Room 4 2 more! Help me choose them ;)

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  1. Magnus

    Magnus Sharknado

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    I have room in my tank for 2 more fish and I wanted to add a pair of wrasses or anthias, but I want them in a pair. So here is where the research begins.
    Whatever I add, definitely have to be safe for a mixed reef. No acro/softie eater/nibbler. It also has to be peaceful with the other inhabitants: fancy ocelaris, hippo tang, coral beauty, and the 2 small gobies. These will be the last 2 fish I'm adding, since I'll be maxed out on live stock.

    I would like some very colorful fishes that are not in the color ranges of what I already have. Coral beauty is royal blue and flame (mix between bright red and bright Orange... like a flame), the hippo is blue/black (of course), the ocelaris is the typical Orange and white, purple firefish goby, and oblique line goby (white background with coffee colored diagonal lines).

    As far as colors that I would like..... yellow and red would be preferred or a combination of both. Other bright colors I would like to see in my reef tank are green and pink. Not that I'm set on stone for the colors, but bright colors are a must for me. They have to pop.

    Please, let me know your suggestions for my last 2 fishies! Pictures are appreciated, but obviously not obligatory. Just let me know your favorites. Personalities that captivated u and we'll go from there.


    Thanks in advance for your help 3reef!!


    - Milton.

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  3. 2in10

    2in10 Super Moderator

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    Green fish you could do Green Chromis. They tend to stay in the upper portion of the tank and are out in the open all the time after acclimation.

    you put fish in your tank like me, gotta have a certain color to them.
     
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  4. Magnus

    Magnus Sharknado

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    I do, corals are the same, they're either bright or they're not in my reef :)

    I've had bad experience with a chromis at the beginning of my tanks life, so I try to stay away from their temperament and territorial personalities. I know not all are the same, but all I remember is calling him "my chromis from hell". He was one of the very colorful ones; half yellow/half purple and 110 percent mean :-(
    Needless to say he went back to the store after tormenting my lemonpeel angel to death. This was before sps's, of course.





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    dowtish Horrid Stonefish

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  6. Magnus

    Magnus Sharknado

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    I wish! I need to sell my car to buy those, bu then I won't be able to drive and get them food. It would be very nice though! Keep the suggestions coming, and thanks again for the help.
    I'll send some karma out as soon as I get home.




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  7. FaceOfDeceit

    FaceOfDeceit Hockey Beard

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    If you want Reds and Yellows, get a pair of Flame Wrasse's. To add pink, I suggest getting a pink tube anemone. My pink tube nem is BRIGHT! It's always out, bright, and adds movement too.
     
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  9. khowst

    khowst Bangghai Cardinal

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    Any of the Halichoeres wrasse are reef safe. They are listed on liveaquaria as not being reef safe but you can google countless forums and threads on here that say otherwise. The green one tends to get a little bigger than say the yellow of the xmas. I myself have a Hoeven's and he is a great active peacful fish, I will probably add a christmas wrasse in time as well, the two together would make a great color in the tank imo. Radiants are very pretty fish as well.

    Anthias are another very colorful choice but you'll have to watch cause some like a mini harem setting of 1 male 2 females, and some are more solitary.
     
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    1.0reef Giant Squid

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    pair of sunburst anthias i think would be best:)
     
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    mx36 Astrea Snail

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    +1 on the Hoeven's and what about a Midas Blenny
     
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    Sounds like a dottyback to me. Don't remember ever seeing one, cause I would have gotten one with that coloration. Chromis are from the Damsel family but are much more mellow IME.
     
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