Fish options for a 40g

ahh well if this is the way you want to go then be my guest

 

get rid of the wrasse because it needs more space, the dotty back is aggressive and maybe the falco but they can be aggressive and they will kill any shrimp. If you dont have a fuge or dont plan on having one then DO NOT get the dragonet, it will slowly die from starvation in your tank without a steady supply of pods

This would be it:
Falco Hawkfish (maybe)
Oc. clownfish
Starry Blenny
Dragonet (maybe)
Coral Beauty

 

Brennan!!!! lol you know he doesn't necessarily need a fuge. He could just do what I'm doing, which is get a separate tank with an airstone and pump and maybe some cool decoration like a skull and add some live copepods. feed them phyto plankton daily and the culture will grow

 

Ahaha I know, fuge means refugium. The definition of refugium is a place of refuge or shelter away from danger. So technically you have a refugium because you are keeping copepods in a seperate tank to provide refuge for them

 

Well the Dragonet wouldn't come for quite a while either way. I had originally planned to generate a population of pods before I added any Dragonet.

Brennan, considering that you subtracted some fish, would you add anything else to your list or keep it at those 5?

 

well yeah but i always consider it to be in a sump area XD

 

ocellaris pairs are cool; I recommend black and white. As a matter of fact a friend of mine on 3reef named Bloodkip is selling a black and white ocellaris pair for $40 plus shipping so maybe you can ask him or shoot him a PM

 

The dragonet would wipe out your pod population in a week or two, you need to have a refugium for them to reproduce safely and keep the tank populated away from predators. If it was my tank I would take the mandarin off and replace it with a species of goby like a yasha or watchman. Also I would take off the Falco hawkfish and get a royal gramma or bangaii cardinal maybe

 

Thats a great deal, I love BW clowns too, especially misbars

 

misbars look sexy XD :thumbs_up