Advice please: fish selection!

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yes, the butterflyfish is also not as hardy and is risky for newbie.

Pajama cardinals are also very boring - stay still in one place IME. Otherwise like your list.

[mandyplo]

Yee-haw to the yellow eyed kole tang and wrasses.

I love my yellow eyed kole tang, we had a hair algae breakout in our tank and he made quick work of it. I am also a FREAK about wrasses, I love them. Go nuts.

Heres some tips on what NOT to get: Damsels. Damsels. DAMSELS!!!!

That is all.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by mandyplo

Heres some tips on what NOT to get: Damsels. Damsels. DAMSELS!!!!

That is all.

Actually, while I agree that most damsels turn into little terrors, my experience has been that yellow-tail blues and fusilier damsels are among the best of the bunch. Fusilier damsels also school all the time, which is nice to see in a tank.

[burgerchow]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Actually, while I agree that most damsels turn into little terrors, my experience has been that yellow-tail blues and fusilier damsels are among the best of the bunch. Fusilier damsels also school all the time, which is nice to see in a tank.

Yo, I just bought 3 Fiji blues to put into my reef. A lot of people forget that damsels are the true reef fish. Nothing light the sight of a bunch of damsels around a reef head , each protecting their own 12" of real estate. Lol

[gridley]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Actually, while I agree that most damsels turn into little terrors, my experience has been that yellow-tail blues and fusilier damsels are among the best of the bunch. Fusilier damsels also school all the time, which is nice to see in a tank.

SO, how agressive have your yellowtail blues been?

[mandyplo]

If you want schooling fish with no worries of it terrorizing anyone or anything in your tank I would go with some Anthias. They school and I have a bunch who are beautiful, peaceful and amazing to watch. They really add that orange pink and purple "pop" to the tank!

I've had the yellowtail blue damsels and they drove one of my blue chromis' to death, nasty little buggers. I traded them back to the LFS immediately, they were the most aggressive fish I've had. Them and the Clarkii clowns I had.... they killed off all of my shrimp and a blue chromis aswell

[wmcinnes]

I learned the hard way with butterfly fish. Unless you are going to be around to feed twice a day, I would steer away. I fed a good portion of food once a day, every day and my copperband still did not make it.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by gridley

SO, how agressive have your yellowtail blues been?

Very peaceful. Maybe chase one another once in a while, but not the other fish.