I recently lost 5 fish to ick...I think the other two are surviving. At any rate I am going to want to restock eventually. I figured a month after I have seen no signs of ick would be okay. Sound good? The survivors are a gold stripe maroon and a yellow tang. I know the yellow tang may be a bad choice but he is there and I didnt know when I got him. If he has to go okay but he seems to have a nice little area he has claimed...anywhere other than the surface lol. He leaves small fish like clowns alone but tortured a butterfly when it was just him and the butterfly. I put in a third large fish and he calmed down allowing the others to move around. So what should I restock with? I was thinking another gold stripe, I have had mine 6-8 months and it is about 1 to 1.5 inch long. It never bother my other two ocellaris clowns (ick deaths) I had in the tank and is pretty nice to everyone...i know that may change. The fish need to be reef safe. I have 70 or so blue legs, 5 scarlet hermits, and 30-40 snails. Also I have a basket star, a feather star, a serpent star, a carpet, a BTA, 2 zoos, 5 sps corals, and some sea grapes that have taken off (my NO3 levels are 0ppm and were before putting them in). So I have a 46 bow front reef with a 400watt MH...what fish should I get eventually? Thanks

Opps I left out a few things. I also have a cleaner shrimp, a coral banded shrimp, and 3 pepermint shrimp...and a bristle worm I saw last night...bah, I bought a coralife bristle worm trap today. I'll give it a test soon.

Bristle worms can be good part of your cleanup crew. Look em up and try to identify it. If you saw one there are probably more.

Keep an eye on the coral banded shrimp. I have heard of them sometimes getting pretty agressive and be a threat to the other shrimp and fish you have in there.

As far as stocking, I would think that the 3 big fish you had were too much for 46 gallons. One tang is plenty of large fish in there. I thin a light bioload is an advantage so I would say the one tang plus 3 or 4 small fish.

The maroon will grow pretty large too. IMO you may want something in blue to add another color to your tank. :)