Hawaiian Fish?

[Chef Mateo]

Theres also chaetodon fremblii, the whitespot toby puffer, and ostracion whitleyi, if you like box and puffer fish. If i remember correctly pseudanthias bicolor is endemic to the hawaiian islands too, or is at least native there.

I do love boxfish only risk with me is the death although I haven't really heard of people experiencing this. I believe pseudanthias bicolor is native to Hawaii, I think it may be collected in Indonesia as well.

 

[Lostreefin]

Another vote for Chevron tang, one of my favorites, a bristletooth, but so expensive now.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Tangs and wrasses

cant beat a school of Yellow Tangs

 

[See Gee Sea]

My all time favorite but it'd make short work of your inverts

 

[silvernblackr35]

When I think of Hawaii I think of Yellow tangs, Convict tangs, and flame wrasses. I own both the tangs and always have wanted the flame wrasse, just not sure the lifespan is worth the price.

 

[stiffljp]

Chevron tang and flame wrasse, maybe a goldflake angel

 

[KingTideCorals]

My buddy @BighohoReef is doing a stocklist of fish only from Hawaii! Maybe he can chime in as well!

Go get it David...


Also.... my favorite Hawaiian fish is the Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse..Ive created a thread on him/her here! Come check it out! Hard to explain this beauty in just one post!

Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse

Hello Reefers! Reaching out because I myself just picked up a Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse at my LFS for 60bucks?!? Saw it swimming in a tank with with a single other cleaner wrasse and I just felt that I needed to take it home. I have done some research about them previously, but here is what we...

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[saltyhog]

I have several Hawaiian fish in my tank. Flame wrasse, Potter's wrasse, Red Tail tamarin wrasse, Yellow tang, Gold Rim tang.

 

[BighohoReef]

My wife is from Hawaii so we totally get the love for the Hawaiian fish. Here's a list of our Hawaiian fish...

• Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse
• Valentini Puffer
• Kole Tang
• Hawkfish

For future plans I started my research off of the FOWLR list found on reefbuilders.com. High on my list is the Tinker's butterflyfish, though it's not reef safe and you need a large tank and the Flame Wrasse (deep water). Personally the biggest challenges with keeping Hawaiian fish are the initial expense, deep water species survial rate is low and you need to be fairly experienced to keep them. As @ReeferBlaine we both keep Hawaiian cleaners, the inital challenge was to get them to eat or have enough to eat but now that we're both over that hump we have relatively happy healthy fish.

• Flame Wrasse – Cirrhilabrus jordani
• Tinker’s Butterflyfish – Chaetodon tinkeri
• Bandit Angelfish – Apolemichthys arcuatus
• Masked Angelfish – Genicanthus personatus
• Yellow Anthias – Odontanthias fuscipinnis
• Longfin Anthias – Pseudanthias hawaiiensis
• Struhsaker’s Chromis – Chromis struhsakeri
• Orange Margin Butterlfyfish – Prognathodes basabei

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