Disease resistant fish

[adtravels]

Anyone have any suggestions for relatively disease resistant, hardy but interesting fish for my 50 gallon reef.

thanks
I am tempted by a hawkfish.

 

[sirbooks]

I highly recommend a hawkfish. Size-wise you'll be fine with any Amblycirrhitus or Cirrhitichthys species, as well as the lyretail, flame, and longnose hawkfish. Which fish you get depends on the other livestock in the tank, and whether this will be your last fish or not. If you plan to buy another fish, unless it's a meaner one I'd get it before the hawk.

 

[adtravels]

I have shrimp two cleaners two harlequins
I have had a scarlet hawk before and it lived with the shrimp no dramas.

What about the pixy or spotted

 

[jmaneyapanda]

hawks are predators, and voracious ones at that- use caution.

 

[sirbooks]

Yeah, you do have to be careful with the shrimp. Personally I wouldn't trust a pixy hawk with shrimp, and the spotted hawkfish gets large enough that it might take a shot at them too. Spotted hawkfish aren't too aggressive when it comes to fish though, so they're still a good option. Pixy hawkfish are jerks to small critters and basically whatever comes into a tank after them.

 

[cwegescheide]

My Coral Beauty seems to be resistant to Ich. My two tangs had ich REALLY BAD and the CB was fine. They only thing is the CB seems to be a little bit of a terror towards the other fish. Never a prob towards the coral.

 

[Sk8r]

Blennies and gobies as a whole are pretty ich-proof. Ditto dragonets. They can get it, but it's rare, generally combinination of poor water quality with ich present. If you run a stable tank, they're generally resistent to everything.

 

[karid]

Yup - gobies, blennies, dragonettes.

There are a lot of interesting fish in those groups. The dragonettes are all cool, shrimp gobies, sand sifting gobies, cute little clown gobies, firefish (if you call a dartfish a goby), crazy-looking lawnmower blennies, cute bicolor blennies, etc...