What are your favorite rock dwelling small reef fish

[jeep and goose]

Does anyone have some reccomendations for rock dwellers for my 100 gal reef. Currently I have and am planning to get mostly just mid water species (gray and bicolor chromis, more chill damsels (including clowns), cardinals, dartfish maybe some wrasses, a female blue jaw trigger probably some butterflies, angels (maybe just one), etc) . The only bottom dweller is a pink spot goby. Thinking a lot of smaller guys like plectranthias, neon goby maybe, I really want a red weever Sand hopper parapercis thing (idk a good common name for it) I’m slightly worried about it turning in fish though. Dragonets are also nice, and pipefish or shrimp fish if I can figure out how to make them not get outcompeted I know there’s a lot of other options I’m just kinda drawing blanks right now.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

My yellow watchman always hung out around his cave!

 

[jeep and goose]

My yellow watchman always hung out around his cave!

I kinda want to get another watchman I’ve heard about it going bad though. I might get a pink spot to pair up

 

[RFLKPTR]

Following! Are you setting up a high flow tank? You named some potentially not very reef safe fish also... So just keep in mind some might develop a taste for whatever corals you have.

 

[Paul B]

Dwarf Waspfish

 

[ScottJ]

My Springer's Dottyback is very nice. Model citizen, keeps the bristle worm population from getting out of hand, very good looking, and captive bred.

 

[Quietman]

Tail spot blenny. Tons of personality and is in and out of any little cave he can find all the time. Also does a bit of algae control.

 

[jeep and goose]

Following! Are you setting up a high flow tank? You named some potentially not very reef safe fish also... So just keep in mind some might develop a taste for whatever corals you have.

Yeah it’s decent flow, I have a little area for acropora and other branchy stony corals right under the return and the rest is just a bunch of soft coral right now. Butterfly wise I think I’m only going for zoster and pyramid, maybe longnose or if I get really rich one of those deep water ones. I am Also thinking about getting a stripey but they’re so expensive

 

[BeanAnimal]

Many gobies and blennies

With caution:
Croucher Gobies
Various Hawkfish

 

[BryanM]

Does anyone have some reccomendations for rock dwellers for my 100 gal reef. Currently I have and am planning to get mostly just mid water species (gray and bicolor chromis, more chill damsels (including clowns), cardinals, dartfish maybe some wrasses, a female blue jaw trigger probably some butterflies, angels (maybe just one), etc) . The only bottom dweller is a pink spot goby. Thinking a lot of smaller guys like plectranthias, neon goby maybe, I really want a red weever Sand hopper parapercis thing (idk a good common name for it) I’m slightly worried about it turning in fish though. Dragonets are also nice, and pipefish or shrimp fish if I can figure out how to make them not get outcompeted I know there’s a lot of other options I’m just kinda drawing blanks right now.

You can find my lawnmower blenny roaming the rockscape, sometimes perched on my toadstool, etc.

 

[jeep and goose]

Also I kinda mean rock and bottom dwellers like anything that fits that niche

 

[winzig]

mandarin or possum wrasse

 

[Bear22]

Also I kinda mean rock and bottom dwellers like anything that fits that niche

Most of the gobies would check both these boxes. Except maybe the Stonogobiops species, they tend to stay in one place and not move once settled in.

My suggestion(s) would be the Green-banded goby or Yellow Clown goby.

 

[fandaga]

yellow headed jawfish