30 Gallon Species Specific Tank.

CalsReef2020 · Mar 22, 2022

Looking for some ideas!!

I have a 30 gallon reef aquarium that crashed a few months ago, lost everything except 2 clowns that I have since moved to another tank.

The tank is much better and I am now considering stocking it again, but I want to do a species specific tank.

Any Suggestions??

Coralreefer1 · Mar 22, 2022

Bubble Tip Anemone and a pair of designer Clownfish or school of Cardinalfish or Seahorses or Firefish to start

KeepSwimming · Mar 22, 2022

Splendid dottyback is a smallish fish with a ton of personality. Mine interacts with me more than any other fish I have.

CalsReef2020 · Mar 23, 2022

Coralreefer1 said:
Bubble Tip Anemone and a pair of designer Clownfish or school of Cardinalfish or Seahorses or Firefish to start

I will definitely look into the clownfish and anemones. I have already done the seahorses, dwarfs to be exact. That was a lot of fun, but it came to be to much work.

CalsReef2020 · Mar 23, 2022

3dogs2fish said:
Splendid dottyback is a smallish fish with a ton of personality. Mine interacts with me more than any other fish I have.

Never heard of it. Beautiful fish though. Will definitely be doing more research on this.
Thank you!!

Timfish · Mar 23, 2022

A tank with just different color forms of frogspawn would be pretty cool. your clowns should host them and you might be able to add a couple juvinile clowns with different colors/patterns

Anemone_Fanatic · Mar 23, 2022

A small group of yellowfaced pike blennies would be good. They aren't the prettiest fish, but they have interesting behavior, and look like tiny little dragons. Just be sure to have a lid on the tank. You could also have a school of trimma or eviota gobies. Biota has captive bred them, and you could fit in maybe 6-10 of them. If you have the time to feed them, you could keep a leaf scorpionfish, wartskin anglerfish, or maybe a coral croucher. I hope that this helps.

Captain Redbeard · Mar 23, 2022

A non photosynthetic tank might be cool

CalsReef2020 · Mar 23, 2022

Anemone_Fanatic said:
A small group of yellowfaced pike blennies would be good. They aren't the prettiest fish, but they have interesting behavior, and look like tiny little dragons. Just be sure to have a lid on the tank. You could also have a school of trimma or eviota gobies. Biota has captive bred them, and you could fit in maybe 6-10 of them. If you have the time to feed them, you could keep a leaf scorpionfish, wartskin anglerfish, or maybe a coral croucher. I hope that this helps.

Wow!!
Will definitely have to dig deeper into these ideas.

stovenut · Mar 23, 2022

ANGLER!!!!! You can still grow corals in the tank. But no inverts. Anglers often need their own tank because they can eat any fish that can possibly fit into their mouth. Feeding time would always be an event. That would be a dope tank!

CalsReef2020 · Mar 23, 2022

stovenut said:
ANGLER!!!!! You can still grow corals in the tank. But no inverts. Anglers often need their own tank because they can eat any fish that can possibly fit into their mouth. Feeding time would always be an event. That would be a dope tank!

I LOVE corals, so being able to have such a cool fish and corals would be an amazing tank!
Thanks for the idea!

stovenut · Mar 23, 2022

CalsReef2020 said:
I LOVE corals, so being able to have such a cool fish and corals would be an amazing tank!
Thanks for the idea!

There are often really cool anglers on liveaquaria's divers den. I saw 2 there yesterday. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/show-off-your-angler-fish.200469/
Check out this thread to see an amazing variety of colors and species.