I need help with new stuff

flower

flower

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Okay...I have some extra cash so I plant to make a SWF order, the nitrates are gone in the 90g so I'm ready for coral and I need another fish, or maybe two if they are small. I don't want any diggers, I would like something that is active and swims around. I'm even ready for some SPS coral, something easy. So please help me decide

My stock list:
Lawnmower Blenny
Lemonpeel angelfish
2 Perc clowns
Orchid dottyback
Coral frags in the tank now:
Blue mushrooms
Green stripe mushroom
Finger leather
Bubble coral
I have one side of the tank without MHs, just actinic, I figure I can put some non-photosynthetics on that side. I like bright colors, and I have a ton of coraline algae so blue won't show up. This tank has the Aquaripure on it so there is very little algae and even though I seeded the tank with amphipods and copepods, I don't think there are any in the tank at all. I have a refugium but no macros, just deep sand and a little rock. So what should I add?
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/386967/i-need-help-with-new-stuff#post_3401425
How about a couple of blue reef chromis and some bright orange ricordia shrooms
I was looking at those...I wasn't sure how many I could have in a tank, are they mean like damsels since they are in the same family? I haven't seen any BRIGHT color corals except the red chili or neon green....orange would look good and stand out. I have some work to do so I will check out the shrooms when I get back....
 
meowzer

meowzer

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OK...I have 2 blue reef chromis....HAD 3...LOL....They are not really expensive, so IF I were to do it over I would have gotten 3 at the same time....and NO...I do not see mean in them
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by Gemmy http:///forum/thread/386967/i-need-help-with-new-stuff#post_3401467
I like a harem of anthias. What about a wrasse?
Anthias look like goldfish to me, I've had them before...I liked the fins but they are ticky little fish. I landed up with one loney female for a few years. I had a yellow wrasse ONCE. It was all fine and healthy and as soon as I added it to my tank it swam around..looked at the sand and dug in, never to be seen again. So I never bothered with another and I read they eat bristle worms...I need my sand critters and CUC in tact.
The blue chromis is sounding better and better and they have the same color (going by a picture) that the Hippo tang had. I miss my baby.
 
flower

flower

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Okay I did some research on the blue chromis...it says they grow to be about 5 inches, and should be kept in a school of at least six. I like the idea they school but I'm a little concerned about having six 5 inch fish in a 90g tank. I would be comfortable with two, and even willing to add three....but six?
I can rehome the giant lawnmower blenny...but it still looks like overstocking a 90g.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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LOL 6
...like I said I would get 3....and FLOWER...they are beautiful.....I wish I had gotten them a lot sooner when someone had suggested them to me for the 225G
 
btldreef

btldreef

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gemmy http:///forum/thread/386967/i-need-help-with-new-stuff#post_3401467
I like a harem of anthias. What about a wrasse?
+1
Flower, I agree some look like goldfish, like the Lyretails, but there are some beautiful ones, like the Resplendents and the Red Capped.
If you have a top, I'd definitely add a flasher or fairy wrasse. One is not going to make a dent in your bristleworm population in a 90G. They are very colorful and add a lot of life weaving in and out of rock work all day. Many of the fairies and flashers aren't burrowers either.
A fish I've become obsessed with lately is the Yellow Accessor. It's in the basslet family.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by BTLDreef http:///forum/thread/386967/i-need-help-with-new-stuff#post_3401603
+1
Flower, I agree some look like goldfish, like the Lyretails, but there are some beautiful ones, like the Resplendents and the Red Capped.
If you have a top, I'd definitely add a flasher or fairy wrasse. One is not going to make a dent in your bristleworm population in a 90G. They are very colorful and add a lot of life weaving in and out of rock work all day. Many of the fairies and flashers aren't burrowers either.
A fish I've become obsessed with lately is the Yellow Accessor. It's in the basslet family.
I have no top, just a canopy making a taller tank for them to jump from.... I think it gives the tank a more finished look.... but it's open...I'm not so sure about the bristle worms, I had to seed the tank because everything got killed when my heater electrocuted the tank. I will go have another look at the anthias again but no basslets I already have an orchid dottyback and they would fight.
Research says the blue reef chromis are hard to keep alive...I thought they were hardy. Oh and thanks for the input...keep the ideas coming.....I would like to make an order this Tuesday.
 
flower

flower

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Sorry all the ones SWF have are not good looking. I like the Dispar (cool fins) but they look like goldfish just pinker. I'm still looking at the fish...what about a butterfly?
Well I looked at everything SWF has to offer...For my tank it looks like the blue Chromis is the best choice but wouldn't you know it..out of stock.
 
btldreef

btldreef

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I only have a canopy and netting on the back side and since adding the netting, fish have tried to jump, but just land back in the water. I love my Ciooerband Butterfly. I got lucky and he's ate frozen since day one and never touched a coral. I'm going to go peak at what SWF has in stock....
 
btldreef

btldreef

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Wow, just peaked, they have nothing!
The blue reef chromis are in stock: https://www.saltwaterfish.com/Blue-Reef-Chromis_p_5110.html
Just not the large ones, and you're better off getting the smaller ones so they form a harem.
What about a rabbit fish or a heniochus butterfly? Maybe a Kole tang?
 
flower

flower

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Well it's another site, I so much prefer SWF.... I have gotten fish from this other site before, and trust them. BTLDreef...LOL..I should kick your butt, I looked at wrasses and wow are they pretty,..now I have to figure out a way to put a tight fitting net over the tank.
Help me choose and give me some ideas of how to jump proof the tank. These fish are a good size (4 to 5 inches) so I'm thinking egg crate
Pink Margin fairy wrasse

or
Velvet multicolor wrasse
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Mine got thru egg crate

netting attached to the eggcrate would work.....and I will tell you this....the only thing I would buy from that other store is cuc....I was very disappointed with fish and coral from them and never tried them for that again
 
btldreef

btldreef

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I did a double layer of netting on the back of mine.
I love the pink margin, thought about it for my tank. They look really nice under actinics too.
Just a thought, SWF can sometimes get you a fish, even if it's not listed, if you call them.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/386967/i-need-help-with-new-stuff#post_3401690
Mine got thru egg crate

netting attached to the eggcrate would work.....and I will tell you this....the only thing I would buy from that other store is cuc....I was very disappointed with fish and coral from them and never tried them for that again
Really??? I got my Hectors goby from there and he is great. The first one didn't make it ..but as soon as they were back in stock (1 week) I reordered just that fish and they replaced it and the shipping..... I didn't have to order or pay for anything else and all was well. They have a 15 day guarantee. I was going to order the medium or large one so it wouldn't fit through the egg crate. I always go SWF first and order from them whenever they have that type of fish, but these are not listed as ever in stock.
 
flower

flower

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Okay I contacted SWF with my request.....I told them either one they could find at that size (4 to 5 inches) would be perfect, I would love to have either one......At that size the eggcrate will keep it from committing sushi. I lost an $80.00 purple tile fish the first night I had it because it jumped, and I have avoided such fish for many years because of it.
 
gemmy

gemmy

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I had the velvet multicolor wrasse in my 55 (sent the wrong one). It always hiding and was dull and boring.
 
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