A Red Fish

[Vinnie71975]

Ok im looking for a Red Fish but there are a few catches.....

1) It has to be reef Safe
2) it has to be Invert safe(i want Shrimp)
3) It has to be able to get along with a Yellow tailed Blue Damsel, A Pygmy Angel fish and a True Perc
4) Not get too big for a 55g tank!
Any Ideas?

 

[demonsp]

Cool for unique fish and viberant colors.GL.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/CatDisplay.cfm?sku=0089698000000&siteid=20

 

[cd77]

Red velvet wrasse?
Red Cardinalfish?

 

[Avi]

A Fire Clownfish...also sometimes called a Red Saddleback Clownfish. I have one and it sounds like what you're looking for.

 

[IceWish]

take back the Pygmy and get a flame angel

 

[pimpinitup6969]

i would agree with the above post if it wasnt a reef aquarium i have seen flame angels decimate complete corals

Matt

 

[sgarron]

A Flame Hawk is about as red as you can get. Mine lived peacefully with my 3 cleaner shrimp and 5 peppermint shrimp for about a year. Than in a two month time span he ate all 8 of them... Oh well.

 

[AquariaOCD]

x2 on the fire clown

 

[sgarron]

Re: A Red Fish

I don't think the Perc would like a fire clown too much. Fire clowns are one of the more aggressive clown fish.

 

[rbtwo4]

How about a red firefish???

 

[95accord]

flame angel?

 

[sgarron]

Flame angels are hit or miss with corals, mine has been a model citizen for 6 months but that can change over night. They are also more of an orange color, not really red.

 

[vito is hooked]

Carpenter Wrasse

 

[daven]

x3 on the Fire Clown

 

[Sk8r]

filamented fairy wrasse. Stays small, interesting finnage, red color.

Another would be the red firefish. Only 1 per 55g.

 

[hangseanshi]

Flame Fairy Wrasse!!!

 

[zotzer]

Flame Cardinal is a safe, easy-going choice.
Tracy

 

[iwishtofish]

Flame Angels are a definite risk in a reef - mine was fine for a good while but now picks at corals.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Re: A Red Fish

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11627819#post11627819 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Vinnie71975
Ok im looking for a Red Fish but there are a few catches.....

1) It has to be reef Safe
2) it has to be Invert safe(i want Shrimp)
3) It has to be able to get along with a Yellow tailed Blue Damsel, A Pygmy Angel fish and a True Perc
4) Not get too big for a 55g tank!
Any Ideas?

I would definitely go with a Wrasse.
Check out Flasher and Fairy Wrasses.

 

[DrBegalke]

Fire clowns are a nice red, but probably will out grow that 55 since it is fairly well-stocked now.

Might considet a scarlet wrase (Pseudocheilinus evanidus) or one of a few pseudochromis.

I have a Mccullochi pseudochromis (Cypho purpurescens) which is a great color, somewhat shy though.

There are also the red head pseudochromis and the red spot:

http://www.marinecenter.com/results...earch.x=0&executesearch.y=0&executesearch=Go!