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Old 03-08-2007, 07:43 PM   #1
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help pick a fish


ok, sooo, I have a nearly empty tank. It needs a showpeice fish. and I need opinions.

Its a 20H.
occupants: new sailfin blenny (hes soo buggly, his name is ugly) 2 mollies (which can/will go back to freshwater soon)
2 pep shrimp
2 misc blackish snails
red footed conch (I want another few of these, they are really neat!)
tube anemone (corner blocked off sandbed-I do need more sand though)
rock anemone
zoanthids
featherdusters
GSP (kinda-they aren't looking too good, too high of flow)

now, I want one more fish. just one. Before I found ugly, I was thinking a pair of clowns, but I got ugly. SO, just one. something showy...

at the LFS they also had filefish, and a waspfish... neither would do ok in my tank, aren't tilefish coral eaters? otherwise that would be an AWESOME addition. not the wasp though, its HUGE and my youngest is a daredevil. (if anyone in the area wants a wasp or tile, I can point ya in the right direction, I'll also be in the TC area at the end of the month-they ARE sometimes hard to find)

I think a pair of clowns would be pushing my tank with ugly in it. although the mollies are messy, I just don't want to push it. specially since they'll be gone soon to better, less salty pastures.

anyone have a good suggestion? I just can't think. I'd like something kinda slow, but flashy. not a big jumper (wrasses-ack, not again) maybe a fairy wrasse, but I really don't want to cover the tank again... I suppose I could, just not in the mood...
I'm rambling...

you give your 'I'd die for' in a 20 gallon fishies list!!!
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Old 03-08-2007, 10:32 PM   #2
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the problem is that most any fish small enough for the 20h will be a jumper.

not sure which you meant above, but filefish are coral eaters, while tilefish are planktonivores.

unfortunately fairy/flasher wrasses would prolly be your best bet for a small showy fish. you might get away with a dwarf angel depending on the corals in the tank.

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Old 03-09-2007, 05:52 AM   #3
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oops, I ment filefish... hmmm, both times

figures that the fairys are about the showiest... I just knew it. *sighs* they get a little bigger than flashers, right (thats what I had last time) flashers can fit through eggcrate if they are determined enough. (found that out last time too) if Fairys have a bigger body, then I'll be ok with a nice fairy.

its too bad that filefish are coral eaters... the ones in there are VERY nice looking. green tassled. They look like peices of seaweed.
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Old 03-09-2007, 07:35 AM   #4
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I like my Yellow Coris wrasse - or my filemented wrasse but borthof mine are pretty mellow and I have covered tanks So I'm really not much help am I
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Old 03-09-2007, 04:26 PM   #5
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I have eggcrate sitting around... I CAN really do a cover on the top. I just remember my flashers being able to get through the eggcrate if they were desperate enough(stupid tomato clowns) I saved them twice, but they didn't make it...

but now, my tank IS mellow enough for them... hmmm
now, I did start looking at them again for the first time in two years last night, and I noticed most of them are rated at 30+ gallon tanks.

any reccomendations? mine was a trio of... oh, gosh, I forget. They were sold as carpenters, but I don't think they were. it was 2 years ago, in college. I don't think I'm required to remember what happened in college, am I?
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