Top 10 reef tank fish

[drew1092]

What are the top 10 fish to have (or inverts) in your reef tank? Just thought I would throw this one out there and see what everyone's opinion is. I have a smaller 30 gallon reef and I'm just about ready for my first fish. What do you guys like?

[Loverotties]

10 is to many for a nano.

[Dragonist]

I have 1 of these in my 55g reef. I love this fish dearly...the pure black of its scales is awesome imo. Also per liveaquaria.com you can house 1 in your reef

The Black Nox Angelfish, also known as the Midnight Angelfish, is uniformly black over its entire body.

It requires at least a 30 gallon tank with lots of hiding places. The Black Nox Angelfish should be the only dwarf angelfish in the tank. It is not a good reef dweller and may eat soft coral polyps, clam mantles, and zoanthids.
It is very difficult to breed in an aquarium, and has no distinguishable differences in color between male to female. The diet of the Black Nox Angelfish should include Spirulina, marine algae, mysis shrimp along with other meaty fare, and live rock for grazing.

[firsthesitation]

Dwarf angels typically fight thats why you're limited to 1, but they also eat corals so for a "reef" tank they're no good either.

If you're looking for a good list of Nano fish check this link out.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/a....cfm?c=15+2124

But I agree Loverotties, 10 fish of any of those sizes is too much for a nano.

[drew1092]

Sorry rotties, what I meant was what are your top 10 picks for reef tanks in general-not all in one tank. What are your top 10 or 5 or 3 or... whatever picks for a reef tank? Just getting excited because next week is the big day (if all goes well) for my first fish. Looking for ideas. Beauty, ease of care, pure utilitarian purposes; what kind of fish do people like to round out a reef?

[drew1092]

[quote=Dragonist;1585530]I have 1 of these in my 55g reef. I love this fish dearly...the pure black of its scales is awesome imo. Also per liveaquaria.com you can house 1 in your reef

The Black Nox Angelfish, also known as the Midnight Angelfish, is uniformly black over its entire body.

That is a bad looking fish! I have heard that angelfish can be nasty and eat anything slower than them. Is that true? I see the common flame angel and would love that one day, I heard many say look out for it though. Maybe just in a small tank?

[quader94]

a sixline, a splash of color and swims all around- my top pick
a blenny of somesort
a firefish
a goby
a clown or 2

[Dragonist]

That is a bad looking fish! I have heard that angelfish can be nasty and eat anything slower than them. Is that true? I see the common flame angel and would love that one day, I heard many say look out for it though. Maybe just in a small tank?

When housing Pygmy angels you have a chance that they will eat corals. Some will some won't. I have had a Coral Beauty, and now I have A Midnight Angel(aka Black Nox Angel). Neither of them eat any corals. I feed my reeef Formula 2 pellets and mysis shrimp and Blacksamus(my Midnight Angel) destroy them both(in english eats them very fast).

[Marine]

i like yellow tangs the most out of any fish i also like foxfaces, azure damsels, clowns, corals beauties , and hippo tangs look preety cool. i like pretty much every tang i haven't found one yet i didnt like.

[crvz]

Originally Posted by Marine

i like pretty much every tang i haven't found one yet i didnt like.

none of which are appropriate for a 30 gallon.

[chrisd]

carpenters flasher wrasse

[Siberman]

Royal Gramma

Bicolor pseudochromis (may eat bristle worms)

Yellow Goby

Firefish

Cardinals

Scarlet hermit crabs (with the yellow eye stalks)

Micro-stars

Nassarius snails

Cerinth snails

Bumblebee snails

[Marine]

Originally Posted by crvz

none of which are appropriate for a 30 gallon.

i totally agree but im being a total hypocrite by saying that because i have a yellow tang in a 45 gallon.

[rookie reefer]

Originally Posted by Marine

i totally agree but im being a total hypocrite by saying that because i have a yellow tang in a 45 gallon.

i would not have mentioned that, the tang police are going to be all over you lol

[Dragonist]

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