Your top 10 reef-safe fish

[fishroomlady]

1. wyoming white/frost bite clownfish
2. leopard wrasse
3. flame hawkfish (as mentioned, love this fish!)
4. midas blenny
5. starry blenny
6. yellow watchman goby/pistol pair
7. coral beauty/potter's angel
8. yellow tailed damsel
9. copper banded butterfly
10. kole tang

HTH!

 

[Greenhead]

Blue Tang
Yellow or blue eye Kole Tang
Melanarus Wrasse
Leopard Wrasse
Foxface
Snowflake Clowns
Algae Blenny
Indian Ocean Lyretail Anthia
Copper Band Butterfly
And the good old cleaner wrasse.

 

[Greenhead]

Honorable mention, cause I don't own them but want to once I upgrade from 150 to 300.

Harlequin Tusk
Crosshatch or Blue Throat Triggers.
Desardjini Red Sea Sail <spelling bad I know>
Achilles Tang
Blue Face angel. (One that doesn't devour my coral)

 

[.Kevin.]

1. Chaetodon Tinkeri - The Hawaiian Butterflyfish
2. Naso Elegans - Blond Naso Tang
3. Acanthurus Leucosteron - Powder Blue Tang
4. Chelmon Rostratus - Copperband Butterflyfish
5. Zebrasoma Xanthurum - Purple Tang
6. Nemateleotris Helfrichi - Helfrichi Firefish
7. Ctenochaetus Flavicauda - Whitetail Bristletooth
8. Acanthurus Lineatus - Clown Tang
9. Anampses Meleagrides - Yellowtail Tamarin Wrasse
10. Pomacanthus Navarchus - The Majestic Angelfish(not-reef save)

Kevin

 

[Nitr8]

It's surprising how many people are not sticking with reef safe only fish on their lists. Just about every list I see on here has at least one fish that's not reef safe. Do your research before making any decisions.

1.) borbonius anthias
2.) royal gramma
3.) Yasha haze goby
4.) Hawaiian flame wrasse
5.) banggai cardinal
6.) blue reef chromis
7.) solar wrasse
8.) yellow tang
9.) designer clowns
10.) lawn mower blenny

 

[Bluelobstor]

I would tend to disagree I think most have put reef safe fish, including people with large angels
the key is to design the reef around those fish as most are safe with certain corals and some like the regal angel and Moorish idol should be placed in a reef as they tend to do better in those settings.

 

[AquariGod]

Thanks for the input everyone. Yeah, I do see some barely reefsafe fish on here, but still.. there are exceptions. If it has been done, I'd like to hear about it haha.

 

[Bluelobstor]

LPS and polyps and clams are most at risk. I also find that well fed fish are less likely to sample corals.

 

[stiky]

Valentini is somewhat reef safe. They're more curious than anything. If you love you bubble corals like I do. They will kill them. Just out of curiosity they will nip them and then it's like trying to stop an old air mattress from losing all it's air. Anything else I feel will recover. I want a puffer but not at the sacrifice of my 10 inch bubble.

 

[Shep]

Gold Assessor (very shy but an amazing fish)
Firefish
Green mandarin
Blue Green Reef Chromis
Ocellaris Clownfish
.......That is it for my list I honestly have not owned 10 different types fish lol

 

[Bluelobstor]

Gold Assessor (very shy but an amazing fish)
Firefish
Green mandarin
Blue Green Reef Chromis
Ocellaris Clownfish
.......That is it for my list I honestly have not owned 10 different types fish lol

It can be fish that you want as well

 

[AquariGod]

Yeah !

 

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1. Golden Midas Blenny
2. Bar gobies
3. Square anthias
4. Borbonius anthias
5. Clown tang
6. Watanabie angel
7. Radiant wrasse
8. Red Sea flasher wrasse
9. Green mandarin
10. Blue eye cardinals

 

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Valentini is somewhat reef safe. They're more curious than anything. If you love you bubble corals like I do. They will kill them. Just out of curiosity they will nip them and then it's like trying to stop an old air mattress from losing all it's air. Anything else I feel will recover. I want a puffer but not at the sacrifice of my 10 inch bubble.

They will eat every crab shrimp and snail and are notorious fin nippers. I would highly advise not yo put one in a reef tank

 

[Bluelobstor]

They will eat every crab shrimp and snail and are notorious fin nippers. I would highly advise not yo put one in a reef tank

+1.

 

[.Kevin.]

Basically I think that reef save depends on what you want. Some fish do well with sps, some with lps. Some you can't keep with shrimps or clams. If you take those options in consideration some fish become possible. En sometimes it just depends on the fish itself.
To many options, to many possibilities, so hard to choose

Kevin

 

[tyler1503]

They will eat every crab shrimp and snail and are notorious fin nippers. I would highly advise not yo put one in a reef tank

Mine eats shrimp, but only since he saw my snowflake eel mow down on one. He rarely gets snails too, I only see him hunt snails if he's teeth are growing a bit long and he won't touch crabs that are bigger than one bite size, he almost seems scared of crabs. He's never harmed another fish either. Maybe I was just lucky enough to get a good one?

 

[vipmaa]

i Egypt we haven't all kind of fish, but i will get this collection
1 - Lyretail Anthias
2 - Flame Hawkfish
3 - Kaudern's Cardinal
4 - Starry Blenny
5 - Coral Beauty Angelfish
6 - Foxface Lo
7 - Yellowstripe Maroon Clownfish
8 - Yellow Multibanded Pipefish
9 - Sailfin Tang, Desjardini
10 - Six Line Wrasse

 

[mainereefer]

i egypt we haven't all kind of fish, but i will get this collection
1 - lyretail anthias
2 - flame hawkfish
3 - kaudern's cardinal
4 - starry blenny
5 - coral beauty angelfish
6 - foxface lo
7 - yellowstripe maroon clownfish
8 - yellow multibanded pipefish
9 - sailfin tang, desjardini
10 - six line wrasse

welcome!

 

[AquariGod]

Anybody else have some favorites ?