what fish would you recommend ?

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Kroeger

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Hey everyone I've got a 65 gallon saltwater aquarium with two clowns two fire fish and a yellow tang, also I am slowly adding corals and anemones. I'm not sure what other fish I could add because I am looking for a fish that will swim freely and all over the tank and not hide in the rocks as much as a previous fish i had which was an orchid dotty back. do you have any ideas?

looking for non-aggressive fish thank you
 
seafansar

seafansar

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I'd do a trio of anthais. Some nice ones are disbar (used to have a single one who was pretty cool), bartletts, carberryi (I used to have a school of 5 in my old 150 and loved them), ignitus, and lyretail (I have a school of 4 now and one is currently turning into a male). Fathead sunburst anthias are beautiful too, but they are very shy at first. I have 3 of those also. I bought the 4 lyretails, because I didn't think the sunburst were ever going to come out of hiding. Of course right after I added the new anthias, the sunburst have been swimming out in the open every since! Oh well, they're all beautiful!
 
seafansar

seafansar

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My lyretail and sunburst pretty much ignore eachother. The lyretails school together and the sunburst each have a section of the tank to themselves (they don't really school). I did add the disbar to my school of carberryi before I sold them and he fit in just fine. Acted like part of the school. So from my limited experience, I would think it would be fine.
 
reefer gladness

reefer gladness

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I don't think a 65g is large enough for anthias. Do some research on liveaquaria.com and elsewhere and you'll find the minimumrecommended tank size is 125g. Then consider the bio-load being added to your tank which already has 5 fish and your really pushing the limits by adding 3 medium sized fish.
 
Haaileybop

Haaileybop

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Midus blenny is one of my favorite fish and should get along fine with your others :)

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lilj104

lilj104

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Kroeger said:
i was told that fish would grow too big for my aquarium with at yellow tang already in there?



don't they get aggressive as they mature?
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Chromis no, other damsels yes.

You can go for a six-line wrasse, clown goby, blenny, mandarin goby
 
Choff

Choff

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Love my mystery wrasse I just added. He cruises nonstop through all the Tony crevices in my rocks. Stunning yellow eyes.

Also a big fan of blennies, but mine,blackfin fang, is on the shy side.

I would never recommend chromis. I hate mine and want them out. I had 4 they harassed 1 to death and the big one owns the middle of the tank and was chasing everyone away.... Until I added a trio of anthias that are much bigger. Seems to have cooled his jets a bit on the other fish, but still terrorizes the other chromis. They don't school. I know all fish are different, but I have since read many similar stories with chromis.



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tommyboynj

tommyboynj

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With what you have in there already you don't have much room left. I would skip the Anthias unless you get one. I have one Lyretail in my tank and he's doing great. You have to feed regularly with these guys though. I would look at a small Blenny or a wrasse. 5 Chromis in a 65 will quickly lead to 2 or 3 Chromis.
 
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