Help me pick some fish for a 33 cube!

[Anonymous]

I like unusual and colorful. I was thinking I want a small shoal of something, I just don't know what.

Slender anthias, cardinals, dartfish, chalk basslets, and assessors are all possibilites. Throw out some ideas!

 

[Anonymous]

Anthias would be cool.

http://www.saltcorner.com/sections/zoo/anthias.htm

 

[bleedingthought]

No wrasses?

 

[Anonymous]

A school of finger mullet would be cool.

You'd need to cover the tank though.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I really like threadfin cardinal's too.

Louey

 

[Joew]

Matt,
I feel your pain. I haven't even started my cube yet. No idea what i want in it. Was thinking something diffrent, a gorgorian tank. No idea...

Jdbya
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[Anonymous]

Matt,
I feel your pain. I haven't even started my cube yet. No idea what i want in it. Was thinking something diffrent, a gorgorian tank. No idea...

Jdbya

How funny. I was planing on doing a nice big colony of Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata up at the top.

If I do, I might go full Caribbean and do some chalk bass, royal gramma, and a Caribbean Halichoeres sp.

 

[Anonymous]

Chalk bass are really cool. Louey mentioned threadfins, and I'm partial to them myself. Orange lined cardinals make a nice little group, too.

Vanderbilt chromis won't really shoal at all, but make for a really nice option too.

Don't know that I'd really consider any anthias a particularly good choice for a 33 gallon. Maybe fairy wrasses?

 

[Anonymous]

helfrichi

blackcap basslet

bluegreen chromis

 

[Anonymous]

I've always wanted a small shoal of Chalk Bass...
So it's decided then, you'll add a small shoal of Chalk Bass.


Post pics of them once their installed in their new home buddy.

The only other thing I'll allow you to attempt is a trio of C. argi or C. acanthops.


We'll have to hook up during one of my monthly trips down there...


Jim

 

[Anonymous]

Add a small school of chalk bass, you will.

Louey

 

[Joew]

Oh yes....Chalk Basslets.....I will do them.....I PROMISE>>>>!!!
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[Anonymous]

Hoplolatilus marcosi or I always thought a dim Photoblepharon palpebratus tank would be very cool.

 

[Anonymous]

Shut up Andy, he's adding Chalk Bass.

 

[Anonymous]

They have been done to death.

 

[Anonymous]

I love these little fish - they look like old timey fishing lures

 

[Anonymous]

They have been done to death.

I don't recall giving him permission to add a Photo palp....

Chromis have been done to death too, but out of all the fish I've kept, including most of the "unusual" things you can shake a stick at, few things have had a more pleasing effect in a large tank then a school of Green chromis...
Commonness has nothing to do with a fish's desirability...few things add a splash of color like a Yellow Tang...but oooohhh, excuse me...more than 3 a year come in the country, and it doesn't cost $500....

Neener neener....

Hey, that fish does look like an old timey fishing lure!! I shall call him Rapala, and Rapala shall be his name....

Matt, don't be a schmuck.....get Chalk Bass or three...
As stated above, you may also try your hand at breeding dwarf angels.

 

[Anonymous]

Hoplolatilus marcosi

Way too small of a tank.

or I always thought a dim Photoblepharon palpebratus tank would be very cool.

It is cool. The aquarium I volunteer at has one with 6 fish. They eat just about anything, and are very hardy. Only problem is I want corals.

 

[Anonymous]

Chalk bass are really cool. Louey mentioned threadfins, and I'm partial to them myself. Orange lined cardinals make a nice little group, too.

Okay, okay, so I'm doing the chalk bass. Man I'm predictable. I've decided to go full out Caribbean. This means my coral selection will be limited to mostly gorgonians, ricordea, and certain stony corals like Favia and Scolymia (I'll just have to settle for the Pacific counterpart). Then, up at the top, I'll have a nice fat Condylactis anemone. Mostly nice gorgonians though. What the hell, it's different. I'd really like to try an anemone shrimp but I'm sure it'll just get eaten.

I'm thinking 3 chalk bass, 2 royal grammas, 2 neon gobies, and (one of the following) jawfish/swissguard basslet/small Halichoeres wrasse, either garnoti or cyanocephalus. There are a bunch of neat Caribbean fish that don't get enough attention from us West Coasters. Jim will hate me for it but no Centropyges. I've been there done that. I was way too tempted to try a few garden eels but I've decided to pass on that too.

Any other neat stuff you guys can think of? The other thing that ran through my head was a Diadema urchin and one of those tiny red head Elacatinus gobies that live underneath them. Cute fishies!

 

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt chromis won't really shoal at all, but make for a really nice option too.

Don't know that I'd really consider any anthias a particularly good choice for a 33 gallon. Maybe fairy wrasses?

I was thinking Luzonichthys spp. anthias. Always wanted to try a group.