How many fish can i keep in a 75g
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I am not an expert. It will be tough with all the tangs in that size of a tank. Aggression issues and also size. I am not the Tang Police. I am saying this out of experience with my 90. 2 mandarins will be hard to feed. You will need a lot of PODs. I would pick out your favorite fish. I only have 5 fish in my 90 but the zen is great so nothing will be added. JMO
No tangs, that tank is way too small, unless you plan to upgrade again soon, this was one of the biggest reasons I upgraded, And I wouldnt have 2 madarins in that tank either, they need quite a bit of rock to graze, I had 2, one did great, the other didnt. Im sure the one that lived was keeping the other one form eating, that was a learning mistake.
When I had that tank I was pretty much maxed out with the following list;
2 perculas
2 black and white clowns
lawnmower belnny
pigmy hawk fish
purple psuedo
3 pajama cardinals
3 chromis
CUC and 2 coral banded shrimps
Plus the 2 nems and all the coral my bio load was close to spiking, however I was not using that big *** wet dry filter I gave you, that may be able to handle more fo a bio load, I would start slow and watch your levels, youll know when your getting close to being completly stocked.
When I had that tank I was pretty much maxed out with the following list;
2 perculas
2 black and white clowns
lawnmower belnny
pigmy hawk fish
purple psuedo
3 pajama cardinals
3 chromis
CUC and 2 coral banded shrimps
Plus the 2 nems and all the coral my bio load was close to spiking, however I was not using that big *** wet dry filter I gave you, that may be able to handle more fo a bio load, I would start slow and watch your levels, youll know when your getting close to being completly stocked.
Your blenny does not eat the pods, however other fish very well might and probably will. The 2 dragonettes might do fine now, but as soon as you add anything else that may have a taste for pods the food supply is going to be drasticly cut down, leaving them to fight over food and only one of them will win. I would take caution here.
If you plan to keep 2 dragonettes I would highly reccomend trying to ween them to frozen foods, its hard, but can be done, my dragonette now only eats frozens as apposed to when I first got him. Was a rigurous process and started with live brine, then to a mix of live and frozen brine then to just frozen brine and bllodworms and then I weaned him onto frozen mysis. All of these are in the frozen mix I feed so now I just feed normally and the draginette actually eats fomr the top.
If you plan to keep 2 dragonettes I would highly reccomend trying to ween them to frozen foods, its hard, but can be done, my dragonette now only eats frozens as apposed to when I first got him. Was a rigurous process and started with live brine, then to a mix of live and frozen brine then to just frozen brine and bllodworms and then I weaned him onto frozen mysis. All of these are in the frozen mix I feed so now I just feed normally and the draginette actually eats fomr the top.
The general rule of thumb for keeping fish in an aquarium is 1 inch of full grown fish per gallon of water. This can be tweaked and such depending on what kind of filtration (the more the better), but that's the rule of thumb to use. Use live aquaria or some other type of website to check and see how big each of your fish get, then depending on that you can gauge how good your filtration is for the system. You should have a good idea after that.
I agree with what has been said so far. When I considered my 75G fully stocked I had: yellow eye Kole tang, 2 ocellaris clowns, diamond goby, 2 purple fire fish, green mandarin dragonette, sun burst anthias.
The only tang I would put in a 75 is a bristle tooth which would be Chevron, Kole (yellow or blue eye), Tomini. I am sure there are a few others I am missing. They are a smaller species of tang. Another thing to keep in mind with the Chevron tang is that while they are very beautiful as juveniles, they change colors into adult hood and are considerably less striking. Here is a link with some pics http://www.marinelifephotography.com/fishes/surgeonfishes/ctenochaetus-hawaiiensis.htm
The only tang I would put in a 75 is a bristle tooth which would be Chevron, Kole (yellow or blue eye), Tomini. I am sure there are a few others I am missing. They are a smaller species of tang. Another thing to keep in mind with the Chevron tang is that while they are very beautiful as juveniles, they change colors into adult hood and are considerably less striking. Here is a link with some pics http://www.marinelifephotography.com/fishes/surgeonfishes/ctenochaetus-hawaiiensis.htm
To those of you that think two mandarins are too much:
You could be right if they are wild caught or finicky but in the past couple years, more and more aquacultured mandarins
are available that have been raised on flake, frozen, and/or pellet. I would say that if you get aquacultured mandarins, you
should be able to keep them in a pretty small tank.
JMHO
As for the tangs, I'm not a member of the tang police either, but I have a 200g tank that has a purple tang, yellow tang, hippo tang, and HAD a scoapus tang. The purple
tang didn't like the scoapus apparently.
You could be right if they are wild caught or finicky but in the past couple years, more and more aquacultured mandarins
are available that have been raised on flake, frozen, and/or pellet. I would say that if you get aquacultured mandarins, you
should be able to keep them in a pretty small tank.
JMHO
As for the tangs, I'm not a member of the tang police either, but I have a 200g tank that has a purple tang, yellow tang, hippo tang, and HAD a scoapus tang. The purple
tang didn't like the scoapus apparently.
Thanks guys I appreciate the feed back I'll have to check out this website as I've never heard of it and I'll do some more research, hopefully be able to keep at least one smaller tang. And I have read full articles on getting mandarins to eat prepared frozen food but havent needed to yet. ReefMaster on Saturday I can show you the article if you like walks you through step by step.