"Last fish" ideas?

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Yellow assessor maybe?

Wow Tony. I've never seen this little guy before. It's now on MY list (along with your tailspot Justin).

[TheMikey]

I'd second the clownfish. I love mine, very active and colourful. However, if you're looking for colour and something more unique, maybe a flasher wrasse? I've seen them as showfish on nano-reef sometimes.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

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.

A yellow assessor is an awesome fish, very colourful (especially if you get the smaller australian variant) and about as friendly as it gets.
Just make sure you have an overhang with some good flow under it because that is where this fish will stay.

I would also put a blue assessor on here, even though it doesn't match your colour schematic but man o man, what an unbelievably eye catching fish...
Would really be a showpiece in the tank described.

Both varieties of assessors (which I believe are considered basslets) are as unaggressive as you could hope for.

I suppose that also, if you're tank is nicely established or you have a 'fuge of one variety or another(or want to spend the money on bottled pods) a red psychedelic mandarin would fit your hopes for colour and passiveness well.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by TheMikey

I'd second the clownfish. I love mine, very active and colourful. However, if you're looking for colour and something more unique, maybe a flasher wrasse? I've seen them as showfish on nano-reef sometimes.

I was looking at flasher wrasse the other day actually. It is an option.

Originally Posted by gobytron

A yellow assessor is an awesome fish, very colourful (especially if you get the smaller australian variant) and about as friendly as it gets.
Just make sure you have an overhang with some good flow under it because that is where this fish will stay.

I would also put a blue assessor on here, even though it doesn't match your colour schematic but man o man, what an unbelievably eye catching fish...
Would really be a showpiece in the tank described.

Both varieties of assessors (which I believe are considered basslets) are as unaggressive as you could hope for.

I suppose that also, if you're tank is nicely established or you have a 'fuge of one variety or another(or want to spend the money on bottled pods) a red psychedelic mandarin would fit your hopes for colour and passiveness well.

Color isn't really THAT big a deal...blue would be fine. I know J&L have the Yellow Assessors right now. Very nice fish!

I don't really have much of a fuge or a Mandarin would be a great fish too. Although I am still really looking for something more active in the water column. It's hard to find anything for a smaller tank like this that is an active swimmer. Obviously if they are active swimmers in this size tank, they have to stay pretty small.

[xtreme]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

I really want a flame hawk but I think it may be better to get something that actually swims around a bit more.

My flame hawk moves about quite a bit. He will disappear into the rockwork, then reappear at the other end of the tank. He is always swimming around and he always seems to be watching me. Very cool fish with a great personality.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by xtreme

My flame hawk moves about quite a bit. He will disappear into the rockwork, then reappear at the other end of the tank. He is always swimming around and he always seems to be watching me. Very cool fish with a great personality.

Does he bother other passive fish at all?

[gobytron]

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

[Delphinus]

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.

[lastlight]

Keep this banter up guys. I'm essentially pretend-populating my tank off this thread lol.

[xtreme]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

Does he bother other passive fish at all?

I've never seen him bother any of my other fish. He is one of the smaller fish in the tank though so its a different environment than what your tank would be.