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I'd like to add a few more fish to my system. My tank is SPS dominant but has LPS (acans, chalices, favia etc.), and Zoas/Palys as well.

I like a tank with lots of fish, I just don't like reef tanks where you can't even spot the fish. Here's my current list

Sailfin tang
Yellow Tang
Foxface
2 algae Blennys
2 of ORA's fangtooth blennys
2 Black Ocellaris clowns
flame angel
Anampses meleagrides wrasse

So 11 fish. The tank is 4' x 3' x 2', 160 gal when figuring from ID. So its a wide tank. I would love an achilles but think another tang wouldn't work well since the others would abuse it and a sensitive one wouldn't be the best choice. My newest additions were the fangtooth blennys from ORA and I love them, always in the open feeding right from the start.

I was thinking a pair of pyramid butterflys but not to sure? Any other ideas?
 

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character: jawfish, midas blenny (nope, you have too many other blennys)
mandarin (you have enough space to host a good ammount of pods)
uniqueness: purple tilefish, if you have a lid.
 
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No lid, its a euro-braced open top with a sfiligoi T5 fixture above. My mystery wrasse jumped after a year :( The mandarin would be cool, I think ORA is releasing some soon that would be very tempting.
 

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yep I know where you can buy the heat resistant mesh from also. here's what we did and I love it:)
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Love to see those Triggers in the Reef...

Pinktail, Sargassm, Crosshatch....

or a shoaling dither fish grouping would look nice:

Anthias, Cardinals, Chromis
 

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I agree with the shoal. Anthias, chromis, firefish, etc.
Dussumieri tang. I love mine. :) Mine gets along very well with non acanthurus tangs.
 
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I added a pink tail trigger today along with a small (2.5") sohal. I realize the sohal will probably need a bigger tank in the years to come but in all reality I am not happy with my tank anyhow. I should have gone 6' x 3' x 2' so will probably upgrade in the coming year or so. The pink tail trigger I am hoping won't bother my Acans or clams, so far he has just been hiding in the rock work but he's only been home for a few hours. I'd still like to add a school of chromis or something as well.

Thanks for the ideas.
 

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