New fish suggestions

[holley123]

I'm lookin at putting some new fish in my tank nothing to expensive and I would prefer something that is somewhat hardy. I have a 56 gal reef with 2 black clowns, and a medium size flame angel. Any suggestions? I want something that will really pop and has bright colors

 

[cr500_af]

If you don't mind making screen tops, you can't go wrong with reef-safe wrasses. They are tons of beautiful ones and they are (for the most part) pretty easy to keep if you take a couple of precautions (which will mean a QT if you don't have one already)... for example, they can be prone to intestinal parasites so it is smart to medicate new wrasses prophylactically.

 

[ruadh]

+1 on the Midas blenny

 

[holley123]

Midas Blenny is for sure gonna get a spot in there. My thoughts are : 2 black clowns, flame angel, Midas Blenny, mandrine, some wrasses, and the last fish I'm gonna put in is a yellow tang. That's just off the top of my head. Anybody have any objections about them mixing?

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cr500_af;736566 wrote: If you don't mind making screen tops, you can't go wrong with reef-safe wrasses. They are tons of beautiful ones and they are (for the most part) pretty easy to keep if you take a couple of precautions (which will mean a QT if you don't have one already)... for example, they can be prone to intestinal parasites so it is smart to medicate new wrasses prophylactically.

I feed all my new fish metro/ focus for 2 weeks just to be on the safe side. Never really had any experience with wrasses mostly just clowns, Blennies, butterfly's, and tangs

 

[cr500_af]

You'd better either have a really good refugium or be prepared to buy bottled pods regularly... otherwise a Mandarin will likely starve.
And the yellow tang will pretty quickly outgrow a 56 gallon tank. Also, this is getting pretty heavily stocked with that list... especially so if "some wrasses" means more than a couple. The wrasses also will outcompete a Mandarin for the pods that are there, further compounding the starvation problem.

 

[holley123]

Yea it's Probably just gonna be a mandarin and the yellow tang will be small and not long term. My tank is heavily populated wIth Pods its crazy There is some in there around 1/2 inch and millions of small ones. I was also thinking of puting one black clown in my brothers tank and getting a snowflake clown (my favorite). This is gonna be the tank that has all of my favorites (frogspawn, nuke green zoas, brightgreen gsp, pulsing xenia, flame angel, black clown, long tenticle toadstool, purple mushroom, feather duster, gbta, bright green candy cane, blue tubbs)

 

[cr500_af]

The thing with the pods is, you can have tons now... but eventually (with a mandarin) they have to be able to reproduce as fast or faster than they get eaten. That takes a productive refugium or a lot of live rock. Not saying you can't do it... I have two in a 120-ish gallon system, but I had to give the pods plenty of real estate to do their thing in.

 

[holley123]

So how many lbs of rock would you suggest? I was gonna go with 100 and I have 75 now

 

[cr500_af]

IMO 100 is plenty... that's about what I have in my whole system. I think part of what helps me is the 30g frag tank that is attached has a good bit of rock in the bottom and no fish at all to eat pods, so it becomes a sort of refugium also.

 

[holley123]

Yea I believe I may end up with more than 100lbs due to my zoa addiction lol