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Potters Angelfish
Cubicus Box Fish
Pearlscale Butterflyfish
Madagascar Spotted Croucher Goby
Potters angel, or most dwarf angels are a good option. Some will go after corals but my experience with them has been good so far. Box fish gets way to big, over a foot long. Pearl scale butterfly is gonna have a feast on any coral except some sps. croucher goby is also a good option not really a centerpiece in my opinion but super cool fish.
 

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You can get a smaller tang for it. If its a 4 footer 66 gallon you can go for even purple tang or yellow tang untill for over 4-5 years.
A male Lyretail Anthis is great safe choice of center peice also..
 

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I had no idea the box fish got that big ! That’s amazing !!

I mean now I want a giant tank with a giant square balloon in it

Potters angel, or most dwarf angels are a good option. Some will go after corals but my experience with them has been good so far. Box fish gets way to big, over a foot long. Pearl scale butterfly is gonna have a feast on any coral except some sps. croucher goby is also a good option not really a centerpiece in my opinion but super cool fish.
 

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In a 66ish tank, assuming 18"X18"X36", you will have plenty of option. You should have a tight cover, then flasher and fairy wrasse have some of the most beautiful fish that is suitable for this tank. They jump so cover is a must.
Flame angel pair, or other dwarf angels are good choice for a 65 gal tank. Clown fish and anemone, or Mandarin.

Words of caution: Mandarin only eat live food, tiny crustacean in sand and rock. The tank must be setup to facilitate this or else they won't live. There are many people will state that they can feed Mandarin, and they don't have to have live food. They can but not without huge effort that I don't want to spend. Fishes that are good hunters will out compete Mandarin for food, thus starve them. Dwarf angels, certain wrasse must be avoid in a smallish tank, your tank, with mandarin in it.
Anemone are not the easiest animals to keep alive, especially host anemones for Percula or Ocellaris Clowns. You can keep them with non natural host, like BTA (E. quadricolor) but interaction between clowns and non natural hosts are not anywhere near as good as with natural hosts.


Here are two of my wrasse, Yellow Fin Flasher and Carpenter Flasher
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and McCosker Flasher
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You may also want to add a Flame angel pair
Male
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Female
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INSTEAD of Angel, you may want to add a Mandarin Male. You don't have a big enough tank for a pair of mandarin, but if you set your tank up correctly and not have food competitors, you can keep one. Here is my Male
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My female
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A. percula pair and their anemone is always the fish people see when they look at your tank.
A. percula in my Magnifica
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I had no idea the box fish got that big ! That’s amazing !!

I mean now I want a giant tank with a giant square balloon in it
That is the dream tank for sure. A giant yellow cube that has the personality of a puppy lol
 

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If you have sand in your tank, then consider these species of wrasses. They are food competitor of Mandarin and good at get rid of pest in your tank
One of the Leopards, or a Melanurus Wrasse.
My Melanurus is not a terminal male, but still very beautiful, he will get more colorful as he mature. If you want a picture of a mature, super male, you got to do a internet search.
Black Leopard Female
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Black Leopard Male
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Meleagris Leopard female
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Ornate Leopard
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Potter leopard male
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Melanurus Wrasse
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Pintail/lunate/brunneus fairy wrasse
If you like boxfish then ostracion solorensis is one of the smaller species only reaching 5 inches
Prognathodes aculeatus
Chaetodon burgessi
Pretty much any dwarf angel is cool, though some are quite challenging like the colins, multibar, golden and venusta, so id avoid those unless you have an interest in them and have a very mature tank.
A pair of radial filefish is quite unique, but may be bland for a showstopper, but very cute and intelligent species (i assume from having their bristletail relative)
 

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I know a lot of people say bad things about dog face puffers but mine gets along with everything in my tank.

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Mandarins are actually pretty easy once you get past the first month or so of ownership. Once they take frozen foods, they become like any other fish in the tank. It also helps not having a ton of fish that will take food off the bottom such as wrasses and not expecting them to come to the surface to eat, because they probably won’t. I’ve kept mine for quite some time now with a sixline, a bunch of azure damsels, a clown pair and a flame angel with no problem. Literally all I do now is dump in a thawed cube of brine shrimp each day with the pumps off for ten minutes. I woudn’t be afraid of keeping them, so long as you’re prepared with lots of small food options right of the bat. IMO, if you’re expecting just pods to sustain them, you’ll eventually lose that battle. It’s really not that hard to get them trained on frozen food.
 

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The Toby puffers are also cute and much smaller and would be very suitable for your size tank. Midas blennies are a really cool fish and I agree with the different wrasses that were suggested.
 

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this guy is the meanest in my tank
Is that what he is a royal gramm, I call him a royal pain in my.....lol.... Yeah very mean to all the fish always attacking my file fish and really everyone else.
 

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