Just can't decide what else to put in!!

[lolly1]

Hello!
After over a year of slowly putting my tank together and getting it ready, it is FINALLY at the stage where I can put living beings in it AND NOW I JUST CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND WHAT TO PUT IN!!! I have a 55 gallon which will eventually be a reef tank. So far I have a pair of false percs and a very shy lawnmower blenny. The lawnmower has been in for about 2 weeks and now I am gearing up to get another gilled friend in the next couple of weeks. I would really like to get a few more fish which are colorful, have personalily, and like to be SEEN! I don't care for cardinals and would REALLY like a redheaded wrasse, but want to make sure I choose fish that are also appropriate for my experience level (noob). I'm thinking I definitely would like to get a flame angel but I think I would like to put it in last since they have a slightly more agressive personality. Please give me lots of suggestions of what good additions would be to my tank!! Thanks so much!!

 

[30-xtra high]

add a royal gramma, bicolor blenny, 3 blue/green chromis, sixline wrasse, and your flame angel, in that oreder :joy:

 

[quaos]

Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse

 

[teresaq]

I agree on some of 30's picks. but not really into 6 line wrasse.
I would go more like
royal gramma -purple and red
firefish either red or purple.
fairy wrasse. they are reef safe red or multi colored
clown goby - yellow
or neon gobie pair

 

[lolly1]

Originally Posted by 30-xtra high
add a royal gramma, bicolor blenny, 3 blue/green chromis, sixline wrasse, and your flame angel, in that oreder :joy:
I have been warned against getting another blenny with my lawnmower. I guess they can get kind of territorial with fish that are like themselves. I like the royal gramma suggestion...however would a purple pseudochromis have the same type of personality?
Keep the suggestions coming!

 

[deadmanschest]

the only problem i see is that the purple psuedo is a really mean fish and he will tear a firefish to peices. and he is MEAN!!! and AGRESSIVE. I swear they are spawns of the devil. so leave the psuedo out and all will be fine.

 

[lolly1]

Originally Posted by deadmanschest
the only problem i see is that the purple psuedo is a really mean fish and he will tear a firefish to peices. and he is MEAN!!! and AGRESSIVE. I swear they are spawns of the devil. so leave the psuedo out and all will be fine.
Hmm...ok. Well, my mom has a royal gramma in her tank and I don't want to have exactly the same things she has...so I thought the purple pseudo would be a good substitute. Back to the drawing board, I guess. I think I might just have to accept the fact that my choices are very limited with a 55 gallon!

 

[teresaq]

yeh. when i had my 55 gal you can only fit so many fish.
I had a bi-color with my lawnmwer.
you could do a red and purple firefish. fairy wrasse, a yellow clown goby and flame angel

 

[whitey_028]

firefish are cool for a 55 i would go with a few of those and a couple gobies and lots of different inverts as they are as neat to watch as the fish...

 

[30-xtra high]

if you're against the bicolor and royal gramma, i'd replace them with a pair of purple firefish, and a flasher wrasse

 

[lolly1]

How about this:
1 red-headed wrasse (if I can get my hands on one...if not then maybe a sixline or flasher wrasse)
1 black cap basslet
3 blue reef chromis
1 flame angel.
Will that all work?? Will they get along and would it be overcrowding with the 3 I have in there already?? Thanks for all the help!

 

[30-xtra high]

that'd probly be ok, blackcaps can be aggressive, and i'd go with the sixline due to their constant movement they really make the tank seem more alive

 

[lolly1]

Originally Posted by 30-xtra high
that'd probly be ok, blackcaps can be aggressive, and i'd go with the sixline due to their constant movement they really make the tank seem more alive
Really?! SWF says they are "peaceful"! Maybe I'll take my chances on this one and try a blackcap anyway. Just to clear up one more thing: are blue reef chromis the same as blue/green chromis??

 

[a sea k]

No. Go with the blue/green chromis. Another choice instead of the purple pseudo would be P. fridmani (orchid dottyback). This is about the only non aggressive basslet and the color is very nice. Should work nicely.

 

[ci11337]

Get a flasher wrasse!! I just got one and he's awesome! Always out in the open and he's VERY colorfull. Here's the best pic i could get, (i'm haveing camera problems)