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11-17-2009, 07:53 PM
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With the size of your tank and your wish to have a mid water fish I would consider a blue chromis. Not the aggressive one but the one with a yellow tail. They are active enough but peaceful, inexpensive and IMO a bright blue fish really looks impressive in a small tank. Just an option.
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11-17-2009, 08:16 PM
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I find chromis to be a lot like damsels, eventually always aggressive.
Also, while the orchid dottyback IS supposed to be one of the less aggressive dottybacks, it will certainly get a major hate on for your firesfish and any other conspecifics... IMO I wouldn't chance any dottyback, wrasse or chromis/damsels in a smaller system I wanted to remain peaceful... If the tank has a one or more mature sps in it, a couple of clown gobies always add a little colour and a lot of hilarity. They do nip sps, but it actually seems to give larger pieces some incentive to pick up the pace ...smaller frags will suffer though. Heres a half decent picture of my assessor... Last edited by gobytron; 11-17-2009 at 09:27 PM. Reason: Gratuitous Fish Picture Addition
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11-18-2009, 12:02 AM
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Yeah thats a nice fish!
Im starting to think I might just go with a few more firefish and leave it at that instead of messing with the peacefulness. They are not all that active but they do swim around and with a few more maybe it would feel more active. Or otherwise the Flame hawk is also at the top of the list right now 
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11-18-2009, 01:50 AM
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Hmm... I thought the Purple Firefish was one of those 'single or pairs' sort of fish. If you could keep a group of them, that would be awesome... they are beautiful fish (I love mine) and would be gorgeous as a group.
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11-18-2009, 02:16 AM
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Not sure but my friend has 2 purples and 2 oranges together in a 60G no problem and I have seen large groups in bigger tanks before.
I have no idea though. Mine are both about 2"-2.5" and get along great. But then again its only 2 of them. In any case I doubt I will end up with more. I have a feeling its either a flame hawk or a flame angel (but I worry about aggression with this one). Anyone have any experiences to share about their Cherub Angels? My friends is great and very peaceful...is this normal? Would be a great angel since its max size is 3". Not much different from the Flame at 4" I guess. Last edited by GreenSpottedPuffer; 11-18-2009 at 03:00 AM.
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11-18-2009, 04:37 PM
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I'm 90% sure that as long as they are added simultaneously and aren't too close in size you won't see much aggression beyond establishing a pecking order.
You might be able to get away with reaquascaping your tank and adding a couple new firefish then though... Or buy try adding some that are much larger than the ones you have in there already as this seems to make established fish less likely to get their hate on for the new guy... I can only speak from my specific experience with paired/shoals of fish and what I've read about firefish.
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