Advice on new fish additions

[Galeno rocha]

Greetings!
I have a 80 G overall system with sump. Display is 4,26x1.5x1.5 ft with plenty of live rock and hiding space. The tank os fairly new without much pods and such. I also can only feed once a day. Mostly softies and LPS, but I plan to add SPS. And no invertebrates besides corals

Current stock: a pair of ocellaris clows, one azure damsel, one bicolor blenny and one green chromis.

I would welcome advice on new fish to add.

The conditions would be such: nano fish only, 100 % reef safe, compatible with current live stock, widely available (where I live we get only the most basic fish).

Also preferable would be colorful fish and ones that could more easily bear a quarantine with Copper.

Sorry about being so demanding, but I mostly wanna avoid fish death. Thanks in advance.

 

[Idoc]

You have several options of possible peaceful fish...gobies, bengaii cardinals, pajama cardinals, fairy wrasse, etc...

Inverts are fun to watch...cleaner shrimp are more out in the open while fire/blood shrimp look cool but hide away quite a bit. But, if you do get inverts, then you do limit some fish...ie: hawkfish, some wrasse, etc... love to eat shrimp!

 

[mrbluewildcats]

Yellow clown gobies are extremely cool, and stay extremely small. They spend most of their time perched on the rock or on a coral, and when they do swim they tend to hover like a helicopter.

 

[OrionN]

Clown Gobies should not be added to a SPS tank. They make nest by clean tissue off of the SPS at the center or base of the SPS often initiate a die off of the SPS colony. Nice fish but not for SPS.

I would add another Azure Damsel. Have a pair.
If you don't want a Mandarin in the future, add one or two small Angelfish. Add a small tang species.
Get a tight cover for your tank and add a few flasher wrasse. Flasher wrasse are among the most colorful fish there is. They are common but not the cheapest of fish. Hardy, but likley need to be feed several times a day. An automatic feeder feeding pellets, cost less than 20.00 is a very easy way to increase the number of feeding times per day for you.
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[Galeno rocha]

I feed frozen food, so an auto feeder would not be feasible.

I do like inverts, but I'm not ready to go through a separate quarantine process for them.

What's the compatibility issue between mandarins and angels? are angels reefsafe?

 

[Galeno rocha]

Yellow clown gobies are extremely cool, and stay extremely small. They spend most of their time perched on the rock or on a coral, and when they do swim they tend to hover like a helicopter.

Are they compatible with the bicolor blenny?

 

[mrbluewildcats]

Blennies aren't typically aggressive except with other blennies possibly. I have a midas blenny and a lawnmower blenny with a yellow clown goby and a yellow watchman goby and none of them bother any other fish. Like @OrionN said though, if you're going SPS tank, clown goby is a bad idea because they very often rest on corals. I've heard some people say bicolor blennies sometimes nip at corals, at least in smaller tanks. I think that's probably also true of fish aggression in general, the bigger the tank the less aggression. Some fish are more often aggressive anyway, such as a lot of damsels and a yellow tang for example. There are exceptions to every rule, but generally that's how it goes, IMO.

 

[TheShrimpNibbler]

I feed frozen food, so an auto feeder would not be feasible.

I do like inverts, but I'm not ready to go through a separate quarantine process for them.

What's the compatibility issue between mandarins and angels? are angels reefsafe?

Angels are not always reef safe unfortunately. They are compatible with mandarins, but mandarins are very hard to keep well fed because they don’t usually eat anything but copepods. Have you thought about dartfish or basslets. They are both reef safe, peaceful, and beautiful.

 

[OrionN]

I feed frozen food, so an auto feeder would not be feasible.

I do like inverts, but I'm not ready to go through a separate quarantine process for them.

What's the compatibility issue between mandarins and angels? are angels reefsafe?

IMO, you should feed what ever best for your animals. IME, Frozen is essential for certain species of fish, but very far from ideal food for a great majority of reef fish. I think it is best to feed variety type of food for fish. That way, you have a healthy, vibrant color fish in your tank.
I feed a variety of flakes, several frozen food and several pellets. I do have very healthy and colorful fish. The color and health of my fish are second to none.

I don't quarantine my fish. I do QT my corals, anemones and clams for very specific disease.

Mandarin are very specify feeders. They are slow methodical feeder that eat very small crustacean. Angles, certain Wrasse and a few other fish are very efficient hunter. In a 80 gal tank, if you have one or two dwarf angels will out compete them Mandarin and will cause them to starve.

Again, clown gobies are incompatible with SPS which you said you are going to added. If you don't have SPS, clown gobies are fine, will not have problem with any other fish (other than some larger fish that may eat them)

 

[Galeno rocha]

Yes, I actually have an eye in a royal gramma. The only problem is the color scheme, witch is getting repetitive with the azure damsel and the bicolor blenny.

But you can actually achieve variety with frozen food, isn't right? I do feed pellets and flakes occasionally. But i'm not big on the auto feeder idea, since it can easily lead to over feeding and don't allow me to observe problems in the feeding behavior.

Thank you all for the advice, although I feel a little lost still. How about a flame hawk fish, would that be compatible?