa, some green star polyps, a trumpet coral and some other zoas (kind of a brown with orange)...

0 ammonia
0 trites
5 trates

Using instant ocean reef, and dosing iodide and Seachem's reef complete
 
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