Fish ideas for a 45g tank

[Redbird5]

I'm stumped with what types of fish I want to add to my aquarium. I lost a bout with velvet in October. I lost all my fish. My aquarium is fallow currently until mid January.

I'm researching fish. I have a flame angel in quarantine. I have a peppermint shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp, turbo snails, zombie snails, toadstool, two rock flower nems, a feather duster and pulsing polyps in my display tank.

In the past I've had clownfish, lawnmower blenny, lemon peel angelfish, royal gramma, diamond goby, high fin goby, and a mandarin.

I've done some research on longnose hawkfish and valentini puffers. From my understanding hawkfish might kill the shrimp and snails. The puffer I have questions about, will it mess with the toadstool or feather duster or the nems?

I've never really been interested in keeping wrasses. I've heard they can get mean.

There's many fish in the sea and I have basically 6 weeks to think about what fish I'd like to have.

I definitely want a mandarin and I have tons of pods in the aquarium right now. My plan is to get a captive bred mandarin. I loved my royal gramma and diamond goby.

Any suggestions on what I can research?

 

[Sam7]

I like Mandarins....i have the spotted and the ruby red and they both are super fat in my tank. They eat pods but mine both also eat any fish food i add to the tank. Your mileage may very but i have had them both for 4 years.

 

[Redbird5]

I like Mandarins....i have the spotted and the ruby red and they both are super fat in my tank. They eat pods but mine both also eat any fish food i add to the tank. Your mileage may very but i have had them both for 4 years.

Google says that the puffer might eat the feather duster.

 

[Sam7]

Google says that the puffer might eat the feather duster.

Ya i dont think most puffers are going to be reef safe. I have only had a big Dogface puffer and he would eat about anything with the big choppers he had.

 

[EliMelly]

Starry Blenny and Midas Blenny are both great with tons of personality. Flame Angel is very borderline for your size tank.

 

[Redbird5]

Ya i dont think most puffers are going to be reef safe. I have only had a big Dogface puffer and he would eat about anything with the big choppers he had.

But they're so stinkin cute! And have a huge personality.

 

[Redbird5]

Starry Blenny and Midas Blenny are both great with tons of personality. Flame Angel is very borderline for your size tank.

If I had to buy an aquarium again I would have gone with a 65G JBJ AIO.

 

[EliMelly]

If I had to buy an aquarium again I would have gone with a 65G JBJ AIO.

Yep but you have what you have. Firefish are great as well. Gobies too

 

[Redbird5]

Yep but you have what you have. Firefish are great as well. Gobies too

I like firefish. I think they would go well with the angel. I've heard that it's better to get a group of them than just a single one, but I've also heard that is a bad idea.

I'm in St Louis, I gotta have cardinals but I just can't get interested in them for whatever reason. Their colors are too much like freshwater fish.

 

[Sam7]

But they're so stinkin cute! And have a huge personality.

They sure do

 

[EliMelly]

I like firefish. I think they would go well with the angel. I've heard that it's better to get a group of them than just a single one, but I've also heard that is a bad idea.

I'm in St Louis, I gotta have cardinals but I just can't get interested in them for whatever reason. Their colors are too much like freshwater fish.

Again your tank is too small for an angel…