Help me pick my next fish!

[beesnreefs]

It’s time to add a fish to up my bio-load a bit…and because fish are fun

I’ve got a 65 gallon mixed feed with several established LPS and a few SPS.

Current fish:
White-tailed bristletooth tang
Melanurus wrasse
Pink Pygmy wrasse
Yellow assessor basslet
Royal gramma

Would love to add just one more cool fish to the bunch. Someone fun who will fit in to this group in this size tank.

What would YOU get?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Copperband butterly
pyrmaid butterfly
yellow coris wrasse
Flame angel
marine betta

 

[jtf74]

bicolor angel

 

[blaxsun]

+1 for marine betta or flame angel.
Other considerations: Coral beauty angel, flame hawkfish, midas blenny, azure damsel, sixline wrasse.

 

[Rtaylor]

 

[Jeffcb]

A hawk fish. Flames are way cool but can be aggressive. I enjoy my Long Nose Hawk Fish. Quite a personality in his pin striped suite.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Fourmanoiri tilefish, Helfrichi firefish, Fathead Anthias, skunk tilefish, and Pintail Fairy Wrasse are all great fish. Honestly the rhomboid fairy and lot of other fairy wrasses are as well.

 

[jtf74]

A hawk fish. Flames are way cool but can be aggressive. I enjoy my Long Nose Hawk Fish. Quite a personality in his pin striped suite.

Yeah a flame might cause trouble in a 60

 

[blaxsun]

Yeah a flame might cause trouble in a 60

As long as it's the only dwarf angel it should be fine (my dwarf angels did perfectly fine in their 25-gallon tanks). A coral beauty is another alternative.

 

[jtf74]

My flame is aggressive with my large maroon female chases my damsels has to be put in check with a show of the scalpel by my hippo tang in a 300 gallon..

 

[CookieRdReef]

Captive imbred clowfish to host your powerheads? Coral Beauty are great. Longnose Hawkfish or a blenny (Midas, Bicolor) are funny characters.

 

[jaredrah777]

copperband!

 

[i cant think]

Nothing, due to the size the current fish will get and it’s only a 3’ tank. The current fish will also get active and aggressive especially the White Tail and the Melanurus. If I HAD to get something and there was no other option it would be out of;
A tilefish (Any of them)
A Choati leopard wrasse (After a lot more research)
A small butterfly (CBBs get too big)

 

[beesnreefs]

Nothing, due to the size the current fish will get and it’s only a 3’ tank. The current fish will also get active and aggressive especially the White Tail and the Melanurus. If I HAD to get something and there was no other option it would be out of;
A tilefish (Any of them)
A Choati leopard wrasse (After a lot more research)
A small butterfly (CBBs get too big)

What about a small pair of bonded clowns?


FWIW, whenever I add fish I use an acclimation box for the first few days.

 

[BanjoBandito]

I've seen your posts, I have a near empty 80 gallon cube style w/ sump and I want one so bad. I'm worried about it nipping an eventual clam and the SPS though. Super cool. I also run "HIGH FLOW" so that's a concern.

 

[BanjoBandito]

You should get a flame hawkfish! Or maybe a longnose! They are bottom dwellers and are super cool and fun.

 

[Dave1993]

midas blenny

 

[i cant think]

What about a small pair of bonded clowns?


FWIW, whenever I add fish I use an acclimation box for the first few days.

I’d say they get too aggressive for the current inhabitants. My Black Photon is a nightmare in a 4’x2’x18” tank.

 

[beesnreefs]

I’d say they get too aggressive for the current inhabitants. My Black Photon is a nightmare in a 4’x2’x18” tank.

The pair of clowns will go after the other fish?

 

[i cant think]

The pair of clowns will go after the other fish?

Potentially yes