Flame and orche striped cardinal experience?

[Shadowbass]

Ive seen both of these at my lfs and the orche stripe has beautiful blue eyes and the flame is a very attractive fish but ive heard they can be very predatory with shrimp and other fish, can anyone else atest to this behavior? Also do you think one of these could go with an orange skunk clown in a 20 gallon long and a coral banded shrimp?

 

[tdileo]

I don't have experience with the orchestriped cardinal, but I know that flame cardinals can become very aggressive and eat smaller tankmates. I also suggest you get rid of the coral handed shrimp unless you absolutely love him more than anything else. Eventually 99.5% of them become very aggressive and will try to take fish out of the water column. Cleaner shrimp are almost as cool looking and have just even more personality but pose a threat only to food lol!

 

[Shadowbass]

I havent added anything to this tank yet im just looking at stocking options atm

 

[Shadowbass]

This tank has no coral and only macroalgae so i thought about clown gobies

 

[Shadowbass]

Anyone else have experience with these or similar fish