anthias for a 75 gallon tank?

what and how many would be a good canidate for a reef tank?

deminsions are 48x18x21

these are some other fish that I want in there:
x2 fire fish
x2 misbar clowns
x1 manderin
x1 tail spot blenny
x5 blue green reef chromis

filtration is a nac3 skimmer, uv light, reactor with either GAC or bio-pellets, fuge with DSB.

 

1 Male Fathead Anthias (Serranocirrhitus latus). Very neat fish, weird personality. Don't play well with others of its kind. You could also do a trio of Bartlett's or Lyretails...but that might be pushing the limits.

 

a trio sounds cool but the lyretails need a 125 or bigger the barletts would work though

 

I have a trio of blotched anthias in a 55. They're 3 or 4 years old now.

A single lyretail female in another 55 for 6-8 years.

Red saddled in a 24g JBJ nano with an orange spotted filefish, 3-4 years.

Sunburt in a 30.... 2 years? Something like that. I'm not very good at guessing time.

So, there are indeed some nice options for your 75

 

sweet the three seems like they would add color and somthing cool in the tank

 

I know someone who had 5 anthias in a 90, they did very well (but died of velvet which was unrelated to the tank size) I will say, that when they get full grown, they need a new home, or the anthias pd will arrest you.

 

11 fish seems easily possible with good filtration, although the chromis may kill each-other off. Consider wrasse too.

 

thought of the wrasse they just dint have the pop that the anthis do IMO, plus the wrasse that i like are way more money than the anthis LOL

I am thinking 1-3 of these Dispar Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar) or Ignitus Anthias (Pseudanthias ignitus)

so at full stock there would be a total of 14 fish, if not then a total of 12. I really like the ignitus more and they stay smaller by half an inch.

the chromis should be ok from what i have read but there is a 75/25 split on the sucess of the chromis so i may reduce the number to three but as of yet I am undecided on that.

 

Trade 4 Chromis for maybe three smaller Anthias like Bartlet's or Ignitus.

 

thinking and really liking the 3 ignitus.

so w/o the chromis

x2 fire fish
x2 misbar clowns
x1 manderin
x1 tail spot blenny
x3 ignitus

totaling 9 fish total inches would be right around 21.5 inches

any thoughts on one more good and diffrent edition, wrasse mabey?????