Help me pick some fish for a 33 cube!

[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.

FWIW, Anthias, specifically Nemanthias carberryi and p.squamipinnis are like vermin in the ocean here. They are so common and so easy to catch that most hobbyists living near the coast have a few in their tanks. Just to make you jealous! :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

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

Where have you seen that gorgonian? I haven't seen one offered anywhere in years! Only gorgs I ever see any more are the corky, ribbon, and yellow and red all from the carib. Besides of course the blueberry ones but I don't count those because I know they will definitely not live.

 

[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.

FWIW, Anthias, specifically Nemanthias carberryi and p.squamipinnis are like vermin in the ocean here. They are so common and so easy to catch that most hobbyists living near the coast have a few in their tanks. Just to make you jealous! :wink:

It's hard to make me jealous. I get to help take care of one of the largest coral reef tanks in the world. It has around 90 anthias in it if I remember right. A lot of P. squamipinnis, along with some pleurotaenia and tricolor. :twisted:

 

[bleedingthought]

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!

Sounds like a cool setup. Make sure you post pictures. What gorgonians did you have in mind? Photo or non? Where do you have in mind to order them from?

 

[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!

Sounds like a cool setup. Make sure you post pictures. What gorgonians did you have in mind? Photo or non? Where do you have in mind to order them from?

Definitely photosynthetic. Tubastraea is found in the Caribbean; at some point I may try a small frag of that but otherwise it'll be all zooxanthellate animals.

 

[Anonymous]

Okay, okay, so I'm doing the chalk bass. Man I'm predictable. I've decided to go full out Caribbean...

There are a bunch of neat Caribbean fish that don't get enough attention from us West Coasters.

There are a bunch of neat ones that don't get enough attention from anyone, period. One of these days I swear I'm going to do a caribbean tank with just a single shy or indigo hamlet for a fish.

 

[fcmatt]

two clownfish for a pair.

 

[Anonymous]

Okay, okay, so I'm doing the chalk bass. Man I'm predictable. I've decided to go full out Caribbean...

There are a bunch of neat Caribbean fish that don't get enough attention from us West Coasters.

There are a bunch of neat ones that don't get enough attention from anyone, period. One of these days I swear I'm going to do a caribbean tank with just a single shy or indigo hamlet for a fish.

Beating you to it! I'm pretty set on getting a Hypoplectrus guttavarius.

 

[Anonymous]

With maybe a Prognathodes aculeatus? :? :? :? Might be too much.

 

[Anonymous]

KISS

 

[bleedingthought]

:lol:

 

[Anonymous]

With maybe a Prognathodes aculeatus? :? :? :? Might be too much.

Yeah... I'd tend to think a hamlet would be plenty of fish for a 33 cube. They do reach a pretty decent size (5-6" if I recall correctly). And of course they can't be trusted with smaller fish, which is a limiting factor as well.

 

[Anonymous]

KISS

That damn picture of me. :lol:

Hey, didn't you tell me a long time ago to add a third fish to a 12 gallon?

 

[Anonymous]

With maybe a Prognathodes aculeatus? :? :? :? Might be too much.

Yeah... I'd tend to think a hamlet would be plenty of fish for a 33 cube. They do reach a pretty decent size (5-6" if I recall correctly). And of course they can't be trusted with smaller fish, which is a limiting factor as well.

Yeah, I just wonder how small it will come. In "Reef Fishes" it says they are fairly tolerant of unrelated species. And my system will have a volume of around 45 gallons when done (big sump). If I can find two small ones I may just try it and move one to a larger tank eventually.

If I could get my hands on a Bank Butterfly that wouldn't eat gorgonian polyps I'd happily add it as a lone specimen. 8O