Fish for 55g

[rob92]

I'm looking at fish for my 55g and all the ones I find that catch my eye have a min tank size bigger than my tank.

I'm already goin to get 2 occ clownfish but what else can I get. The colors I want are purple, orange and yellow. There can be some other colors but those are the main colors I want. Also they need to be invert safe

 

[Martin's Reef]

Look into wrasse and blenny species.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

For purple and yellow you could get this.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

For orange this would be my choice.

Orange spotted prawn goby

 

[Kano]

Yellow clown goby unless you're going to have SPS.

 

[Martin's Reef]

Sailing blenny small beautiful but hard to find these days. I have never had one but want one bad!!!

 

[rob92]

My fish selection. Got these ideas from live aquaria and I did research to see if they would go together and from what I've read everything on my list will do just fine with each other. Now the question is, is this too many inverts/fish or what? The fish it have marked down for 3 are schooling fish. I doesn't match my color selection but oh well I like this better.



Inverts:
Dwarf zebra hermit crab - 1
Cerith snail - 5
Dwarf yellow tip hermit crab - 1
Bumble bee snail - 10
Dwarf red tip hermit crab - 1
Nassarius snail - 5





Fish:
Spotted cardinalfish - 3
Blue reef chromis - 3
Clown goby, citrinis - 1
Bicolor dottyback - 1
Zebra barred dartfish - 1
Black axil chromis - 3
Purple firefish - 1
Ocellaris clownfish - 2

 

[rob92]

My fish selection. Got these ideas from live aquaria and I did research to see if they would go together and from what I've read everything on my list will do just fine with each other. Now the question is, is this too many inverts/fish or what? The fish it have marked down for 3 are schooling fish. I doesn't match my color selection but oh well I like this better.



Inverts:
Dwarf zebra hermit crab - 1
Cerith snail - 5
Dwarf yellow tip hermit crab - 1
Bumble bee snail - 10
Dwarf red tip hermit crab - 1
Nassarius snail - 5





Fish:
Spotted cardinalfish - 3
Blue reef chromis - 3
Clown goby, citrinis - 1
Bicolor dottyback - 1
Zebra barred dartfish - 1
Black axil chromis - 3
Purple firefish - 1
Ocellaris clownfish - 2

 

[Kano]

Add the bicolor dottyback last if you're going to do those. I'm not sure about the survival rate on the black axil chromis but I know I lose a lot of the blue reef chromis to either fighting with each other or unknown. I have 3 survivors in my 225 (out of 12 or 15ish). I didn't see them harass each other but they disappeared either way. These 3 have been fine for months or years though. Anyway, your list looks fine. Shouldn't be too crowded for a 55.

 

[rob92]

Well 55g is finally cycled so I'm going to go pickup 2 occ clowns today after I get off work along with a few snails. Does anyone have any objections to this lol.

 

[Dan1789]

Purple firefish, flame angel, yellow watchman goby

 

[vlangel]

For orange you can go with lyretail anthias, although my husband say mine just look like goldfish.LOL. Make sure its only the lyretail, other anthias need more space. There are a lot of gobies and blennies that are suitable, and nothing beats them for personality.