Looking for some ideas for 65gal tank

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I've had this 65gal tank setup for close to 2 years now and it has nothing in it as far as fish. It also has a 40 gal sump with a good skimmer. I use it sometimes as a timeout tank if one of my fish mis-behaves lol but usually it's got no fish, it just sits there. It has a good amount of LR, sand and some inverts like hermit crabs, a peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp, chocolate chip star, a few frags. But I can easily take these inverts and put them in my big tank if I need.
Anyway, I'm tired of having a lifeless tank and I'm looking for ideas of a COOL fish to put in it. Even if it's just one fish, I don't mind as long as its cool. Some ideas I have:
A fuzzy dwarf or maybe a couple of small lions.
An angler... would this work? Anyone have anglers? I know they eat other fish, but it'll be by itself so that's not a problem.
A small eel... although eels hide most of the time and it wouldn't make for an interesting species only tank. Or maybe it would.
That's about it as far as ideas I have. If anyone can offer some imput, I'd really appreciate it. One thing I don't like are clown fish. I'd rather keep this tank with just one or two cool fish.
 
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Oh, another idea I had... a ghoul fish or some other type of scorpion fish. But I don't know where I can get one. I see them for sale occasionally but I don't see any online store that has them now.
 
kylev

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I know the tank could be a little small when its full grown but i've always wanted to do a species only tank with a japanese dragon moray eel
 
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A dragon moray would be awesome but the tank is way to small for one. These things get huge! But one day... I really want one.

The clown trigger... a little monster is an understatement. lol I had to find him a new home because the agression increased along with the size.
 
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Well, I "inherited" a smallish Snow Flake eel and I put it in the 65gal for now. A friend has to move and sold all his tanks and fish and the Snowflake was the last one left, so I got from him. I'd say it's about 10", same size as my gold tail when I first got it. Seems fat and healthy, although it didn't want to eat Saturday or yesterday. Probably just stressed out over the move.
I figure I'll keep it in the 65 until it gets too big, then move it to one of my other larger tanks. Anyone know if it'd be able to live in the same tank as my gold tail? Would they fight?
 
kylev

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Nice addition to the 65. I've been pondering about the possibilty of adding one to my tank but am concern for the health of the smaller fish swimming around the rocks. Are you going to give him any tankmates?
 
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I was thinking of adding some damsels since it wouldn't be such a great loss if they get eaten and they'd add some color and movement.
If you want a really tame eel that doesn't get big, get a gold tail moray. Mine is such a pushover... the cleaner shrimp steals food right from its mouth, my tiny racoon butterfly tail flaps the poor eel in the face.
It's also really active, moving around the tank a lot. It's got 3 caves and it goes back and forth between them all the time.
 
kylev

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That's about the only time a damsel is worthy
I'll look into the gold tail moray, I'd like to add an eel at some point.
 
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