help me choose my new fish

skey44 · #1 12/05/2007, 01:02 AM

ok... i have a 5in regal angel a 3in scopas tang and a 3in royal gramma in a 75g sps tank and i want a new fish. what do you guys think... i am thinking a flame angel would be good in all aspects including color palette(red) but would like something a lil rarer that everyone doesn't have. i have plenty of filtration. maybe a trio of something that will swim in the open more. in the hundreds is ok... just not in the thousands or 10's of hundreds(like the angel from the cook's but cant afford it!)

happyface888 · #2 12/05/2007, 01:14 AM

What about a potters angel?

skey44 · #3 12/05/2007, 01:19 AM

thinking a little to close to regal angel colors... also interested in red shoulda said that- i am considering potter's too, but want something still a little more rare.

happyface888 · #4 12/05/2007, 01:27 AM

A male Flame wrasse

skey44 · #5 12/05/2007, 01:33 AM

ooo pretty.. but i don't have a top meant to include that too... man im difficult. thanks for the pic. is this yours?

happyface888 · #6 12/05/2007, 01:40 AM

Nope wow since the wrasse is knocked off the list it going to be hard since most red fish are wrasses. you have tomatto clowns, maroon clowns, flame hawkfish. Let me see what else.

skey44 · #7 12/05/2007, 01:46 AM

pixie hawk would be cool... also have a geo hawk(high fin perchlet) i could get but its a little small and secretive. maybe a flame angel is my best bet... are they all the same color or is there a better locale to get them?

happyface888 · #8 12/05/2007, 01:48 AM

I think there are 2 kinds one that super bright red which cost more and the other one thats not as bright red. It had something to do with location aswell.

happyface888 · #9 12/05/2007, 01:48 AM

heres the picture

skey44 · #10 12/05/2007, 01:53 AM

aha ... thanks

zippopunk1 · #11 12/05/2007, 02:06 AM

marine betta

skey44 · #12 12/05/2007, 02:16 AM

that's out there... i like them ... got one in the store's 240 it never comes out... i hate feeding it every week and it would eat smaller fish and shrimp- i may want to add some of these?

demonsp · #13 12/05/2007, 02:18 AM

You have a reagl tang in an sps tank. He will nip at the SPS poylps.
If you have a SB then some sandsifting goby would be essential.

skey44 · #14 12/05/2007, 02:23 AM

he doesn't nip at the sps...yet he nipped at the zoa's and i sold them all.

the sps are full on pe... at least as much as they were.

skey44 · #15 12/05/2007, 02:25 AM

don't sand sifting gobies eat too much microfauna? I am reducing my sandbed and actually thinking about switching it to a coarser grain that will stay put with flow and be easier to vacuum in the weekly water change

demonsp · #16 12/05/2007, 02:33 AM

I wouldnt vacuam the SB. Sandsifting goby sift through the SB all day cleaning and oxgenating it.He will also eat frozen and if you have a SB then you will wonder why you never had him before. They do dig under rock work so besure its secure. Microfauna? Nor sure waht that is but my daimond just sifts andkeeps trash contained from empty shells to dead coral in 1 area.And in a sps tank water quality is everything. Besides the fact that a well cared for SB will convert nitrate into harmless nitrogen. Just one more tool we can use for control. But if the SB is brownish and unoxgenated then it will only collect nitrates.

skey44 · #17 12/05/2007, 02:49 AM

small worms, microstars, copepods etc. that help keep the sand bed clean. i just read through a lot of research by dr. ron shim... and anthony calfo that advised against agressive sand sifters in a sand bed.... i am thinking about switching to a ssb bc of all the fuss about later problems with a dsb anyway and i don't want my sand duning anymore. my water quality isn't the issue i just want a cool red fish not too many other people have... but im finding flame angels are popular for a reason they are bright red and good hardy fish. the tahiti one is harder to come by and i can tell myself its rare bc of that

skey44 · #18 12/05/2007, 02:50 AM

you are supposed to vacuum detritus out of ssb's from everything i've heard. especially in sps tanks- detritus anywhere means less coral color.

zippopunk1 · #19 12/05/2007, 02:52 AM

thats funny my betta comes out and i even have it eating flake food guess thats why you always here no two fish are the same.

skey44 · #20 12/05/2007, 02:57 AM

true no two fish are the same... might be your situation too i have afeeling that a marine betta won't like how much flow i have.

just looking through LA- does anyone know if bluestar leopard wrasses are bad jumpers? thinking about one of these- i've seen them and they don't act like other wrasses as far as behavior so i was thinking they may not jump as bad.

demonsp · #21 12/05/2007, 02:58 AM

No you need the proper SB crew. If your SB is unhealthy then your whl tank will suffer. The SB combined with proper flow and the right CUC to keep it clean and crisp will convert ammonia into harmless nitrogen and if the SB is dirty and un oxygenated then it will only collect nitrates. Vacuming only removes wanted bacteria and pods and stirs up unwanted algea and cyno besides you will have to repalce after it slowly gets smaller.

skey44 · #22 12/05/2007, 03:08 AM

what is the anthias that is not low light? is this bartlett's?

LukFox · #23 12/05/2007, 03:59 AM

The leopard wrasse is a jumper, too. Most anthias can adjust to reef lighting, but they too are notorious jumpers.

How about a pair of fire clownfish?

zoiescout · #24 12/05/2007, 07:34 AM

I have two leopard wrasses (male and a female) and do not have any issues with them trying to jump out of the tank.

skey44 · #25 12/05/2007, 02:23 PM

yeah... they don't seem as "darty" as other wrasses, but they are wrasses, im thinking leopard or tahiti flame if i can find one.