Looking for a new fish...

[ReefJCB]

I’ve got the itch to get a new fish and would love some feedback.

My current stock list for my 120g (60” long, 24” tall, 18” deep) is:

Purple Firefish
2 Da’Vinci Clowns
Kaudern’s Cardinalfish
Midas Blenny
Longnose Hawkfish
Coral Beauty Angel
Melanurus Wrasse
McCosker’s Flasher Wrasse
Yellow Tang
Powder Blue Tang (yes, I know120 is not ideal)
Tomini Tang

I’d love to get some suggestions for some new fish. I’m thinking maybe a trio of lyretail anthias or another wrasse or 2.

 

[sfin52]

Leapord wrasse. Gorgeous fish and peaceful

 

[mattzang]

i agree, wrasses ftw!

if only there was someone in arizona that knew a lot about wrasses

@evolved

 

[ReefJCB]

Leapord wrasse. Gorgeous fish and peaceful

I thought they were pretty hard to keep?

 

[ReefJCB]

i agree, wrasses ftw!

if only there was someone in arizona that knew a lot about wrasses

@evolved

Do you have any recommendations? I’ve got my eye on an 8 line and a yellow corris

 

[sfin52]

I thought they were pretty hard to keep?

Hard to ship. They don't ship well. Can be a little hard to get on frozen but once they are a great fish.

 

[nereefpat]

I’ve got my eye on an 8 line and a yellow corris

The yellow is almost always an excellent choice. You'll have to watch the melanurus though, since they are closely related and some can be boisterous as adults. It will be easiest if the melanurus isn't a mature male.

I would avoid the 8 line. All the "lined" wrasses are bad tankmates.

 

[BayouReefer]

I love wrasses I have a Melanurus and a Leopard. The Melanurus is much larger so my leopard tends to avoid him but overall right now they get along.

 

[mattzang]

Do you have any recommendations? I’ve got my eye on an 8 line and a yellow corris

i'd give this thread a read, quite useful

8 line not a good idea, the Pseudocheilinus ones are mean

yellow would be good, aforementioned melanarus might have a bit of an issue with it, though. but usually mixing halichoeres isn't too rough. i have h. biocellatus and h. chrysus in a much smaller tank so i'd think you'd be ok, just use an acclimation box

fairy and flasher wrasses are pretty, active, and not too difficult

leopard and anampses wrasses are more difficult, probably best to find those guys locally if possible

 

[Saltfishonly]

Get a diamond goby they are pretty cool

 

[ReefJCB]

The yellow is almost always an excellent choice. You'll have to watch the melanurus though, since they are closely related and some can be boisterous as adults. It will be easiest if the melanurus isn't a mature male.

I would avoid the 8 line. All the "lined" wrasses are bad tankmates.

The melanarus is pretty big, a solid 3+ inches. I’ve been really lucky to not see any aggression with either him or my PBT so far. Fingers crossed they will both continue to behave.

I knew the 6 lines could be devils but didn’t know that about the 8s. Thanks for the info!

 

[ReefJCB]

Get a diamond goby they are pretty cool

I had one in my last tank and he dumped sand on EVERYTHING. Really cool fish but he drove me nuts haha

 

[doodledreads]

I recommend some barnacle or sailfin blennies. Super fun to watch.

 

[ReefJCB]

I recommend some barnacle or sailfin blennies. Super fun to watch.

I love blennies, but I thought they don’t mix well. I’ve already got the Midas in the tank.

 

[doodledreads]

I recommend some barnacle or sailfin blennies. Super fun to

I love blennies, but I thought they don’t mix well. I’ve already got the Midas in the tank.

I understand, some can be mean sobs - I had a starry blenny terrorize a whole tank and kill my favorite leopard wrasse once. Did not feel bad when he jumped out and killed himself. Barnacle blennies/sailfins are bottom dwelling, so should be okay with a midas - I don't know for sure though.

If your tank is not super high flow and not quite new, I also recommend blue stripe pipefish. They actually ended up being very resilient. Then again, I like smaller size fish.

Or, try a few female flasher wrasses - it will make the male color up and show off and nothing equals a showing off flasher wrasse IMO

 

[Reef AquaCult]

ORA has black cardinal fish now, I saw them at the LFS schooling under a cave, very graceful and pretty interesting looking. Wont fight with Bangai / Kauderni I believe. You can pick up 4 or 5 of them, they are a peaceful schooling fish. They're on LiveAquaria right now, or your LFS can probably get them.

 

[mattzang]

non wrasse ideas:

for water column swimming a group of anthias if you feed the tank a lot or some tilefish would be cool

for rock based, maybe a gramma or if you want slightly more aggressive orchid dottyback

chrysiptera damsels would be cool too

 

[Saltfishonly]

I had one in my last tank and he dumped sand on EVERYTHING. Really cool fish but he drove me nuts haha

Hehe yeah that’s the only flaw of them mine totally renovated my sand,the little dork got so carried away one day I saw it pick up my little hermit crab spit it out by his “castle” got sand and tried to bury it