Advice please: fish selection!

[daplatapus]

Like the others mentioned, I'd start looking at live aquaria. They've got tons of info and compatibility. I like the clowns, love my flame angel. Yellow eye Kole tang will fit in that size of tank and I have one in mine, he's got tons of personality and only has personality issues with my starry blennny - not sure why.
I also like the look of lemon peel angels but they may not get along with the flame angel. I also like long nose butterfly fish but make sure they're eating at the LFS and there are some coral cautions there you need to be aware of.
I feel no tank is complete without a couple shrimp - skunk cleaners, peppermint, sexy to name a few. I love mine.

That should give you a good list to start checking anyway...

[gridley]

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I will be checking our liveaquari.com in a few minutes. We will then post some of our thoughts later tonight / tomorrow morning for more input - thanks!

[gridley]

After a day of visiting LFS, reading, checking out websites, here are my first thoughts - I'd love advice / input on this

Pair of True Percula
Pajama Cardinalfish
Banggai Cardinalfish
Royal Gramma Basslet
one Kale Yellow Eye
one Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish
several - not sure what species - gobies
several - not sure what species - wrasses

Thanks for your thoughts

[Proteus]

I'd be wary of a butterfly in a reef.

The rest is all good. Sand sifting gobies can make a mess and you'll have cloudy water. IMO

As for wrasses I love em. Though you'll need a covered tank

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yes, the butterflyfish is also not as hardy and is risky for newbie.

Pajama cardinals are also very boring - stay still in one place IME. Otherwise like your list.

[mandyplo]

Yee-haw to the yellow eyed kole tang and wrasses.

I love my yellow eyed kole tang, we had a hair algae breakout in our tank and he made quick work of it. I am also a FREAK about wrasses, I love them. Go nuts.

Heres some tips on what NOT to get: Damsels. Damsels. DAMSELS!!!!

That is all.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by mandyplo

Heres some tips on what NOT to get: Damsels. Damsels. DAMSELS!!!!

That is all.

Actually, while I agree that most damsels turn into little terrors, my experience has been that yellow-tail blues and fusilier damsels are among the best of the bunch. Fusilier damsels also school all the time, which is nice to see in a tank.

[burgerchow]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Actually, while I agree that most damsels turn into little terrors, my experience has been that yellow-tail blues and fusilier damsels are among the best of the bunch. Fusilier damsels also school all the time, which is nice to see in a tank.

Yo, I just bought 3 Fiji blues to put into my reef. A lot of people forget that damsels are the true reef fish. Nothing light the sight of a bunch of damsels around a reef head , each protecting their own 12" of real estate. Lol

[gridley]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Actually, while I agree that most damsels turn into little terrors, my experience has been that yellow-tail blues and fusilier damsels are among the best of the bunch. Fusilier damsels also school all the time, which is nice to see in a tank.

SO, how agressive have your yellowtail blues been?

[mandyplo]

If you want schooling fish with no worries of it terrorizing anyone or anything in your tank I would go with some Anthias. They school and I have a bunch who are beautiful, peaceful and amazing to watch. They really add that orange pink and purple "pop" to the tank!

I've had the yellowtail blue damsels and they drove one of my blue chromis' to death, nasty little buggers. I traded them back to the LFS immediately, they were the most aggressive fish I've had. Them and the Clarkii clowns I had.... they killed off all of my shrimp and a blue chromis aswell