Fish recommendations?

[jonleeroyix]

Hey everyone! I’m looking to add some new additions to our reef tank! We have a 125 gallon tank with two clowns, diamond goby, yellow tang, coral banded shrimp, engineering goby, and a blue damsel, also various zoas, and soft corals

what do you guys recommend?

Here’s an older pic of my tank

 

[paulgriffin971]

A juvenile Naso tang (but big enough for that yellow tang not to bully), scopus tang, copperband butterfly, foxface, six-line wrasse, and a few chromis. Pajama cardinals and azure damsels are also cheap and can be a friendly addition to any tank.

 

[i cant think]

I recommend against adding another tang, any butterflyfish - well, any tall bodied fish actually. The reason for this is the yellow tang will murder it. They act nice but they really aren’t - I hate most the Zebrasomas due to how they often kill any new fish once established. Learnt the hard way with a Scopas Tang that was 2”.

 

[jonleeroyix]

I recommend against adding another tang, any butterflyfish - well, any tall bodied fish actually. The reason for this is the yellow tang will murder it. They act nice but they really aren’t - I hate most the Zebrasomas due to how they often kill any new fish once established. Learnt the hard way with a Scopas Tang that was 2”.

Honestly I’m more worried about the yellow tang lol, he’s so scared of everything STILL ever since I got him he just hides 24/7

 

[ComfortRacing]

Personally you need to have some constantly moving flash of colors… maybe a shoal of PJ cardinals and some anthias and a beautiful wrasse. Just my 2 lincolns.

 

[blaxsun]

A dwarf angel like a flame or coral beauty would be a nice addition.

 

[paulgriffin971]

Just get an octopus and call it a day

 

[UkiahTheTurtle]

Pistol goby pair

 

[vtecintegra]

Need more rock work with places to hide and sleep before adding any more fish.

 

[cdw79]

My Blue Star Leopard Wrasse (assuming you have a decent pod population and/or you feed 2-3 times a day) has been such a good addition. So personable, peaceful, beautifully colored, and really interesting to watch. Has been incredibly easy to keep too, which has been a pleasant surprise.

Also a big fan of jawfish but maybe not in this case given you have your engineer goby.

Any of the fairy or flasher wrasses (individually, it gets a little more complicated when you try and mix them) are a no brainer for me. The flashing behavior is super cool to watch and they're always eye catchers

They're rare, but I've had a yellow assessor in every tank I've owned and love them. They're a fantastic fish and will do well in almost any tank assuming you don't have anything too aggressive, which you don't seem to right now. They swim upside down for fun, are nicely colored, and virtually indestructible. Once I was redoing my squascape as a kid and found him in a rock with virtually no water for at least 20 minutes. Plopped back in, acted like nothing every happened. Also had an ice outbreak more than once before I appreciated the importance of QT, but it never got a single speck of ick. Literally the most bulletproof fish I've ever owned, and unusual / cool as a bonus. They're a little pricey but can't recommend highly enough!

 

[dmsc2fs]

Personally you need to have some constantly moving flash of colors… maybe a shoal of PJ cardinals and some anthias and a beautiful wrasse. Just my 2 lincolns.

another contender in the shoal group would be zebra barred dartfish.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I'd add either a mix of fairy and flasher wrasses or a school of anthias. I'd also add a few leopard, tamarin, Halichoeres wrasses, and possibly even a pencil wrasse.

I'm a big fan of the rhomboid fairy wrasse, the lineatus fairy wrasse, the pintail fairy wrasse, the red velvet fairy wrasse, the hooded fairy wrasse, the lubbocks fairy wrasse, and the cebu pylei fairy wrasse.

For sand sleeping wrasses, the radiant wrasse, yellow coris wrasse, timor wrasse, meleagris leopard wrasse, kuiters leopard wrasse, chaoti leopard wrasse, bipartitus leopard wrasse, yellow tail tamarin wrasse, china wrasse, and royal pencil wrasse. All are peaceful, reef safe, and gorgeous inhabitants for a reef, should do great with your fish.

If you decide to go anthias, my personal favorites, which also tend to be the hardiest, would be lyretail, Bartlett, or bimaculatus.

3-5 fairy wrasses or a school of 5 anthias, and 3-4 of the sand sleeping wrasses would look great.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Hey everyone! I’m looking to add some new additions to our reef tank! We have a 125 gallon tank with two clowns, diamond goby, yellow tang, coral banded shrimp, engineering goby, and a blue damsel, also various zoas, and soft corals

what do you guys recommend?

Here’s an older pic of my tank

neon/sharknose goby, I would say some kinda shrimp goby but your sandbed looks to be too shallow for them. Jester or Hectors goby, firefish, orange tailspot

 

[i cant think]

neon/sharknose goby, I would say some kinda shrimp goby but your sandbed looks to be too shallow for them. Jester or Hectors goby, firefish, orange tailspot

Even then, for a court jester/hectors goby the sandbox would be too shallow. Here’s the den my Hectors used - And this is with 2” deep sand.

He dug all the way down and there is now bare glass at the bottom. IMHO 2” is the minimum these fish should be on (Any sand using goby actually, not just shrimp goby pairs). Also common misconception:
Shrimp gobies DO NOT need a shrimp to thrive. My yasha is 2” and 2 years old, he thrives without a shrimp goby (Even makes his own caves without the shrimp).

 

[SlugSnorter]

Even then, for a court jester/hectors goby the sandbox would be too shallow.

lots of porus rock, a captive bred would be fine.

 

[i cant think]

lots of porus rock, a captive bred would be fine.

Just added to the previous post - You have to remember that these fish need to use sand to make homes as well as for food source. Also they don’t eat pods unlike most gobies, they eat algae instead. Mine mainly gets microfauna that isn’t pods from the sand. The algae is the only thing he grabs on the rocks.

 

[stylolvr]

Pistol goby pair

+1

And I agree with a group of something colorful. PJs are great (and hardy)! Also, something that adds movement like wrasses or anthias. Do some research and make sure you don't go with something that will nip/eat coral.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Just added to the previous post - You have to remember that these fish need to use sand to make homes as well as for food source. Also they don’t eat pods unlike most gobies, they eat algae instead. Mine mainly gets microfauna that isn’t pods from the sand. The algae is the only thing he grabs on the rocks.

I know, they also can live inside deep pours in rocks. They also graze off the rocks. Good captive bred also take foods made for grazers. A wild caught is fairly rare, and captives are common so I doubt OP would seek a wild one out

 

[SlugSnorter]

Pistol goby pair

not deep enough sand, they need to have sand burrows and cannot live in deep rock holes

 

[i cant think]

not deep enough sand, they need to have sand burrows and cannot live in deep rock holes

They can - Again, these fish can thrive without shrimp. they DO NOT need sand burrows. You’re thinking of the Cryptocentrus genus that needs that. Not all Cryptocentrus gobies pair so it’s always better to go with Stonogobiops gobies.

My yasha doesn’t care about not having a shrimp and definitely doesn’t use the sand - He uses it to perch on but rarely to make a burrow. My S. yasha hid in a deep rock hole for a year when it went into my first tank. Now in this tank it hides in the rocks again (Another year went by of him doing this).