sailfin tang
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Ok my tank has been set up for 8 or 9 months now and I am looking to add fish.
My blue damsel (Dave) made it through the cycle and has had the tank to himself for all that time, or atleast until I added the clean up crew a few weeks ago.
After reading many posts on this site I have come to the conclusion that damsels (even Dave) are evil, or atleast bad for the peaceful reef I have in mind.
I asked my aquarium maintenance guy if he had a home for Dave the Damsel and he said sure he had a restaurant account that had damsels.
I said great go ahead and get him out so I can move forward with getting fish without having to worry about them being chased and nipped.
Well last week he tried to get him out and couldn't, he said he went about it the "wrong way" and would try again this week.
I get a call @ work today and he says "I'm havin some trouble".
He said he had to take all the LR out cause Dave was fast and kept going behind the rocks.
He said he took the last rock out but figured out (I guess reasonably quickly) that Dave was no longer in the tank.
He said Dave must have swum in a hole in a piece of LR.
I said so Dave's in a rock on my floor? He says yeah sorry I think he has to be.
Well to shorten what has become a lenghty post (sorry) he restacks my LR and leaves calling me to tell me there's no sign of Dave and that he believes he has to be dead or trapped and soon to be dead.
Well I get home from work a few hours later and of course there's Dave looking no worse for wear. As a matter of fact when I look real close he appears to be smiling.
My aquarium maintence guy was surprised to hear Dave was alive and said he will try agian next week.
My tank has been pretty stirred up the past couple of weeks and I don't want to keep doing that.
I think I have decided that Dave the Damsel gets to stay.
So finally to my question.
If I decide to get Dave some more damsel friends to school around with what other fish can I safely have?
I was hoping for
1 Tang probably yellow
1 six line wrasse
1 (or pair) clown
1 foxface
1 flame hawkfish
Maybe add some shrimp to my cleanup crew
Different corals and maybe an anemone.
What I have...
80 gallon bow front
90-100 lbs of live rock
10 turbo snails
15 naso snails
20 mixed hermits
1 serpent star
1 brittle star
4 emerald crabs
4 cleaner clams
420 calsium
KH-196.9
Phosphate 0
Nitrate-0
Thanks for any fish suggestions you have
My blue damsel (Dave) made it through the cycle and has had the tank to himself for all that time, or atleast until I added the clean up crew a few weeks ago.
After reading many posts on this site I have come to the conclusion that damsels (even Dave) are evil, or atleast bad for the peaceful reef I have in mind.
I asked my aquarium maintenance guy if he had a home for Dave the Damsel and he said sure he had a restaurant account that had damsels.
I said great go ahead and get him out so I can move forward with getting fish without having to worry about them being chased and nipped.
Well last week he tried to get him out and couldn't, he said he went about it the "wrong way" and would try again this week.
I get a call @ work today and he says "I'm havin some trouble".
He said he had to take all the LR out cause Dave was fast and kept going behind the rocks.
He said he took the last rock out but figured out (I guess reasonably quickly) that Dave was no longer in the tank.
He said Dave must have swum in a hole in a piece of LR.
I said so Dave's in a rock on my floor? He says yeah sorry I think he has to be.
Well to shorten what has become a lenghty post (sorry) he restacks my LR and leaves calling me to tell me there's no sign of Dave and that he believes he has to be dead or trapped and soon to be dead.
Well I get home from work a few hours later and of course there's Dave looking no worse for wear. As a matter of fact when I look real close he appears to be smiling.
My aquarium maintence guy was surprised to hear Dave was alive and said he will try agian next week.
My tank has been pretty stirred up the past couple of weeks and I don't want to keep doing that.
I think I have decided that Dave the Damsel gets to stay.
So finally to my question.
If I decide to get Dave some more damsel friends to school around with what other fish can I safely have?
I was hoping for
1 Tang probably yellow
1 six line wrasse
1 (or pair) clown
1 foxface
1 flame hawkfish
Maybe add some shrimp to my cleanup crew
Different corals and maybe an anemone.
What I have...
80 gallon bow front
90-100 lbs of live rock
10 turbo snails
15 naso snails
20 mixed hermits
1 serpent star
1 brittle star
4 emerald crabs
4 cleaner clams
420 calsium
KH-196.9
Phosphate 0
Nitrate-0
Thanks for any fish suggestions you have
