So my fiancee's mom just got a 40 gallon bowfront tank and everything to go with. Nothing has been set up yet, the tank doesn't have water, sand or rock yet ( were waiting to rearrange her room to find a nice spot for it) and I just wanted to bring her some fish options. She really likes colourful fish and one of the ones she REALLY wants to add is a blenny of sorts. We currently have a midas blenny in our tank and she wants different fish in her tank so a midas is kinda off the table. If anyone has any good suggestions and what fish should go in first that would be really helpful! Thanks for all your help!
40 gallon stocking options
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At liveaquaria you can get compatibility charts and recommended tank size for said fish.
A tailspot blenny would be a small, colorful blenny.
Look into:
Firefish
clowns
royal gramma
chalk bass
longnose hawk
possum wrasse
yellow watchman goby
Look into:
Firefish
clowns
royal gramma
chalk bass
longnose hawk
possum wrasse
yellow watchman goby
Excellent choice, I love those fish, under rated and overlooked, but can be difficult to get eating. If you are lucky enough to get one eating good then fine, otherwise you may have to start with live brine shrimp and live black worms, they will even eat live ghost shrimp. If you go with a valentini puffer, check out the saddle or leopard, they stay smaller and are less aggressive; the blue spot gets larger and more aggressive.
Tank is too small for the matted filefish, cowfish, or ghost ribbon eel.
Here's my redtail filefish
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Lots of Blennies that would work in a 40 gallon. Among my favorites:
Forktail Blenny
Harptail Blenny
Starry Blenny
Do you happen to know the dimensions on the 40 bowfront as that would help us with the rest of the stock list.
I would never put those fish in her tank, those are in mine alone and are currently moving to 120 gallon
I'll definitely measure when I get home, right now I'm out getting some food
Well she decided on a fork tail blenny and shes going to put a coloured filefish... she wants to get a hawk nose but we told her that needs to go in last and be the last fish she puts in
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it's near impossible to get a sustainable breeding population to keep a Mandarin long term in a tank of that size.
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That's just it, most can't afford to keep up with the time table for feeding or the cost of repeatedly dosing pods.
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Some of the most colorful fish for nano tanks in my opinion include;
Royal Gramma (A few other basslets as well)
Canary Blenny
Midas Blenny
Orchid Dottyback
Valentini Puffer
A few filefish species work
Dwarf Angels for sure!! (Flame, Bicolor, Eibli, Pygmy, Potters, the list goes on)
Clownfish
Starki Or Springers Damsels
Sand Sifting Gobies (Diamond's are pretty colorful)
Firefish
Clown Gobies (Many colors)
Royal Gramma (A few other basslets as well)
Canary Blenny
Midas Blenny
Orchid Dottyback
Valentini Puffer
A few filefish species work
Dwarf Angels for sure!! (Flame, Bicolor, Eibli, Pygmy, Potters, the list goes on)
Clownfish
Starki Or Springers Damsels
Sand Sifting Gobies (Diamond's are pretty colorful)
Firefish
Clown Gobies (Many colors)
