10 is to many for a nano.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=15+2124

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

 

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?

 

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

 

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).

 

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.

 

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

none of which are appropriate for a 30 gallon.

 

carpenters flasher wrasse

 

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

 

I thought I heard AQUAWOLf...A dunna dunna(mario koopa fight music)

 

Potter's Angel. But they nip

 

Thanks for all the suggestions. I really like fire fish but I here they are known jumpers. I don't have a canopy on my tank and worry about him jumping. Any one have the watchman goby/pistol shrimp combo? I have read some articles on these guys working with each other and it sounds really interesting. Any one have success getting them to host each other?

 

Bartletts Anthias is my favorite fish. Gorgeous colors, it just reminds me of swimming on the reefs. And they like to swim a lot.....but I have one in my 45 and hes happy as pie. If you hold just one, then he would be okay in your 30 but no more than one anthias.

 

sounds cool. I like the fish that swim rather than hang out at the bottom. Just got my first fish, a 6 line. Now that he's acclimated and comfortable he darts all over the tank. Does the Bartletts Anthias like to swim higher in the tank? I would like to balance out where the different fish like to hang. Thanks for you comments!

 

Mind you......anthias arent cheap......your looking at 25-50 bucks for a bartletts anthias. But I looooove mine! He swims in the rocks.....but swims out in the open mostly. Occasionally he will hide....but I like that, it shows how much of a reef fish he really is. A lot of people like to keep anthias in groups.......and if I had the tank for a group I would have 6-8 of them. Fun fish to watch.

 

whatever you get make sure it is eating (not picking at) whatever food you will be feeding it before you buy it. blennies especially can be really picky eaters. i would not recommend algae blennies for this reason.

 

if you go cardinals by two and THATS IT because i bought 3 and one got bashed into a cave and starved to death

 

if you get alge buy a lawnmower blenny

 

every time i put my hand in the tank he allways nipps it but it dosent hurt he just thinks its a game

 

an algae blenny may not like the algae in your tank and die. they need a lot of algae. getting critters to take care of problems is a bad idea.

 

gsm clowns
black nox angel
canary wrasse not for 30
juvi red coris wrasse not for 30
magnificent foxface not for 30
super tongan narussus snails
chestnut snails
astrea snails
left hand hermits
zebrra hermits

 

you have to have clown fish.

 

engineer gobies are my favorite they can be kept in groups are extremely hardy great community fish great sand sifters and they look like an eel when they get bigger.

 

pull the tank over and show us the gallon card