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11-17-2009, 06:09 AM
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Red or yellow, huh. Hmmm.
Yellow assessor maybe? Or how about a candy basslet? I hear nice things about these fish (personality and suitability) and they're pretty (and yellow and yellow/red respectively). There are other fish in this category in other colours (black cap basslet, blue assessors, ... chaulk bass, gramma's .. etc.) Thinking a Centropyge would eventually get too big. Although if you got a small enough one you could probably get 6-12 months before you had to consider rehoming him.
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11-17-2009, 06:12 AM
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PS. Another obvious choice for red in a tank that size would be a flame hawk. I debated on mentioning it though because you said you'd prefer an open water swimmer and hawks are, well, .. not.
 But you can't beat them for a splash of a red and a hilarious personality.
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11-17-2009, 06:49 AM
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Thanks for the suggestions. Some good ideas.
I really want a flame hawk but I think it may be better to get something that actually swims around a bit more. Right now the fish I have are beautiful but not the most active. The firefish to swim around but its kind of more slow hovering
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11-17-2009, 06:19 PM
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11-17-2009, 06:42 PM
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11-17-2009, 06:48 PM
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Mine never bothered anyone. The ONLY incident I ever noticed with my flame hawk was with my sixline. The sixline was a total jerk to him the first couple of days and the flame had torn fins and whatnot. Somewhere around day 3, the flame hawk said "Enough of this", beat the living SNOT out of the sixline (bruises and everything), from that day on there was peace between the two. So, definitely a fish who can hold his own if need be, but would prefer peace first. Definitely the coolest little fish. Man I really miss mine.
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11-17-2009, 06:58 PM
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11-17-2009, 06:46 PM
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You wouldn't get a super active fish with the assessor though IMO, they seem to really like a spot with overhead cover and turbulent flow(like right under a tunze or sure flow ph). Mine will venture out pretty regularly but nowhere near as much as my grammas...
Have you thought about them at all if you really want movement and a docile nature above all else? You could easily get a very small and a med. size gramma loreto and let them do their thing...I only say 2 because 2 of them will be significantly more active in the water column than 1. JL often gets nice shipments of them in and no joke after a year and a half of them my harem of 4 still crack me up here and there. With 2 of them sized as stated you'd more than likely wind up with a male/female pair and would encounter 0 aggression unless they're spawning but with you're docile selection of tankmates I don't think you would have any issue even then. They WILL fight with their reflection though, but fighting for this fish is just a who can open their mouth bigger competition.  Try that with your reflection sometime...lol
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11-17-2009, 06:51 AM
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But I don't really want to get a fish that I will have to rehome.
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