last fish for tank ?

karlas · 05-30-2002, 09:14 PM

i want to add that last fish to the tank. ive asked about copperbands and love them but they would wipe out my feather dusters. thought about a flame angel but have heard of to many that harass firefish (have a mated pair). ive been thinking about a coral beauty or some type of reef safe wrasse. does anybody have any ideas? i want someting fairly small, does not harass other docile fish, or eats ornamental shrimps (cleaner, fire) but has lots of color, and does not destroy corals. any opinions appreaciated

karlas · 06-07-2002, 01:29 PM

anybody? nobody? somebody?

Matt Rogers · 06-11-2002, 10:20 AM

Heh. Where'd everybody go?

I think summer is kicking in!

Well I liked my Coral Beauty. It didn't bother any of the corals I had.

That said, I have heard that some may develop a 'taste' for some corals: star polyps, open brains, etc.. and become nippy, but at the same time I have heard that keeping them well fed helps. The majority seem to be fine though and considered reef safe.

In my experience, they are not much of a problem, mellow and beautiful.

karlas · 06-12-2002, 03:23 AM

he thats_crazyhe thats_crazy thought everybody dissapeared thanks for the response

ivyspig · 06-17-2002, 01:06 AM

Hi--All pygmy angels are not really considered reef safe. Sometimes when first introduced to a tank, it can take them several months to discover your corals......trust me--THEY WILL DISCOVER THEM AT SOME POINT!! Pygmy Angels are also a little aggressive. You should try (if you don't have them already) tangs, clowns, gobies, blennies, cardinalfish, wrasses (some reef safe wrasses include : sixline, fairy, coris, and cleaner). A good site to check out that has reef safe fishes listed is www.petswarehouse.com/marinereef.htm
Good Luck!

karlas · 06-17-2002, 02:27 PM

im checking out some of those wrasses that u mention but i did find a reef safe butterfly that does not eat corals its a plankton eater i might check into these more
http://www.themarinecenter.com/thompsoni.htm

Matt Rogers · 06-18-2002, 07:17 AM

A Thompson Butterfly?
That is a new one to me. Cool! Is that from the Red Sea?

I still think a Coral Beauty is a good fish. Ivyspig is being cautious which is a good thing, but I had mine for 3 years without problems and I know others that have had similar success. If you do some searchs on rc, you will see that many have had little to no problems, while a few have. Your choice, but I think to say that they are all bad eventually, is not true.

If you go the butterfly route, just remember what I said about my Butterfly and my Tang and rearrange your rocks a bit prior to adding the fish so that the Tang might be a little less territorial.

karlas · 06-20-2002, 01:45 AM

i do love the butterflies but keep leaning twd the coral beauty or a carpenter wrasse it will be a while anyway but just making sure before buying. maby i can do both since they are both small fish. the carpenter only gets about 3" itself. it will be one of the 2 (or both)

well have to see

karlas · 06-29-2002, 01:11 AM

i think ive decided b/w a coral beauty or carpenter wrasse both are beautiful fish and did a lot of checking shouldnt have a problem with either. it will be a while before buying when i get the extra $$$ but i came down to those choices

karlas · 10-23-2002, 03:50 AM

well i got em the last fish i decided on a mandarin i found one that was very healthy and nice looking. i wanted one before but decided not to but since the tank has been going for over a year and i got a good pod population thats what i ended up with. picked him up yesterday i also got a flower anemone it attached itself right away and took a piece of clam today. so hopefully it does well. the mandarin is out and hunting so he should be ok.