What kind of weird/interesting fish should I get?

coral keeper

coral keeper

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I was just looking around at everyone's tanks right now and wanted to get something different, what kind of weird/interesting fish should I get? It has to be reef safe, and that includes it can't eat softies, LPS, SPS, clams, shrimp, and it has to fit in a 28 gallon nano cube and can't out grow the 28 gallon nano cube. I was thinking a filefish? Will a filefish work? I was thinking about one of these two: Colored Filefish (Pervagor melanocephalus) or Jade Filefish (Paramonacanthus japonicus).
 
draconis321

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I'm pretty sure they'll eat your softies but if you don't really care for your shrimp care bout your shrimp you could go for a mantis or a nice ghost or zebra eel
seahorses pipe fish are completely safe with every thing
 
mr_x

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if you have a lid, get a jawfish. the blue spot is beautiful, but a bit pricey, but the yellow headed pearly jawfish is cheap and both are very interesting to watch. go to a store and sit infront of their tank for a while, you'll be quite amused.
 
meeks101

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I don't know anything about a flifish but I thing youd like a cowfish! They are vegitarians so they won't eat your stuff and they are some of the wierdest looking fish you'll ever see! It is yellow with a horn on the top of it's head and two horns at the end of it's body. And a strange body shape. You have got to take a look at this fish, it's so strange it's cute!!!
 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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Originally Posted by meeks101
http:///forum/post/2712653
I don't know anything about a flifish but I thing youd like a cowfish! They are vegitarians so they won't eat your stuff and they are some of the wierdest looking fish you'll ever see! It is yellow with a horn on the top of it's head and two horns at the end of it's body. And a strange body shape. You have got to take a look at this fish, it's so strange it's cute!!!

Originally Posted by Coral Keeper
http:///forum/post/2712297
It has to be reef safe, and that includes it can't eat softies, LPS, SPS, clams, shrimp, and it has to fit in a 28 gallon nano cube and can't out grow the 28 gallon nano cube.
They are not reef safe and get over a foot long.
 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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Originally Posted by draconis321
http:///forum/post/2712423
I'm pretty sure they'll eat your softies but if you don't really care for your shrimp care bout your shrimp you could go for a mantis or a nice ghost or zebra eel
seahorses pipe fish are completely safe with every thing
Mantis shrimp, eh, If I get a mantis, I cant keep anything els in there.
 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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Originally Posted by Mr_X
http:///forum/post/2712460
if you have a lid, get a jawfish. the blue spot is beautiful, but a bit pricey, but the yellow headed pearly jawfish is cheap and both are very interesting to watch. go to a store and sit infront of their tank for a while, you'll be quite amused.
Yeah, I looked at the blue spotted ones, they are a pit pricey, about $150 a piece. Hmmm.... How deep of a sand bed do they need and will White Caribbean Aragamax Sand work for the jawfish or do they need another kind of sand? I have about 2.5-3 inches of sand in the 28 nano cube.
 
powderblutang

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Originally Posted by meeks101
http:///forum/post/2712653
I don't know anything about a flifish but I thing youd like a cowfish! They are vegitarians so they won't eat your stuff and they are some of the wierdest looking fish you'll ever see! It is yellow with a horn on the top of it's head and two horns at the end of it's body. And a strange body shape. You have got to take a look at this fish, it's so strange it's cute!!!
yea cool til it dies
 
sbaumann14

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catalina goby (nice coloration).... blue saphire damsel (one of the more tame damsels) or maybe a flasher wrasse which will only grow to about 3in or so
 
rebelprettyboy

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Originally Posted by sbaumann14
http:///forum/post/2713234
catalina goby (nice coloration).... blue saphire damsel (one of the more tame damsels) or maybe a flasher wrasse which will only grow to about 3in or so
Catalinas are cold water fish. If they werent Id have 2 right now!
 
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