40 Gallon stocking list

DD Corals · Oct 10, 2022

I currently have a 40-gallon with 2 clownfish and I feel like my fishtank is missing fish because my clownfish like to hide in the back of the fishtank all day unless I feed them. Any suggestions on what fish I could get? I was thinking of adding one or a couple of the fish.

Six line wrasse
2 blue green chromis
Royal gramma
Firefish
Yellow watchman goby

Dave1993 · Oct 10, 2022

skip the 6 line

Why is my angel looking like this.

I don’t know what It going on. Do any of you? There are spots that used to be blue that are now gray. His forehead is also grey. Sorry the picture is bad.

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DD Corals · Oct 10, 2022

Dave1993 said:
skip the 6 line

Why is my angel looking like this.

I don’t know what It going on. Do any of you? There are spots that used to be blue that are now gray. His forehead is also grey. Sorry the picture is bad.

www.reef2reef.com

Thanks for the info

shakacuz · Oct 11, 2022

substitute the 6line for a pygmy wrasse or a yellow coris wrasse. everything else is solid.could even ditch the 2 chromis and get an additional fire fish and a court jester goby

LeftyReefer · Oct 11, 2022

maybe a few anthias. mine are always out and about and are nice "busy" fish.

or a springeri damsel would be another good choice.

The Royal Gramma will be fine, but they can also get a little territorial with other fish around their caves.

I'd pass on the six line wrasse.

DD Corals · Oct 11, 2022

Out of all those fish, what fish do you think will be the most active? Like one that will come out often to the front of the fishtank.

jk_s124 · Oct 11, 2022

I love Halichoeres wrasses. Yellow or a Christmas (Halichoeres Claudia) would work in a 40. If you can find a starki damsel, that would be great too. They kind of look like a Pygmy angel but are coral safe. They are reportedly “nice” damsels as well.

DD Corals · Oct 11, 2022

LeftyReefer said:
maybe a few anthias. mine are always out and about and are nice "busy" fish.

or a springeri damsel would be another good choice.

The Royal Gramma will be fine, but they can also get a little territorial with other fish around their caves.

I'd pass on the six line wrasse.

What kind of Anthias would they be? I just looked up anthias and I found a bunch of different types of anthias. Also would I even be able to have anthias in my 40 gallon fishtank?

Mschmidt · Oct 11, 2022

I might skip the chromis, no reason beyond my preference, but they would likely be out and about. a hawk fish might be cool. Mine is always out and about. there are a lot of options, and more opinions.
The clowns likely just found a home and will stay mostly there.
Simply having more fish will help the shy ones come out more. It's a "hide from danger" thing. Mollies aren't afraid to be in the open, and they will graze on algae. I can't wait to get my valentini puffer out of QT and into the display.