fish advice

Hey guys. I will be upgrading to a 6’ x 28”w x 26” h with external overflow sometime in the next 6 months and I’m doing my research on the 4 subspecies of tangs. I have mostly smaller fish now in my 60 galling but I overstock and probably have 15 to 20 fish in there. Most pretty small. I also...

I have a 32.5 gallon display tank with a 10 gallon sump (42.5 gallons all together). I’m looking to get a wrasse, but I can’t find one that would be good for my tank. I plan to have softie/lps coral, two clownfish, a tailspot Blenny, a royal gramma, a cleaner shrimp, and some snails and a conch...

So! I am currently in the process of upgrading my 40g to a 100g tank and my favorite fish I've kept so far is the longnose hawkfish. I just love them and I am excited to give my little buddy more room to glide. My question is, can more than 1 longnose hawkfish be kept in a tank? Specifically...

My grouper has been rubbing himself on the sand and he has been eating quite well also he has this mark I thought at first was just his coloring it’s not identical to the other side hes hard to tell I was thinking the temperature because I have a glass lid heat gets trapped so it gets hot like...

Hi, I am looking to get some advice on a stock list for my tank. I have a 40g breeder, with a 20 gallon sump. have 2 clowns, an algae blenny, some snails, a bunch of hermits and a cleaner shrimp looking to see if any others had some cool ideas or suggestions for me!

I am thinking of switching to an anemone only tank with Bubble tips, carpets, and mini carpets. What fish can I keep? Clowns? Other damsels?

So! I'm wanting to put a yasha goby and a hectors goby in my 20g I'm nuvo. Those, a pistol shrimp, and maybe a possum wrasse or something that'll swim more mid To top level of the tank(feel free to suggest something) will be the only thing in the tank with probably some rock flower nems. I...

Hi I’m looking for advice if I’m at my limit of my tank? What could I add more of? And what inverts I could add? I’m also upgrading the tank in a couple months from a 65g to 150g. My current stock list is 2 clownfish, 4 chromis, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 brittle starfish, anemones, coral, a couple...

Hello new to the whole reef thing never had a tank and my friend gave me a year old established one that I'm way in over my head any tips tricks ideas things you'd add things you would take out anything at all, I'm all ears! Current set up is a 32 bio cube Media basket Refugium basket Nero 3...

I plan on creating a LPS and Soft coral tank, maybe throwing in a couple SPS later on if it a successful tank. I am doing a lot of research, and have found many suitable tankmates, but I never know what to choose. What would be the best group of fish or type of fish to get (there will be a lot...

I have been studying non-stop, trying to find the best combination of fish, COC, filter, equipment, and coral for my 32.5g bowfront reef tank. I have not started it yet, but I plan to in the next month or two, so more time to study lol. I stumbled across an article saying the Gold Assessor...

I have had the issue of my fish getting stuck in my filter. First it was my small ocellaris clownfish, so I attached a piece of fine mesh over the filter (I have a AIO filter from fiji cube) but yesterday I noticed my diamond goby was nowhere to be found. I looked in the filter and he was...

Hello everyone. We are about 1 month now into the hobby and made a list of fishes we would potentially like to have. We obviously know a lot of these we won't be able to get but would like your opinion on what we can or should not get, problems they may cause or alternatives. Now we do want to...

Hey guys I have a 40 gallon reef tank set up and it’s almost out of the cycling stage. I plan on keeping hardy corals in there and adding them once the tank is about 3-6 months old, or at least after the algae bloom stage is over. I am thinking of adding the following fish: - 1x Clownfish: I...

I’m starting up a 140 gallon tank and it’s almost cycled(per tests) and I think I got my list together so here it is snowflake eel Purple tang Fox face Red coris wrasse Flame angle Starry blenny 3 lyretail anthias 2 zebra barred inverts/ cleanup crew sand sifting starfish 5 Mexican turbo...

So I do believe I have a quoyi parrotfish. I have had him for over a year now and never really had any problems with him untill recently. He doesn't pick at any corals thankfully but he's become a bully ever since I got a upgrade from 150 to a 300g. All the original fish that were in the 150...

Strapping together my first SW tank and I’ve been composing my (at the time) fish list. The tank will be 4’ long, 22” deep and I believe 30” tall. Sand sediment and likely 90lbs or rock. I made up this list with things in mind such as what fish I would love to have and what has a utilitarian...

I had a velvet outbreak 8 weeks ago today that killed off all my fish unfortunately, I’ve been fallow since then but for some reason had a green hair algae outbreak as well as spikes in ammonia, my phosphates , alk, cal, nitrates, ph are all well within recommended ranges I’ve been able to take...

I recently purchased a wheeler gobby and tiger pistol shrimp yesterday. This was an impulse buy and not on my original list… so here is my question. On my list was a diamond watchman gobby. Can I still get him or do I need to cancel my order? See below for the beautiful pair, I couldn’t resist...

Wondering how many fish you can have in a 32 gallon biocube that won’t be too heavy of a bio load on my corals. Currently have a clown and a six line wrasse but for sure wanting to get a yellow clown goby and a yellow head jawfish. Would like more fish then that but feel like that would...

Hey all! It’s my first post so hopefully I’m using this right. I have a 60 gallon reef tank- mostly softies- with nearly a dozen fish. I was looking for some midwater colorful fish I could add to the group. Here is what I currently have: 2- tomato clowns 3- blue green chromis 2- spot blenny...

Hello, so recent I have had a bit of an aphasia problem. I have tried solving it with aptasia X but to no avail. Recently I saw I white spot on my one spot fox face rabbit fish. It was a spot on the false eye spot of the fish. At first I thought this was ich. However, when I took a closer look...

Hello everyone! I’ve been in the hobby for around only 6 months, I started with a 75 Gal with only 4 fish, but now have a 75 gal and 125 gal. I want a new long term setup for both of the tanks, I most certainly want coral in at least the 75 gal. I am considering clownfish only I’m the 75 gal...

Hi all- I purchased this blue tang 2 weeks ago, it was picking at rocks, and eating some emerald entre + pellet. Recently over the past week, it has been hiding in 2x places total and "playing dead" i dont believe it has eated much sense. I havent noticed any white spots either. I did not QT...

Hi all, I've got a 65 gallon tank that is 36"x24"x18" (LxWxH) and I'm looking to add a couple wrasses. I'd like to get an African exquisite fairy wrasse, but on liveaquaria they say you need a 90 gallon. In contrast to this, I've seen a minimum of 50 gallons being recommended. Can anyone let me...