Pick My Next Fish? Invert? Coral?

I have two o. clown. and a baby hippo tand.

Iam getting ready to add my fourth fish!

I have a 72 bowfront
90 pounds of live rock
4 t5s coralife 2 10k 2 acinitc

HELP ME PICK MY NEXT FISH? iNVERT? OR CORAL?

i like original, different looking things


P.S also some help with cleaning crew suggestions

 

il post picks of the winner! (animal i choose)

 

Hey ger10 - how long has it been since you set up your tank? How long has it been since you added the last inhabitant? I would wait at least a whole month or more in between fish additions. Especially tangs which are poop machines - you want to make sure your biological load does not overtake the capabilities of your biological filtration.

All those things being equal, you have literally an "ocean" of choices to select from. Especially if you open it to corals, inverts, AND fish!!!

I really am a big fan of scarlet/skunk cleaner shrimp. Pretty hardy, attractive and will likely set up a "cleaning station" and "advertise" to your clowns and hippo tang that it will gladly clean them for free!!! I have a cleaner in my 120DT that LOVES to hop on my Tomini tang - it's my favorite reef behavior to observe!!!!

 

Yep inverts are the coolest. I love inverts almost as much as the fish. Some people do not like urchins but I love mine. For a ball of spines he has a personality, and he even dodges all the frags without knocking them over. Great algea eater.

 

it has been 2 weeks. man its hard to wait though! i do always wait, but its hard, i want to get everything in there. haha. but i guess il wait littlel longer then. maybe the shrimp for now, or a crab or something.

 

I would say a shrimp would be ok but I too would wait on the fish. I rushed when I first started and I had a couple loses. It's always better to wait.

 

i would say get something small like a cardinal blenny or goby. because you are pushing it with that tang in the tank, i believe they are supposed to be in at least 100 gallons.

 

If it has only been two weeks since your last addition (especially if it was the poop-producing hippo tang!!!) then I would absolutely give it another few weeks before you decide to add another fish. Adding an invert now would probably be fine. Be sure to choose carefully, do your research, and drip acclimate your new inhabitants as inverts are more sensitive to parameter swings than fish.

 

If your going coral - I love my new torch coral. But I have to agree - I would wait 2 more weeks before adding any fish. Do you have a benny?

 

didnt catch how long the tank has been up, but if your tank is "mature" you could try a bubble tip anenome, though i would wait 6 months until after all fish are added. some simple but elegant inverts are also feather worms, a starfish, (marbled are my favorite), skunk cleaner (they can be real PIGS though), sea slugs (good part of CUC), or urchins.

also a clam would be a beautiful addition, but require good water.

as for fish and corals, just look at the Diver's Den section of Liveaquria.