New fish suggestion

[maxberter]

Sadly we lost our firefish last night when he jumped out (I do have a custom lid, he jumped through a dime-sized opening, which I am plugging). Just looking for some suggestions for a new fish.

It's a 37 gallon tall FOWLR (with inverts), pic attached. Have a clown, midas blenny, bangai cardinalfish, cherub angelfish. Everyone gets along. Also have an urchin, 2 pom pom crabs and 2 sexy shrimp and a variety of snails.

What to get? A different firefish? A different goby? Wrasse? I'd love a small puffer, but worried about losing my CUC and other possible issues. Thanks for any thoughts.

 

[betareef]

Scissortail goby

 

[Tchung23]

basslet. Peppermint basslets are cool

 

[SudzFD]

Sadly we lost our firefish last night when he jumped out (I do have a custom lid, he jumped through a dime-sized opening, which I am plugging). Just looking for some suggestions for a new fish.

It's a 37 gallon tall FOWLR (with inverts), pic attached. Have a clown, midas blenny, bangai cardinalfish, cherub angelfish. Everyone gets along. Also have an urchin, 2 pom pom crabs and 2 sexy shrimp and a variety of snails.

What to get? A different firefish? A different goby? Wrasse? I'd love a small puffer, but worried about losing my CUC and other possible issues. Thanks for any thoughts.

Small Valentino puffer might be cool. I’ve had one in a tank this size. It never bothered my hermits or snails, but ate a cleaner shrimp the minute I introduced it.

Blue spotted jaw fish would also be very cool.

 

[MoshJosh]

Sadly we lost our firefish last night when he jumped out (I do have a custom lid, he jumped through a dime-sized opening, which I am plugging). Just looking for some suggestions for a new fish.

It's a 37 gallon tall FOWLR (with inverts), pic attached. Have a clown, midas blenny, bangai cardinalfish, cherub angelfish. Everyone gets along. Also have an urchin, 2 pom pom crabs and 2 sexy shrimp and a variety of snails.

What to get? A different firefish? A different goby? Wrasse? I'd love a small puffer, but worried about losing my CUC and other possible issues. Thanks for any thoughts.

Personally I like a pair of clowns. . . that said, other options might be a 6-line wrasse (can be aggressive but being last addition might help), some type of pseudochromis (dotty back. . . also aggressive), blue green chromis, some type of goby, or a springeri damsel?

Could try to find a mimic filefish (mimics a saddleback puffer), but depending on your area they may be harder to find.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sadly we lost our firefish last night when he jumped out (I do have a custom lid, he jumped through a dime-sized opening, which I am plugging). Just looking for some suggestions for a new fish.

It's a 37 gallon tall FOWLR (with inverts), pic attached. Have a clown, midas blenny, bangai cardinalfish, cherub angelfish. Everyone gets along. Also have an urchin, 2 pom pom crabs and 2 sexy shrimp and a variety of snails.

What to get? A different firefish? A different goby? Wrasse? I'd love a small puffer, but worried about losing my CUC and other possible issues. Thanks for any thoughts.

Another firefish
Dartfish
strawberry basslet

 

[maxberter]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Some were already on my radar, some were not!

 

[King George]

Tank looks great @maxberter! Do you recall what type of live rock that is? (Purple)

I want to redo my rockscape in my Red Sea Nano Peninsula and love the look of yours. LMK, thank you!

 

[TX_REEF]

check out yellow coris wrasse, super cute little guys.

 

[maxberter]

Tank looks great @maxberter! Do you recall what type of live rock that is? (Purple)

I want to redo my rockscape in my Red Sea Nano Peninsula and love the look of yours. LMK, thank you!

Thanks! The center purple structure is Caribsea LifeRock. One large arch at the bottom, and two smaller arches. The top rock on the left is freestanding wedged/balanced in place with some superglue as well. The one on the right is just balanced and also leans against the back wall. I can tilt this forward to clean the back glass with a magnet in the area it makes contact. Attached a couple of pics.

 

[King George]

Thanks! The center purple structure is Caribsea LifeRock. One large arch at the bottom, and two smaller arches. The top rock on the left is freestanding wedged/balanced in place with some superglue as well. The one on the right is just balanced and also leans against the back wall. I can tilt this forward to clean the back glass with a magnet in the area it makes contact. Attached a couple of pics.

Ah - thank you so much, going to check it out now!

Looks great, and the CaribSea arches are perfect since you have a tall tank - works out very nicely. Appreciate the help!

 

[ygbsmww]

Flame hawkfish has always been a favorite of mine

 

[littlefoxx]

Just be aware of the sexy shrimps, wrasse will eat those, so would a valentini puffer and hawkfish.

 

[maxberter]

Just be aware of the sexy shrimps, wrasse will eat those, so would a valentini puffer and hawkfish.

Yeah, thanks, on my mind with a valentini...

 

[maxberter]

I had a follow up question regarding the valentini puffer, for those that have had them. I've been reading that they are "messy", but dont really have a good sense for what that means exactly.

I have a small, $15 "skimmer" in the tank, but otherwise no mechanical filtration. I do a weekly 5 gallon water change. Nitrates are stable at about 10 ppm. Would you be concerned about the mess/bioload a puffer would add? Especially if he ate all the snails?

 

[SudzFD]

I had a follow up question regarding the valentini puffer, for those that have had them. I've been reading that they are "messy", but dont really have a good sense for what that means exactly.

I have a small, $15 "skimmer" in the tank, but otherwise no mechanical filtration. I do a weekly 5 gallon water change. Nitrates are stable at about 10 ppm. Would you be concerned about the mess/bioload a puffer would add? Especially if he ate all the snails?

I don’t believe it will be any more “messy” than another fish of that size. They are very interesting to watch and I’ve kept one in a similar sized tank as you without a problem.