Nano Reef fish with big personality

[hroberge]

Looking for some community input on great little nano reef fish with big personalities. I’m a big fan of gobies and blennys. So far the Tailspot blenny. What would you add ?

 

[GHOSTLY]

Hear me out. Biota Mandarin goby. Super cute personality, eats pellets and anything else, and it ranges from 90 to 150

 

[BanjoBandito]

If you only want 1 fish, get a frog fish. I have a neon goby, pistol shrimp/watchman goby pair and geometric pygmy hawk in my nano (12 gallons). All have super cool personalities. My plan is eventually to move everything to a larger tank and go frog fish in the nano. The obvious answer is A CLOWNFISH. lol.

 

[Megability]

I tail-spot blennys ;)

 

[SchrutesReefs]

I tail-spot blennys ;)

2nd this. My tailspot is like an improv comedian.

 

[fishface NJ]

Exquisite Firefish or the Helfrichi; Hector's Goby, Pajama Cardinalfish

 

[James_O]

How big is the tank?

 

[SchrutesReefs]

How big is the tank?

Solid question. Especially since the nano size ranges across a 30-40 gallon difference.

 

[hroberge]

How big is the tank?

20 gal JBJ cube , green mandarin, yellow clown goby, black false percula clown and a white spot boxfish and mostly LPS and soft corals

 

[BanjoBandito]

20 gal JBJ cube , green mandarin, yellow clown goby, black false percula clown and a white spot boxfish and mostly LPS and soft corals

Ostracion meleagris?

 

[hroberge]

Ostracion meleagris?

Good choice I just added one. Eats and eats and eats great fish. Had to look up the name on google lol. Have you kept these successfully in the past ?

 

[MaxTremors]

If you only want 1 fish, get a frog fish. I have a neon goby, pistol shrimp/watchman goby pair and geometric pygmy hawk in my nano (12 gallons). All have super cool personalities. My plan is eventually to move everything to a larger tank and go frog fish in the nano. The obvious answer is A CLOWNFISH. lol.

IMO, 12 gallons isn’t big enough for a frog fish. They are messy fish and require a lot of filtration and water volume to handle the ‘nutrients’ that they ‘release’ (lol) into the water.

 

[RoboRabbit89]

Definitely goby/pistol. Watching the pistol bull doze all day is super cool.

 

[Ro Bow]

jawfish, pygmy coral grouchers, yellow banded possum wrasse!

 

[CMMorgan]

Exquisite Firefish or the Helfrichi; Hector's Goby, Pajama Cardinalfish

Blech. I have a pair of PJ's... Most boring fish in my tank. I'll give you a high 5 on the fire fish though... And a pass on the PJ's because we're "neighbors".

 

[Lindaanne60]

Hear me out. Biota Mandarin goby. Super cute personality, eats pellets and anything else, and it ranges from 90 to 150

Yes i have one from Biota too. Great fish!

 

[Lindaanne60]

jawfish, pygmy coral grouchers, yellow banded possum wrasse!

Yes I too love my yellow banded possum wrasse
. Great fish.

 

[RalphTech]

I like the goby/pistol relationship and can watch them interact forever. The loud snap is chilling.
But for personality I choose the clown face goby. He sits on everything and digs himself. Eats whatever floats by and is a calm little tank mate.

 

[Robert Binz]

I like the goby/pistol relationship and can watch them interact forever. The loud snap is chilling.
But for personality I choose the clown face goby. He sits on everything and digs himself. Eats whatever floats by and is a calm little tank mate.

I’d be all over it without the loud snaps

 

[bondsgot73]

Looking to add 1 more fish to my 13.5 Evo. At the moment I have a swissguard basslet, rainford (court jester) goby, and a fire shrimp. Open to suggestions!