What's that one fish you just HAVE to have in your reef tank?

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Royal gramma and clownfish pair. I'm trying to find more interesting clowns than the ocellaris, so I might try a pair of bicinctus.

 

[ABQ_CHRIS]

Cryptic Wrasse was my must have. Happy with her. She gets along with everyone and those eyes are striking.

 

[ralphb305]

flame angel

 

[skip0211]

flame angel

2 large Bristle Tail Filefish… I have a severe Majano infestation..

 

[ComfortRacing]

Def a powder blue tang

 

[Joe.D]

Marine Betta

I’m with you on the Marine Betta - it’s on my list! They are so cool looking!

I have a 73 gallon, so I’m somewhat limited in my overall choices. My wife is having a hard time understanding that 73 gallons is not a large tank.

Already have the obligatory pair of clowns (an Oscellaris and a Da Vinci - which I wish I would have gotten 2 of in hindsight) and the Watchman Goby/Tiger Pistol Shrimp. Also on my must have list (and possibly my next fish), a Whitetail Bristletooth Tang! Thought about Tomini (and they are a lot less $), but the Whitetail just looks way cooler to me.

 

[CoralB]

A mandarin for me. Such a beautiful creature

Just a note of interest you may or may not know but they are aquaculturing these and they actually to my surprise are raised eating pellet food . The ones I saw here in Orlando fl. were expensive but given that they are aquacultured and eating pellet seems like it might be worth the cost given the alternative of keeping a culture of pods growing .

 

[Joe.D]

Royal gramma and clownfish pair. I'm trying to find more interesting clowns than the ocellaris, so I might try a pair of bicinctus.

As I mentioned in another post - I love the Da Vinci’s. Here’s mine!

 

[CoralB]

Mine would have to be getting another NASO Tang and a much bigger tank

 

[CoralB]

Cryptic Wrasse was my must have. Happy with her. She gets along with everyone and those eyes are striking.

I have one and couldn’t have a tank without one .

 

[katonge]

Wife wanted Dory for ages, I keep telling her it won't fit in our 50G. Been using that as a reason to eventually drop the 3k - 4k on a big tank setup lol.

Love my Dory!

 

[crezguy]

I love to have two fish. One is a hawk and other one mandarin. Lovely ones .

 

[doubleshot00]

scopas tang for me

This. Work horse and great personality. The dad of the tank.

But if you ask my wife its stupid clown fish.

My kids would say falco hawk aka “Whatspoppin”

 

[katonge]

Just a note of interest you may or may not know but they are aquaculturing these and they actually to my surprise are raised eating pellet food . The ones I saw here in Orlando fl. were expensive but given that they are aquacultured and eating pellet seems like it might be worth the cost given the alternative of keeping a culture of pods growing .

Yup. I got a pair from Biota. Really small when they arrived which caused a lot of anxiety but doing very well & eating well.

 

[katonge]

My emperor angel

 

[bigbugoutfitters]

Wrasses, and dusky wrasse in particular.

 

[Heather Kastory]

I have 3..blonde naso tang, melanaurus and Bella goby..can't possibly pick one! Excuse the awful pic took it yesterday for fun.

 

[firechild]

A rabbitfish (definitely not any of the fox faces ). Ideally it would always be a bluespot (S. corallinus over S. tetrazonus) but given they're hard to find, I have kept a couple of other species. I currently have a masked rabbitfish in my main tank.

 

[CoralB]

Yup. I got a pair from Biota. Really small when they arrived which caused a lot of anxiety but doing very well & eating well.

Can I ask what you paid and which strain you were able to get ?

 

[Low Tech Reefer]

For me, it's a six line wrasse. I've never had one that was aggressive, I think they get a bad rap.