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1st things 1st.
90g reef ready mixed reef
Chinese black box LED x 2
Jaebo RW-8 x 2
30g sump holding:
Reefoctopus 200 classic
Return pump (will have to look up specs, but plenty of flow)
3 macro algae lit by 15w CD
Heater

Current inhabitants:
Exquisite wrasse
Red headed fairy wrasse
McCosker's flasher wrasse
Yellow Corris wrasse
Melenarius wrasse (boss fish)
Kole tang
Mandarin dragonette
Chalk basslet
Clarkii clown hosting a duncan

Coral banded shrimp
Tiger tail cucumber
Fighting conch
Usual assortment of snails, Cerenth, mini Cerenth, nassarius, astrea, trochus, nerite, margaritas and turbos
About 10 hermits
Emerald crab

Mixed SPS LPS and pumas and zoas, 1 nps chili coral

Normal reef parameters

Ok...I want 1 more colorful active reef safe fish. Everything in the tank is fine which is why didn't list my parameters and such. Just looking for one new inhabitant and open to suggestions or photos.
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Depending on how much risk you're up for, a flame angel might fit your bill ... I'm given to understand that _most_ are safe, but not all. Their activity, while near constant, is focused more down among the rock, rather than up in the open water.

You seem to have activity in the water column well covered with plenty of wrasses, and I know you're looking for active fish, but some movement and interest down near the sandbed or rocks could be generated with some small gobies, perhaps paired with a pistol shrimp.

Other suggestions might be a small group of dartfish - though they spend most of their time kind of hanging in the water column - or an anthias. I've got a pair of Bartlett's in QT, and they're a delight. Constantly on the go, bickering and displaying among themselves, zipping about in almost frantic investigation of any floating particle that _might_ be a snack . . . In my 65 gallon reef, I've got a trio of azure damsels - much less unpleasant than most damselfish, they occupy their time with one another and leave everyone else alone, so they're a thought worth entertaining as well.

Just a few thoughts!

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Hmmm...anthias need several small feeding per day right? Not sure that's right for my situation. Now dartfish is a possibility but how would they fare with wrasses? Not that my wrasses are aggressive, but they are aggesive and fast eaters. Gobies...I have some sand bed corals that I don't want the chore of dusting off daily. Flame angels are great looking but I'm too scared to add an anemone for fear of it going walk-about, so I'd be nervous of a possible polyp muncher
 

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No worries...

I keep a zebra dart and a firefish with five different fairy and flasher wrasses, and everyone seems fat and happy - then again, I do offer several smaller feedings through the day.

Some gobies spit a _lot_ of sand, others just a little. Pistol shrimp ... yeah, those guys are bulldozers.

One other suggestion; what about a royal gramma?

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I also enjoy dwarf angel company, but of course they are a risk to coral.

Chromis are very active and occupy the top of the water column where other fish do not which adds life.

Orchid dottyback are another favorite although the wrasse may not accept -- I'll bet it would work out fine though
 

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A group of scissortail or zebra dartfish, purple tilefish, a group of anthias, or more wrasses.
 

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Their not overly active but Regal Angels I think are very nice fish. Mine stays out a lot more than usual and it's stunning!
 

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