I have a 60g (60s display with 25g sump) mixed reef (mainly lps).
The current fish/inverts I own are as follows:
1 Midas Blenny
2 Clowns (1 misbar b/w and 1 black ice, both juvenile or young adult)
1 Six-line wrasse
1 Emerald Crab
1 Candy Cane Pistol Shrimp
1 Florida Fighting Conch
I am picking up 2 fish that I reserved that are currently in quarantine on the 13th (I might be able to back out, but I would prefer not to):
1 2.5 inch tomini tang
1 Ray-fin goby
Everything I am trying to look at fish-wise are either too big for the tank, too difficult to feed (anthias eat many times per day), or will eat my corals, fish, or inverts.
I am looking for a fish or a pair of fish to round out the tank and complete my stocking list, but everything I look at has issues. My wife insists on getting unique fish that don't look like freshwater species (she doesn't want cardinals, dottybacks, damsels, or grammas). Fish I've looked at and the reasons I can't get them:
The current fish/inverts I own are as follows:
1 Midas Blenny
2 Clowns (1 misbar b/w and 1 black ice, both juvenile or young adult)
1 Six-line wrasse
1 Emerald Crab
1 Candy Cane Pistol Shrimp
1 Florida Fighting Conch
I am picking up 2 fish that I reserved that are currently in quarantine on the 13th (I might be able to back out, but I would prefer not to):
1 2.5 inch tomini tang
1 Ray-fin goby
Everything I am trying to look at fish-wise are either too big for the tank, too difficult to feed (anthias eat many times per day), or will eat my corals, fish, or inverts.
I am looking for a fish or a pair of fish to round out the tank and complete my stocking list, but everything I look at has issues. My wife insists on getting unique fish that don't look like freshwater species (she doesn't want cardinals, dottybacks, damsels, or grammas). Fish I've looked at and the reasons I can't get them:
- Engineer Goby: gets too big and might eat my goby/shrimp pair
- Valentini Puffer: Will eat the emerald crab, possibly the shrimp
- Sand sifting gobies: they will likely starve with my new tank being too pristine and lack of biodiversity in the sand
- Any blennies: I already have a blenny, probably wouldn't mesh well with my midas
- Any wrasses: I have a six line wrasse, people have told me they are jerks to other wrasses
- Firefish: Midas blennies don't like firefish
- Filefish: Eats/nips at coral
- Marine Betta: will eat my smaller fish
- Hogfish/Scorpionfish: Possibly will eat the emerald crab, tiny goby, or shrimp