Terrible Luck with Fish

[Brian5000]

I seem to have terrible luck finding compatible fish. I had a yellowtail damsel prevent me from adding anything else in the tank. I had a wrasse for a year before it woke up one day and decided to kill everything. Now I have a purple dottyback that has asserted itself over half of my 75 and just nipped my shrimp right in the nose. He's in a bag now waiting to go back to the fish store.

Before my next purchase, I'd like to check here beforehand. I have two healthy clowns and a shrimp, assorted soft corals, a small hammer, and a small galaxy.

I would eventually like:
Royal Gramma Basslet (a lot like the dottyback, which I kinda liked, but less aggressive?)
Coral Beauty Angelfish (May pick at some corals but not kill anything?)
Yellow Tang (How aggressive are these?)

Any warnings, suggestions or substitutions are welcome.

Thanks
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[ihopss]

All I can help with is the yellow tang, my wife has one and it never bothers anything in the tank.

 

[bleedingthought]

You're in the right path about the coral beauty and the royal gramma. Yellow tangs can be aggressive, especially as they get older/bigger/established. But shouldn't be a problem without any other tangs or fish that are very timid/weak. They are probably the easiest tangs to keep and are very beautiful!

Good luck!

 

[iseeweed]

I have a yellow tang with 3 blue/green chromis, a clown, a few gobys, and a 6 line wrasse. They all seem very tame and have been together for about a year. In my opinion the most agressive out of the bunch is the clown. If another fish gets near his host torch coral, he tends to snap.

 

[Brian5000]

Thank you for your responses. I will proceed as planned then
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[Anonymous]

Put the yellow tang in last. I had a change of plan and got a naso, changed my fish list. The yellow tang gave it hell for 3 days. Fine now though.

 

[Brian5000]

I figured, thanks. I'm adding them exactly in the order their listed.
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[mr_X]

my coral beauty attacked anything i had in the tank. it stressed alot of the fish to the point of health problems (ich).
my yellowtail damsels killed all the other damsels and then picked on the other fish once they were dead. :?

 

[Anonymous]

They really p@#*s me off sometimes, anything i put in my tank is cicled by the yellow tang for about a day. If it is a fish then it is for three days of hell. The majestic angel will have a go at things, just won't chase them around like the tang.

 

[Brian5000]

Well, I bought a royal gramma and a coral beauty already. The royal gramma didn't acclimate well or something; it died the next day. The coral beauty is behaving so far. It's best friends with my cleaner shrimp. the angel comes up to it periodically for a "spa treatment" and they seem to sleep in the same hole at night. I'm going back today for another royal gramma. I'll give this one an extra long acclimation.

I want to add the fish in a relatively short timeframe because they are all different degrees of semiaggressive. I'm hoping this will prevent any one becoming too comfortable in the tank. I'll give these guys a week or two, and then we'll try the tang.
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