Help me choose my next fish

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So I have a 57g sps tank and I want to add maybe one or two more fish and call it a day. Help me choose an interesting fish!

So far I have:
Yellow tang (sorry tang police)
Two clowns
Melanurus wrasse

Thanks!
 
Tuff call, all of your fish can be aggressive once they've established themselves.


Maybe a pseudochromis?
 
Some options:
Royal gramma
Midas blenny
Grammistes blenny
Flame or longnose hawk
Zebra or scissortail dartfish
Watchman goby
Bangaii cardinals
If the tank is covered, a flasher or small fairy wrasse.
 
Awesome, I was thinking a flasher wrasse and a ruby red scooter or a long nose hawk. I also do have the tank covered with a diy clear net top.
 
I would be wary of adding the ruby red scooter to a 57g with a melanurus wrasse as scooters are very dependent on pod populations for sustainance, and melanurus pick heavily on pods.
 
Awesome, I was thinking a flasher wrasse and a ruby red scooter or a long nose hawk. I also do have the tank covered with a diy clear net top.

Since you have a covered tank a flasher would be awsume. They are very interesting and beautiful fish. They are fairly hardy and easy to care for.



I would be wary of adding the ruby red scooter to a 57g with a melanurus wrasse as scooters are very dependent on pod populations for sustainance, and melanurus pick heavily on pods.

Agreed.
 
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Thanks for the replies guys. I picked up three small blue/green chromis and I also want to get a flasher wrasse. Deciding between the McCosker's, Flaviananis, and Carpenter's.
 
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McCosker's is my favorite.

All three look very similar with small differences. Are there and behavioral or diet needs that would differentiate them? I see that they are all in the Paracheilinus genus so I'd assume not.
 
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I would also suggest a nice reef-safe wrasse or a miss Blenny. They are very colorful and entertaining to watch without mowing your corals down. Another option might be a trio of CB bangaii cardinals?
 
All three look very similar with small differences. Are there and behavioral or diet needs that would differentiate them? I see that they are all in the Paracheilinus genus so I'd assume not.

There are no significant differences in care, just personal preference on looks.
 
All three look very similar with small differences. Are there and behavioral or diet needs that would differentiate them? I see that they are all in the Paracheilinus genus so I'd assume not.

I have only kept McCosker's, and Carpenter's so I cant comment on Flaviananis.
McCosker's and Carpenter's are pretty much the same. McCosker is got a little more color and is higher priced.
 
Sweet thanks for the input guys. I'm stuck between the McCoskers and the Carpenter's so I'm just gonna let my girlfriend pick for me lol.
 
Sweet thanks for the input guys. I'm stuck between the McCoskers and the Carpenter's so I'm just gonna let my girlfriend pick for me lol.

LOL that's what I did... They had this lonely Mccoskers in a tank and a whole bunch of carpenter's and she picked the Mccoskers and that's how I got my first flasher Wrasse.. This fish eventually jumped out though, I had the screen 1/4 from the edge one day and he made it through somehow, I could not believe it. Cover them and cover them well..
I used to have some firefish too with the wrasse and those things were always bouncing off the screen.

I always let my girlfriend pick out my fish though, I say yes or now it can go but she picks. Some how she gets these fish with lots of personality.
 
I love watching my flame hawk hopping from rock to rock. give your tank a splash of intense red.
 
anybody with a flame hawk and a goby in the tank? my guess it would scare it away...
 
I have a flame hawk with 3 dartfish. no problems. hawks don't usually bother other fish.
 

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