Top 3 Dream Fish!

[Kmsutows]

He’s beautiful! How large do they get? And would false percula become a meal? Lol

I have always had clowns with him and bought them as babies. He is also housed with very small anthias and has never chased or tried to eat anything. I believe 6" max. Mine can't be any more than that and it's oldd

 

[ArowanaLover1902]

1. Green moray eel (pair) (It'd be amazing to have a pair of these huge eels, but I'd need a massive aquarium for them to be happy)
2. Warty frogfish
3. Mandarin (I'm raising a huge refugium so I can buy one soon)

Inverts (I know these aren't in the thread, but thought I'd share)
1. Octopus (because obviously)
2. Cutlefish (again, obviously)
3. Pistol shrimp queen with drones (a couple types of pistol shrimp have huge colonies in giant sponges, even featuring a queen and castes. It would be sooooo fun to feed).

 

[shrimped]

|Fish|
1. Male Blue Stripe Tamarin Wrasse
2. Darwin's Jawfish (I love Jawfish)
3. Mushroom Coral Pipefish

|Invert|
1. Calcinus Minutus
2. Emperor Shrimp with Nudibranch
3. Feather Star

 

[EastSideBAy]

1) Yellow Anthias
2) Super Male Lineatus Wrasse
3) Candy Stripe Basselet (if it wasn't so cyptic)

 

[radiata]

I want a trio of Larvatus Butterflies (https://www.google.com/search?q=lar...33PvXAhWjhOAKHS40Bw8QiR4I6gI&biw=1586&bih=879) and a large enough stony feef to keep them well fed. If that doesn't work out, Plan B is to have my ashes scattered on the Red Sea...

 

[ca1ore]

Dream fish implies those that I will never own. Many of my favorites I have or have had in the past. My dream then would be the peppermint angel, venustus/multibar hybrid and a Tygerpyge. All dwarf Angels funnily enough.

 

[Maritimer]

Well, if you get yourself a venusta, a multifasciatus ... and a plankton net ... you might be able to pull one of those off . . .

That hybrid is certainly one crazy fish!

~Bruce

 

[Bcdjoe]

Mine would be
1 interuptis angle. Had two and both didn’t make it
2 joculator angle
3 gem tang

 

[7hogwarts]

Peppermint Angel
Dr Suess soapfish
Sea Dragon

I have other fish on my list of wishful thinking, but they aren't reef safe.

 

[code4]

Quoy's parrotfish ... in my display.

Regal angelfish ... in QT; fingers crossed!

Last is kind of a tossup between two personalities that couldn't be more different - Copperband butterfly and Powderblue tang.

There are others, for sure . . .

~Bruce

How is the angel doing? Crossing fingers for you. Mine is only about 3 inches but doing well. Had it since May.

Shelley

 

[Ramiro Casal]

My dream fish are the
diamond goby
Miami white clown
and the flame angel
already have a diamond goby and hopefully I can get the other 2 early 2018

 

[Maritimer]

How is the angel doing?

She's a li'l shy, but I think she's ready (or at least I think she's _sure_ she's ready!) for the display. She eats everything I throw in the water, and is among the most vibrant personalities of any fish I've worked with:


~Bruce

 

[Zack K]

Bruce I love your QT. Looks better than most tanks[emoji23] mine included

 

[Maritimer]

Honestly, probably too much stuff in there ... food & detritus get stuck under it. It does give the fish a place to explore, and to hide from passers-by, though.

Thanks!

~Bruce

 

[code4]

Bruce so glad to hear she is doing good. ;Happy Mine is not shy at all. Actually that is how I knew when her eye became infected. She started to hide and not come out for food. Some antibiotics fixed her up though. My angel, Wishbone, can be a bit mean to new fish her size.

She is beautiful! And I also probably put to much in my observation tank. First quarantine tanks. Then observation for a couple of months. How large is she? Here is to ours living long lives.

Shelley

 

[Maritimer]

She's ... five or six inches?

She's not sitting still to be measured! Her gill spines are still short, and her body hasn't elongated like some big males I've seen, so . . . "she".

~Bruce

 

[Daniel@R2R]

So my three are the

• Japanese Swallowtail Angel
• Dussumieri Tang
  
• and whatever kind of wrasse these guys are...

 

[BigJim]

I don't think I would ever pay the price for the first two on the list, and I don't see myself ever having a 300+ gallon fowlr for the last one.

lennardi wrasse
blue striped tamarin wrasse
clown trigger

 

[code4]

She's ... five or six inches?

She's not sitting still to be measured! Her gill spines are still short, and her body hasn't elongated like some big males I've seen, so . . . "she".

~Bruce

I will have to watch mine more closely for the gill spines. Mine is not as colorful as some photos.

Shelley

 

[Maritimer]

I will have to watch mine more closely for the gill spines. Mine is not as colorful as some photos.

Shelley

As angels mature, they change gender - juvenile to female to male - and as they go from female to male, their gill spines and bodies often elongate.

Some of them do change color (Genicanthus, scribbled and Centropyge interruptus come to mind), but others not so much.

~Bruce