If you could start over again! Fish List!

Allyson · 10-21-2004, 08:19 AM

I'm trying to put together a list of fish for my 135, shallow sand bed, lots of hiding/swimming areas (only ~120 lbs LR), mostly softie tank. I've never had a reef tank over 40 gal so I'm in a new realm here and would like suggestions.

So....if you could start over again (with a 135) what would your fish list look like?

Ranran · 10-21-2004, 10:46 AM

Let me see I would put in a multi colored drawf angel, a yellow eye kole tang, a lepord wrasse a mystery wrasse, a lined rabbit fish, a rainford goby and just to top it off a regal angel. Oh wait a minute thats my current fish list. LOL
Randy

JANGO · 10-21-2004, 11:44 AM

This is what i would put in
2-CBB
1-Agae Blenny
2-Flasher wrasse
1-Golden wrasse
2-Fire fish

that is my fish list for my upcoming tank...

reefBoyDc · 10-21-2004, 06:29 PM

1. Gws

reefworried124 · 10-21-2004, 07:48 PM

Let me give it a shot okay? Here goes... ready....okay.....ready?...I am
uh here we go...

2 perculas
1watchman goby
1 blue hippo tang
2 royal grammas
1 algae blenny
1 mandarin (spotted)
1 foxface
1 rainbow trout

Ranran · 10-21-2004, 08:08 PM

Thats what I forgot on my list was my mated pair of true percs! Great fish.
Randy

Deuce24 · 10-21-2004, 10:00 PM

Powder Blue Tang, I drool every time I go to the LFS and see them. Sooooo amazing.

Phishnoob · 10-21-2004, 10:25 PM

Bird wrasse, lawn mower blenny and a cute little goby. A coral beauty would be good in there as well.

A maroon clown would be nice for a tank that size as well.

Tasher80 · 10-21-2004, 11:04 PM

Not sure about the rest but I really love Mandarin Fish. They are so beautiful. I will get one someday after my tank is very mature to handle one.

tims · 10-22-2004, 06:19 AM

what a good way to get answers .......
ummm..
a flying gunard, foxface, LMB, dwarf flame hawk, maybe a shoal of chromis,and a nice ( i like the orange) fiary wrasse...

Boxster · 10-22-2004, 06:49 AM

how bout a 6 line wrasse? and some guppies

tdwyatt · 10-22-2004, 11:03 PM

well I WOULDN'T buy a MORON clown...

The one I have has survived two moves, the loss of its host during a 6 day power outage, the power outage itself, 2 days of sub-50F water during a heater event while I was out of town, and the unknown presence of a 3-inch mantis that was in the display tank for years taking an occasional victim until its discovery.

This April will be its 10th anniversary with me, it just keeps growing...

can't seem to give it away though, even if it IS a Moron...

reefworried124 · 10-23-2004, 11:46 AM

Man, I want a mandarin so bad I can taste it!! Too bad my tank is too small

Andrew3 · 10-23-2004, 10:55 PM

10 green chromis
4 yellow coris wrasse (semi-fine to fine sand needed)
2 tank bred fridmani pseudochromis
6 orange striped cardinalfish
2 black and white ocellaris tank bred (w/captive split RBTA)
2 tiger jawfish
2 blue tilefish (and a tight fitting top or screen on the tank)
1 radiant wrasse (H. iridis)
1 grammistes fang blenny

that just about sums it up.
Andrew

Allyson · 10-25-2004, 10:00 AM

Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to look into all the fish suggested.

I currently have a Yellow Tang and Lawnmower Blenny and picked up a Coral Beauty Friday.

Here's what I'm contemplating adding
1 or 2 wrasses
Mandarine fish (tank is swarming with pods)
Pair of clowns...hubby likes the maroon, I like the skunks
Either a Powder Blue (although they are very "fragile" and I'm not sure) or a hippo tang
5 Chromis

and that's it....don't want too many fish.

I'm staying away from psuedochromis (mean, mean fish eats shrimp).

Wow Tom...10 yr old Maroon clown. I had a pair of silver dollars and pleco that lived just over 10 years. It's pretty awesome!