"Last fish" ideas?

GreenSpottedPuffer · #1 11-17-2009, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Ok, I was going to stop talking but Brett's making me keep going. I'm completely innocent here.

FWIW, J&L also has orchid dottybacks in right now. They fit the bill for a splash of colour (not red or yellow but damn they are a sexy colour), open water swimmers (although like to have caves in rocks for a place to hang their hat), and generally regarded as the least aggressive dottyback. I'm not terribly certain how he would do with your other tankmates. Possibly OK, but ... I don't know for certain.

Mine is in a 115 cube and although the smallest fish, doesn't really fear anyone (but I see no issues of aggression). He did get a little cheesed when I added my eel, I guess as a fellow save dweller he didn't appreciate having to share all the rock holes. So he would swim very angrily around the eel when the eel was out. "Swim! Dart! Swim! Dart! Look at me! I'm small but I'm fast. Swim some more! Dart some more! Hey, come back here! I'm not done swimming towards you. Yeah I'm swimming to YOU buddy!" That's all it ever amounted to, the eel is mostly blind and took no notice, and they seem to accept each other now anyhow.

LOL....

Please don't stop! This is exactly what I was hoping for. Otherwise I just end up choosing from the fish I already know or are most common.

Another good idea and at this point, I don't think I will worry about color as long as the fish is brightly colored.

naesco · #2 11-17-2009, 07:53 PM

With the size of your tank and your wish to have a mid water fish I would consider a blue chromis. Not the aggressive one but the one with a yellow tail. They are active enough but peaceful, inexpensive and IMO a bright blue fish really looks impressive in a small tank. Just an option.

gobytron · #3 11-17-2009, 08:16 PM

I find chromis to be a lot like damsels, eventually always aggressive.

Also, while the orchid dottyback IS supposed to be one of the less aggressive dottybacks, it will certainly get a major hate on for your firesfish and any other conspecifics...

IMO I wouldn't chance any dottyback, wrasse or chromis/damsels in a smaller system I wanted to remain peaceful...

If the tank has a one or more mature sps in it, a couple of clown gobies always add a little colour and a lot of hilarity.

They do nip sps, but it actually seems to give larger pieces some incentive to pick up the pace ...smaller frags will suffer though.

Heres a half decent picture of my assessor...

Delphinus · #4 11-17-2009, 09:33 PM

Nice fish, gobytron!

GreenSpottedPuffer · #5 11-18-2009, 12:02 AM

Yeah thats a nice fish!

Im starting to think I might just go with a few more firefish and leave it at that instead of messing with the peacefulness. They are not all that active but they do swim around and with a few more maybe it would feel more active.

Or otherwise the Flame hawk is also at the top of the list right now

BlueAbyss · #6 11-18-2009, 01:50 AM

Hmm... I thought the Purple Firefish was one of those 'single or pairs' sort of fish. If you could keep a group of them, that would be awesome... they are beautiful fish (I love mine) and would be gorgeous as a group.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #7 11-18-2009, 02:16 AM

Not sure but my friend has 2 purples and 2 oranges together in a 60G no problem and I have seen large groups in bigger tanks before.

I have no idea though.

Mine are both about 2"-2.5" and get along great. But then again its only 2 of them. In any case I doubt I will end up with more. I have a feeling its either a flame hawk or a flame angel (but I worry about aggression with this one).

Anyone have any experiences to share about their Cherub Angels? My friends is great and very peaceful...is this normal? Would be a great angel since its max size is 3". Not much different from the Flame at 4" I guess.