Firefish

[pscheel]

Any chance of putting a Firefish in a 30 gal reef. Inhabitants are 2 percula clowns. The tank is 3 years old. Is this good or will I be overcrowding it?

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Pete

[TroyF]

I think a firefish would be a great addition to your tank. They are peaceful water column feeders. The purple firefish is particularily beautiful in my opinion. Welcome to the reeftank by the way.

Troy

[pscheel]

Thanks for the welcome! I always research before adding anything to the tank(s)

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Pete

[FishDaddy]

Hi Pete,

A Firefish should be fine but be aware they sometimes like to jump so make sure you don't have any open areas above your tank. The Percs might be territorial at first but should settle down once they get used to the newcomer and if the Firefish has nooks and crannies in the rock to take refuge.
Glad to have you aboard,
Dick

[Kinesthesia]

Welcome !

And while I don't have any intelligent input on the subject, I'd just like to say Welcome and that I'm kinda envious. I've only been in this hobby about a year, and I'm on my 3rd tank now, so I don't yet know what it's like to have a tank running for that length of time !

Me too, my third reef is 4 years old or 6 weeks depending on how you count

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[Wrasse Man]

Welcome to the board! It is good to have you.

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"Nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank."

[pscheel]

Thanks everyone. I will re-arrange my rock just in case the percs get a little aggresive. This tank is the baby of the group, my other tanks are going on 4 and 5 years. I'm glad to be aboard.

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Pete

[Raszagil]

Hi pscheel!

Welcome to The Reef Tank! Firefish (Nemateleotris magnifica) rock, I have one in my 20L tank right now with two false percula clowns, without the slightest difficulty. They can be a little shy though, mine has a favorite hidy-hole he always ducks into when I move too quickly and frighten him.

Firefish are very hardy IME, though FishDaddy is right they'll jump if given the chance.

Here's some links on Firefish:

http://ffexpress.com/fish/gobies/firefish.htm http://ffexpress.com/fish/gobies/firefish_prp.htm http://www.petwhse2.com/gillsgrotto/...refishgoby.asp http://www.janetsreef.com/firefish.htm

Raz

[inlandreef]

Just for asthetics, I'd have a few firefish.
Just an un-edumacated viewpoint of course.

[Brooke]

Firefish are very cool. We had ours in a 20g with percula clowns and they pretty much ignored each other. The firefish will probably eventually make a cave near the sandbed and live there most of the time. When the firefish got moved to our 100g tank they didn't come out nearly as often as they did in the 20g. I think they were quite comfortable hovering around in the little reef. I would try to get two, but make sure they have been together and are a male-female pair. Otherwise if kept in groups..Scott Michael's Marine Fishes says that one individual will usually chase the others until he kills one or all of them. Eek! Feed a good varied diet enriched with Selcon and you'll have happy firefish.

Good luck-
Brooke