"Last fish" ideas?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Thinking a Centropyge would eventually get too big. Although if you got a small enough one you could probably get 6-12 months before you had to consider rehoming him.

Yeah maybe. I had a flame angel once that never got any bigger than about 2.5"-3" in a few years and I think he would have been fine.

But I don't really want to get a fish that I will have to rehome.

[muck]

Love these guys...

http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/hog...andyhogwrasse/

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

"Generally a relatively peaceful community fish, but may bother exceptionally docile, similarly shaped fishes such as Firefish"

This may be a bit of a problem. I have never had the best success with Wrasses being peaceful.

Very nice though.

[muck]

http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/pse...chromisredsea/

or

http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/hog...stripehogfish/

are also great looking fish IMO.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Yellow assessor maybe?

Wow Tony. I've never seen this little guy before. It's now on MY list (along with your tailspot Justin).

[TheMikey]

I'd second the clownfish. I love mine, very active and colourful. However, if you're looking for colour and something more unique, maybe a flasher wrasse? I've seen them as showfish on nano-reef sometimes.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Red or yellow, huh. Hmmm.

Yellow assessor maybe? Or how about a candy basslet? I hear nice things about these fish (personality and suitability) and they're pretty (and yellow and yellow/red respectively). There are other fish in this category in other colours (black cap basslet, blue assessors, ... chaulk bass, gramma's .. etc.)

Thinking a Centropyge would eventually get too big. Although if you got a small enough one you could probably get 6-12 months before you had to consider rehoming him.

A yellow assessor is an awesome fish, very colourful (especially if you get the smaller australian variant) and about as friendly as it gets.
Just make sure you have an overhang with some good flow under it because that is where this fish will stay.

I would also put a blue assessor on here, even though it doesn't match your colour schematic but man o man, what an unbelievably eye catching fish...
Would really be a showpiece in the tank described.

Both varieties of assessors (which I believe are considered basslets) are as unaggressive as you could hope for.

I suppose that also, if you're tank is nicely established or you have a 'fuge of one variety or another(or want to spend the money on bottled pods) a red psychedelic mandarin would fit your hopes for colour and passiveness well.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by TheMikey

I'd second the clownfish. I love mine, very active and colourful. However, if you're looking for colour and something more unique, maybe a flasher wrasse? I've seen them as showfish on nano-reef sometimes.

I was looking at flasher wrasse the other day actually. It is an option.

Originally Posted by gobytron

A yellow assessor is an awesome fish, very colourful (especially if you get the smaller australian variant) and about as friendly as it gets.
Just make sure you have an overhang with some good flow under it because that is where this fish will stay.

I would also put a blue assessor on here, even though it doesn't match your colour schematic but man o man, what an unbelievably eye catching fish...
Would really be a showpiece in the tank described.

Both varieties of assessors (which I believe are considered basslets) are as unaggressive as you could hope for.

I suppose that also, if you're tank is nicely established or you have a 'fuge of one variety or another(or want to spend the money on bottled pods) a red psychedelic mandarin would fit your hopes for colour and passiveness well.

Color isn't really THAT big a deal...blue would be fine. I know J&L have the Yellow Assessors right now. Very nice fish!

I don't really have much of a fuge or a Mandarin would be a great fish too. Although I am still really looking for something more active in the water column. It's hard to find anything for a smaller tank like this that is an active swimmer. Obviously if they are active swimmers in this size tank, they have to stay pretty small.