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I have a 25 gallon 18" cube as a display tank in my office-space. The tank is currently stocked by a pair of ocellaris, a diamond goby, a yellow coris wrasse, a number of ornamental shrimp and a cuc of snails/porcelain crab/tuxedo urchin. Everything has been fine, up until the last 2 weeks. I believe one of my 2 small fire shrimp passed away from random/natural causes but was then eaten by my clownfish when it was a floater. Ever since my clowns have been crazy aggressive toward all my shrimp to the point that I needed to move all of the remaining shrimp to the attached frag tank before they were picked clean. My cleaner lost almost all of its antenna as well as a leg, but appears to be doing fine now, I suspect itll be back to 100% after a few molts. And before I get flack about the wrasse or goby, I have plans to relocate anything that gets too large for this small tank lol.
Anyway, this tank was built more or less specifically for shrimp and soft corals so I am planning on trading my clowns in for store credit at my lfs, but want somthing to replace them that is non-territorial and wont develop a taste for shrimp. What options do I have that are reef safe and will blend well with the current inhabitants?
 
Firefish are always a good option. So are shrimp gobies (and hey, you get to add even more shrimp!). It's looks like you're wanting some sort of semi-pelagic zooplanktivorous fish that's rather active, right?
 
Firefish are always a good option. So are shrimp gobies (and hey, you get to add even more shrimp!). It's looks like you're wanting some sort of semi-pelagic zooplanktivorous fish that's rather active, right?

Yep, I just want something to take the place of the clowns really. It doesn't have to be a crazy active swimmer, but something that spends alot of time in the mid to upper tank levels would be nice
 
x1 Pink Streaked Wrasse / Tanaka’s Possum Wrasse (both to 2.5”)

x1 small kind of Fairy / Flasher Wrasse

x1 Yellow Watchman Goby (Or a similar kind of shrimp Goby) + Randall’s Pistol Shrimp (YWG gets to 4”, Orange Spotted to 4”, Randall’s to 4.5”, Pink Bar to 4”, Wheeler’s to 3.5”- IMO these are the best)

x1 Bicolor Blenny (4”)

x1 Pajama Cardinalfish (3.5”)

x1 Royal Gramma / Swissguard Basslet / Swales Basslet / Yellow Assessor / McNeill’s Assessor / Randall’s Assessor (all ~3”)
 

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