Fish that you want but you can't have

[Chelsey]

In this hobby there are many fish that we just can't keep for various reasons, whether it be tank size or just too difficult. What fish do you want to see in your tank but can't? I have a few

Potters Angel (I've tried several and they just won't live)
Resplendens Angel (waiting for RCT to come back )
Interruptus angel
Axelrod's Clown blenny (never seen any, not anywhere)

 

[edwing206]

Gem tang, black tang, almost any cool tang. Exquisite butterfly, moorish Idol. WAAAAAY too many cool fish that I can't/Can't be kept.

 

[Azurel]

Resplendens Angel (waiting for RCT to come back )
Interruptus angel

I agree with these 2 as well......2 of my favorites

 

[currentking]

any nice wrasse....cant keep them, my 6line kills them.......

 

[Chelsey]

Is RCT going to come back? I have their site bookmarked but I haven't seen anything lately.

 

[Hypertek99]

What's RCT??? Post pics of these fishes. That would be awesome

 

[jabol]

Potter's angel - also my favorite...my tank is too small though

 

[143gadgets]

Resplendens Angel (waiting for RCT to come back )
Interruptus angel

But my all time favorite is a Peppermint Angel.

 

[143gadgets]

What's RCT??? Post pics of these fishes. That would be awesome

I think it will be a while before RCT is back up if they come back. I know he sold some of his breeding pairs some time ago. A local here 'Copps' bought a couple of the pairs and has them in their own reefs. I have seen them and they are BEAUTIFUL fish. Would love to get some!

 

[fishes2889]

a big group of flasher wrasses.....

 

[edwing206]

You live close to John? His tanks are amazing. Seen the pics on RC. He always has awesome angels.

 

[surfn]

i'm thinking about putting a Naso Tang in my tank to help control some of this dictoya and bubble alage. but can't find one smaller than 6" and less than $100 locally.....

other than that, I'd like to put in a leopard wrasse.......but if i do that I'll have to order one from LiveAquaria.....b/c I'm not willing to pay $120 for one at our LFS.

would also like a diamond goby, they are cheap and easy to find....but i don't want it to cover up all my frags laying the sand bed as i've had them do in the past.

would also like a yasha haze paired with a striped pistol shrimp. but also not willing to pay $100+ for an extreamely small pair from the LFS.......so that would be another LiveAquaria order.



so in the end.....I'll probably just end up with something reasonable, like a mimic tang or something.

 

[143gadgets]

You live close to John? His tanks are amazing. Seen the pics on RC. He always has awesome angels.

Yup! He is in VA and I'm in DC. Not far at all. He has some great tanks. I took pics of hem when he won "Tank of the Month" in our local club.

 

[143gadgets]

http://www.wamas.org/totm_previous.php?prev=totm-2007-02.html

 

[edwing206]

Wow, great shots man. Do you have any of his rare angels?

 

[143gadgets]

Here are a couple. Hope John doesn't mind.

 

[NapoliNewJersey]

Here are a couple. Hope John doesn't mind.

What kind are these?

 

[Hypertek99]

The rare kind. LOL

 

[detguy123]

the blood stain fairy wrasse but they just don't make it into the trade and i would love to keep purple queen anthias but they are very hard to keep long term

 

[twon8]

In this hobby there are many fish that we just can't keep for various reasons, whether it be tank size or just too difficult. What fish do you want to see in your tank but can't? I have a few

Potters Angel (I've tried several and they just won't live)
Resplendens Angel (waiting for RCT to come back )
Interruptus angel
Axelrod's Clown blenny (never seen any, not anywhere)

there is a beautiful pair of potte'rs at the lfs, they came out of a 220 broken down due to job transfer. they pick at almost every coral, they've destroyed a frogspawn and a few sps.

they are vibrant blue and red, i've never seen a pair as pretty.