which fish should i add?

[Breezp]

I have a 45 gal reef tank, with a clownfish, yellow watchman, rainfordii goby, and two engineer gobies. There is not enough action for me, the only one that i see swim around is my clown... what should i add to the tank that would make it look nice? Ive tried tangs but they always die on me.... what should i do?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Some green chromis.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

in all honesty i would get rid of the engineer gobies, they get very large.

what kind of tangs have you tried before?

in a 45g a smaller anthias or wrasse should be ok. they swim around all day. you could also try your hand @ a pygmy angel.

 

[Deanos]

Something in the reef-safe wrasse family. Many are constant open-water swimmers, once they've acclimated to a tank.

 

[tomzpc]

The tank is too small for tangs anyway. I like the wrasse suggestion(a reef safe one of course).

 

[Breezp]

besides the fairy what wrasses are reef safe?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

6 lines are great.

 

[Breezp]

yea thats true...

 

[Deanos]

besides the fairy what wrasses are reef safe?

Here's 1 or 2: Reef-safe wrasses :Up_to_som

 

[Breezp]

lol ur the best deanos... im lovin the sarcasm rangehat

 

[Falco]

I also agree with the Wrasse suggestion. Here are a nice list of reef safe ones: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=1378

Your tank is to small for tangs and Anthias as they are aggressive swimmers and need lots of room. What about a dartfish like a firefish? I like the Chromis idea as well.

-Chris

 

[heuerfan]

Ive tried tangs but they always die on me.... what should i do?

You got my vote on wrasses!

What type of tangs did you buy, maybe just bad specimens. If you can keep the other fish, then you shouldn't have a problem with tangs either.

 

[nycmat]

try a purple tang its always a beautiful addition

 

[Breezp]

purple, powder blue, hippo, yellow, orange shoulder, scopas, blonde naso..... im nicknamed the tang killer by my co-workers...

its ok though cuz im going to buy some dwarf wrasses tomorrow... thnx

 

[heuerfan]

purple, powder blue, hippo, yellow, orange shoulder, scopas, blonde naso..... im nicknamed the tang killer by my co-workers...

its ok though cuz im going to buy some dwarf wrasses tomorrow... thnx

Wow, sounds like you had them all. I still think you probably bought bad tangs. In my experience if you find a healthy tang you shouldn't have any problems as long as your water parameters are in line.

Good luck with the wrasses.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

I kinda like the anthias idea, I think disbar anthias only get to about 4 inches, but I also agree with the engineer goby removal. They get big and they can cause land slides with all of their digging.

 

[Breezp]

yea, well see, thnx for all the info guys...

 

[scarf_ace1981]

how long did the tangs survive? did they eat?

 

[Breezp]

they all ate, the longest one was the yellow which lived for about a couple of months....

purple = 3days
hippo = 1 week
scopas= 2days
powder blue = 4 months
naso= 1 week
yellow = 6 months
orange shoulder = 3 weeks

my tank is sad .....

 

[Sean]

chalk basses are nice friendly fish and reef safe
yellow coris wrasses are also reef safe(didn't see them on your link denos or Falco's)
have you looked into fire fish?
cardinalfish are also nice and hardy additions. Plus you can get them captive raised