Reef Safe fish list for larger tanks?

[Treefer32]

I’ve got 6 tunze 6105, 1 tunze 6095, 3 tunze waveboxes, and a dart for a return pump. I have 2 6095 in the sump for a Frag tank and a rossmont mc 2600, in the fuge.

Wow! I have one MP 40 and 2 Skimz S18s. I was thinking I need to add two more MP40s.

 

[NautiTang]

Among the other good suggestions perhaps one or some of the following: flasher wrasse(s), rabbitfish, eibli angel, midas blenny to name a few interesting colorful fish and some movement.

 

[Cbones1979]

Among the other good suggestions perhaps one or some of the following: flasher wrasse(s), rabbitfish, eibli angel, midas blenny to name a few interesting colorful fish and some movement.

Thought Eibli were coral eaters

 

[LesPoissons]

In my opinion you could def get a mandarin or 3- I have a blue and a green happily in a 220g with only Xenia in my fuge and they are fat and happy. The green is out all day- the blue is much more shy. I would def try anthias again- lyretails are pretty and hardy and swim mid level all day. The key is feeding multiple meals a day. I have a blue throat trigger and he is awesome. I’m looking for a girlfriend for him bc he doesn’t bother a thing. If you like clowns you can also add more. With all the captive breeding they seem to be less agressive (In my opinion) than the old guideline of 1 pair per tank. I have 7 ocellaris varieties and 1 maroon and so far no causalities.

 

[Treefer32]

In my opinion you could def get a mandarin or 3- I have a blue and a green happily in a 220g with only Xenia in my fuge and they are fat and happy. The green is out all day- the blue is much more shy. I would def try anthias again- lyretails are pretty and hardy and swim mid level all day. The key is feeding multiple meals a day. I have a blue throat trigger and he is awesome. I’m looking for a girlfriend for him bc he doesn’t bother a thing. If you like clowns you can also add more. With all the captive breeding they seem to be less agressive (In my opinion) than the old guideline of 1 pair per tank. I have 7 ocellaris varieties and 1 maroon and so far no causalities.

I had a pair of orange ocellaris and not long after I added my blue throat one of my two clowns vanished. No carpet surfing that I could find and no corpse int he tank that I could find. So, I don't know if it went somewhere and died or if the other clown killed it. The other clown is doing great, swims all over during the day. Yeah, I may try some Lyretails again someday. I have time to feed twice. I hand feed several of my fish twice a day now with high nutrition home made food designed for high energy fish with a couple bottles of selcon and max aminos as well as some cyclopeze, freeze dried krill, and three types of frozen seafood - mahi ahi, scallops, and shrimp all grated into small bite size chunks.

With the new food I think I'd be able to keep anthias again. Assuming there's no disease in my tank that they're susceptable to.

 

[Haydn]

What you need to do is look at almost any video of a general wild reef landscape except of course, those targeting a specific group or shoal (PBT for example) and look at the species most prevalent in the video. There will generally be clouds of small fish (anthias, cardinals, damsel, etc.) very few larger 'spot' fish- they may swim through the shot but they generally don't hang around. IMO if you want a 'natural' looking reef you need to mimic that especially in a large tank, keep the large fish to a minimum and load it with small species (but do your homework first!) and watch the reef come alive.

This video show what I mean

 

[Chibils]

What you need to do is look at almost any video of a general wild reef landscape except of course, those targeting a specific group or shoal (PBT for example) and look at the species most prevalent in the video. There will generally be clouds of small fish (anthias, cardinals, damsel, etc.) very few larger 'spot' fish- they may swim through the shot but they generally don't hang around. IMO if you want a 'natural' looking reef you need to mimic that especially in a large tank, keep the large fish to a minimum and load it with small species (but do your homework first!) and watch the reef come alive.

This video show what I mean

Totally agreed. Planted freshwater tanks often employ this method to great success. 75-100 gallon tanks will be staffed by nothing more than 30 or so tetras or similar small dither fish and it not only makes the tank look bigger, but "cleaner" too.

 

[Treefer32]

I like this thinking. I look at my tank and all I see are bigger fish. I'd like to try Anthias again to bring more smaller life to the tank. I may have Uronemia (sp?) a disease specifically in my tank that may only affect anthias. My understanding is there's no way to get rid of it. So, how do I know if it would still affect Anthias or not without putting a bunch in then seeing if they die or not?