Unique fish on a budget
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TheBackAndForth
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Redtail filefish, goes for about $25-30, you rarely see them and they are super cool and beautiful.
So cool
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absolute terrors. petco carries rolland's in their "assorted damselfish" tanks often. They aren't much different than chromis and i always buy them when i see them
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currently, Im running an 80 frag and nuvo 20 that both could use more stock!
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I had a Hawaiian Whitespotted Puffer (Canthigaster jactator) back in college and loved the little guy. Kept it with a snowflake moray and some triggers. At least back then it was rare for people to keep them. I had seen them in the wild so wanted one and tracked one down online. Looks like it is easier to find now. I'll admit I prefer the look of some of the other tobies (valentini and the blue spot both are stunning to me), but this one is unique.
My dwarf fuzzy just started wolfing down chunks of LRS after a month. Before I was feeding guppies and ghost shrimp. He’s in a tank with a filefish and little powder blue tang. Maybe seeing the tang eat frozen got him interested. Before he only grabbed a few mysis that got caught in the current so they looked alive.Dwarf lionfish; a zebra for $20-30 which you don;t see often, or a fuzzy for $30-40. Just do your research on feeding challenges.
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The fuzzy dwarf is super cool
What do you consider affordable? Also what type of tank and its tankmates? Some are much more coral appropriate than others, and others can be down right nasty to some types of fish. Also their tank size requirements vary greatly. Dwarf angels other than the extraordinary are affordable.
Some like a lemon peel can be a bit aggressive and likely to nip corals. My coral beauty was around $50 i think, i honestly don’t remember the exact price, not uncommon but a very pretty fish that fingers crossed hasnt bothered my corals [emoji23]
Others would be lamarks angel or a black velvet angel. Lamarks would be the first choice between the two for temperament, coral behavior, size and number of keepers who successfully keep. But both are lower priced though.
My next build was going with a pair of multibar angels expecting to be about 2-300 just for them.
There are some dwarf angels that fit in your 80, but like all angels I would not consider any of them totally reef safe. One of the most popular, the coral beauty, you can get for around $40.
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I have a bicolor right now that’s about 4 years old now (at least prior to collection). He has survived two crashes and many moves. He’s only nippy to favia, which I keep in the 20 instead.
I ordered a grey Poma juvi on live aquaria with the other order, but he/she arrived nearly dead. I’m afraid to try another given how sensitive the fish was. I dislike taking fish out of the ocean that can’t don’t do well in captivity, and I wonder if that genus is just too stressed (interestly though, I have a Singapore that has been super hardy and easy to keep. LFS owner told me she had had him for 4 months and couldn’t sell him—and lowkey their saltwater fish section is awful, so I figured this was a special case)
If angels aren’t too picky and don’t bother stony corals, I don’t mind.
TheBackAndForth
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I really like lamarcks.. maybe that is the way to go.
I love potters and regal’s... but obviously that just seems like an expensive and sad death in most cases
I have a bicolor that has been by my side through thick and thin. They are beautiful fish, and mine has been very hardy.
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