so i want to revamp my fish list, right now its pretty ordinary and plain, its a 75 gallon tank i have a lyretail anthias, yellow wrasse, bluethroat trigger, 2 black clowns, engineer goby, scooter blenny. i am getting rid of the bluethroat and the anthias. i want to replace them with some cool fish i cant do any wrasses beause my stupid yellow wrasse is a huge bully. its an sps reef i would love an angelfish but it doesent seem like any of them will be ok around sps atleast in my size tank any suggestions?
need to switch it up
- Thread starter Jarrett
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When I had my 75 I had a few tangs, a rabbitfish, a couple wrasses and a jawfish. Gotta dig up a pic to be more accurate but tangs are definitely nice!
Oh and if you want angelfish, I would suggest looking into the dwarf angelfish. I had a flame, potters, eibli and coral beauty. Always wanted a lemonpeel as well.
Oh and if you want angelfish, I would suggest looking into the dwarf angelfish. I had a flame, potters, eibli and coral beauty. Always wanted a lemonpeel as well.
Ha! I found an old pic of my 75, my youngin days in the hobby lol
I would suggest NOT getting any damsels those were nooby mistakes, but that rabbitfish was the best fish I had, he lived from like 2007/8 to last year 06/12 when all my fish sadly died :'(
And those angels aren't 100% reef safe but overall mine were all good, of course if you decide to get one just keep an eye on it.
Funny thing is I recently got an eibli for my 210 and the first couple weeks he kept picking on my blue haddoni, literally eating it I think but then he stopped because he must have gotten used to all the food I feed.
I would suggest NOT getting any damsels those were nooby mistakes, but that rabbitfish was the best fish I had, he lived from like 2007/8 to last year 06/12 when all my fish sadly died :'(
And those angels aren't 100% reef safe but overall mine were all good, of course if you decide to get one just keep an eye on it.
Funny thing is I recently got an eibli for my 210 and the first couple weeks he kept picking on my blue haddoni, literally eating it I think but then he stopped because he must have gotten used to all the food I feed.
Well like I said, a safe option is also any rabbitfish/foxface but that's personal preference. And the tangs, I wouldn't be worried if you get one, just one really nice one, like a purple tang or something.
- Location
- Westhampton, NY
You didn't have any issues with trigger and sps?
I have 4 different species of reef safe triggers in my tank and never had any issues with them and coral. I have a bluethroat, niger trigger, black durgeon or hawaiian trigger and a pinktail trigger. All good and healthy with the rest of my reef, only issue would be if you have ornamental shrimp but then again, I have hermit and snails and they don't seem to pick them at all. If anything I've seen my wrasses go after my clean up crew rather than the triggers.
- Location
- Franklin Square, NY
if you really want to keep an Angel probably any from the Genicanthus family would be the safest..most grow from 7-10". Many of the larger Angels are safe with SPS, but may eat softies and LPS and I don't recommmend them anyway in a tank your size. The smaller dwarf species are hit or miss...
Oh I forgot about those types of angels. That would be anything like swallowtails, lamarck, wattanabe, bellus and zebras, etc. correct? Those would indeed be the safest.
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na the bluethroat is completely safe in my opinion. for whatever reason tho mine changed from a male to female so i lost those nice colors in the fins, plus my friend rob is getting my trigger so i need to replace it with something cool
- Location
- Westchester, N.Y
How about blackcap or hawk fish, purple fire fish. I have a potter angel in my 90 gal all SPS tank. Good fish fathead.....
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Supposedly potters aren't the best at eating, that's what I've heard though. From my experience, I had one and it ate very well and never picked on anything. Some type of hawkfish is also a nice suggestion, I was just looking at one called a swallowtail hawkfish, has a really nice red color. And I'm not sure if this is what Pat is referring to, but fathead or sunburst anthias also have an awesome color.
P.S.: Sorry if I'm so on top of this thread but I'm bored at work lol
P.S.: Sorry if I'm so on top of this thread but I'm bored at work lol
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- Location
- Westchester, N.Y
No, has no interest in SPS. He ate every type of fish food. Just make sure he's eating before you buy . Other than that my favorite fish. Had him over 2 yrs.
- Location
- Westchester, N.Y
I also have scarlet hawk which is red.. Is that same as swallow ..... reef4life. I saw alot of NICE Potters at Maximum reef for $35.
Thanks Pat, I'm going to take a trip there tomorrow I think. Maybe I'll pick one up, we'll see.
- Location
- Carmel, NY
Everywhere online it says that angels should be kept with caution in a reef aquarium. However i was told that angels will knipp at corals if they think that there is food/ leftovers on them. Not sure as to how true that is.
They were talking about Maximum Reefs in Yonkers NY
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