| Update........
Great thread! You guys are missing a lot of fish that need to be in here.
These are on difficulty of providing diet, don't ship well/hard to keep alive, and grow much larger than you would assume:
Nearly all Filefish
Groupers
Snappers
Jacks
Many hogfish grow large
These grow large or are hard to keep:
Lunare wrasse 10 inches
Top hat wrasse (pseudojuloides sp) jumpers
Bicolor parrot fish (so cute when they're little, grow to 30 inches)
Leopard wrasses (macropharyngodon sp) diet
Broomtail wrasse 18 inches
Dragon wrasse 12 inches
Formosa wrasse 24 inches
Red coris wrasse 12 inches
Clown wrasse (coris aygula) 24 inches
Maori wrasse 20 inches
Powder brown tang
Clown tang
Powder blue tang
Blackcapps (Gramma melacara)
Seahorses (not for beginners)
Pipefish
Rarer types of anthias
Clingfish
Catalina goby
Frogfish/anglers
Batfish (grow large and ugly)
Boxfish
Sweetlips
Lionfish (need more of a species tank, volitans grow 12+")
Soldierfish
Tilefish (they like ending up on your tile)
Pineapple fish (if you can actually afford one)
Highhat/jacknife 9 inches
Since you guys were wandering into inverts:
Carpet anemones esp blue or red ones
Hells fire anemone
Pizza anemone
anemone shrimp
harlequin shrimp
abalone
porcelain crab (filter feeder)
horshoe crab
decorator crab
sea apple/ any filter feeding sea cucumber
christmas tree worm
lobsters
flame scallops
nudibranchs (leave them in the ocean they have very specialized diets, sea hares are a different story)
Red serpent star
sand sifting star (bad for sand bed, not beneficial)
Mantis shrimp
Cowries/large conchs/tulip snails
Pencil urchin
Cuttlefish |