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Originally Posted by
angeli697 http:///forum/thread/379652/i-need-help-picking-out-a-new-fish-and-coral-for-29-gallon-biocube#post_3300516
Here are some great anemones that go great with clown fish: Cryptodendrum adhaesivum, Entacmaea quadricolor, or a Heteractis magnifica. As for your other fish that you want, a mandarin dragonet would be a great addition to your tank. Maybe a few hermit crabs, or some kind of camel shrimp, or candy cane shrimp, good for scavengers/clean up crew.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
With the lighting and tank setup you have, I would only recommend a Bubble Tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor), if any. Does your clown host anything now? Remember, it's not a guarantee that your clown will take to the anemone at all. Then there is the other fear in a small tank: the anemone is not happy where you put it and it moves. IMO, a tank smaller than 55G, is really not suited for an anemone. What type of clownfish is it?
CAMEL shrimp are NOT reef safe, they eat coral. PEPPERMINT shrimp are the other option and they would be fine. They will sometimes eat aiptasia anemones, which is a plus, but it's never a guarantee.
Mandarins do not belong in that small of a tank and would be an extremely poor choice, especially since you made no mention of haging a refugium. Even a small mandarin could wipe out the copepod population in a 29G in less than 14 days.
Recommending BOTH a peppermint shrimp and a mandarin for such a small tank is also NOT a good idea. Peppermint shrimp are known to eat many copepods themselves, so there would be a constant demand on the popuplation of pods if both were added. A better option if you want a shrimp, is a pair of Skunk Cleaner shrimp, they're excellent scavengers and do better as pairs than singly.
As for the pincushion urchin:
I had one for a few weeks and HATED it. If your tank gets too clean, it will start to eat your coralline algae. If your rock work is not absolutely solid and steady, it will move it. They're also known as "decorator" urchins, which means they will pick up things, such as frags to help disguise themselves. I now have a Purple Urchin in my refugium and he does a good job. I don't know if an urchin is really the best option in a small tank. Do you have an algae problem that you're trying to address or just want to make sure that you never get one? Urchins require a lot of algae and I think that one "could" starve in a small tank.
As for a dwarf angel, it depends on what dwarf angel you're looking at. IMO, it would be pushing it, but is doable if you go with a small dwarf, and the only one I could see working would be the Coral Beauty or the African Flameback, any other is either going to nip at your corals or is too big.
Don't try another goby, my watchman has killed two other gobies on me already.
As Meowzer and Vinny Raptor already stated, putting any fish in a tank once a sixline is there can be tricky. How is your sixline towards the other fish in your tank? Have you added any fish since you added the sixline? IMO, a dwarf angel might be able to handle it's own. Other smaller fish to consider would be a dottyback/pseudochromi, both of which are probably better choices than a dwarf angel or a mandarin. Another option that would also help with algae would be a smaller blenny such as the bicolor or tail spot. Don't go with the bigger algae blennies such as a lawnmower blenny, your tank can not support one.
What do you have for a clean up crew? Just snails? What kind/how many?
