fish for 6 gallon softie tank

[blueridgereef]

Okay, so in a last-ditch effort to save my softies, which were slowly declining in my 10 gallon, I stuck them all in the 6 gallon JBJ I had sitting around. Now I'm trying to find something interesting fish that is within my HS budget[ie, <$20] to put in there. I've been toying with some kind of goby[clown or firefish], or a sixline wrasse. Or move the small clown in the ten over, and get 2-3 chromis to go in the 10. they really are very pretty, and i think their colour would look great with the LPS that are in the 10. I don't know, it'd be nice to have something in the 6 that's shyer and you normally wouldn't get to see, it's one of my favorite things about nanos, and the smaller you go, the more you seem to see...
Any suggestions?

 

[subielover]

Sharknose goby, don't put a 6-line in there.

 

[blueridgereef]

Sharknose goby, don't put a 6-line in there.

taking another look, three inches, how did i miss that?! okay, so i guess the six line is out, unless i put on in the ten, but that's not what this thread is about...
i wonder if i stocked the tank with copepods if i could pull off one of the ORA mandarins...humm...or a small pipefish...dwarf seahorses! hummm....

 

[inactive]

Stick to nano gobies. :)

 

[blueridgereef]

okay, so i think i'm either gonna do a clown goby, a neon/sharknose goby, a firefish, the clown from the ten...or SH...still can't kick that idea :P

 

[fenderguy1]

Green banded Goby! Awesome lil fish

 

[blueridgereef]

Green banded Goby! Awesome lil fish

just googled them...they are cute! do you have one?

 

[fenderguy1]

Yup For about a year now. Great nano fish The green bands really glow!

 

[nixer]

catalina goby or barnicle blennies!

 

[inactive]

Catalina goby is a coldwater fish that will die in a reef tank.

 

[CoralBandit]

glad someone jumped on that, and please dont put a mandarin in there, what about a the goby they mentioned with green striped or a green or yellow clown goby?

 

[hawkfishman]

rainford goby cool, tiny and eat algea under 15 bucks also

 

[blueridgereef]

thanks guys! i've fallen in love with green banded gobies, so i think that's what i'm gonna get :)

 

[Steven Pro]

thanks guys! i've fallen in love with green banded gobies, so i think that's what i'm gonna get :)

Good choice!

 

[mistyash]

I had a pair of green banded gobies for a while. They're really cute and fun to watch.

 

[fenderguy1]

Good choice!

+1 :)

 

[inactive]

rainford goby cool, tiny and eat algea under 15 bucks also

Interesting, I would say no...

 

[mistyash]

I thought Rainford gobies are like mandarins. They need more room to graze.