Fish options

[nuttyd]

I have a 55 gallon with drilled overflow and sump with about 15 gallons of water. No skimmer, large fuge area, 150-200 lbs of live rock. Want to add another fish that is interesting and doesn't hide much. Would like unique, not common.
Have the following already:
- Corals
large Bubble
large duncan
two birdsnest
some frogspawn
hammer
some trumpets
green star polyps
devils hand
cabbage leather
xenia
pipe corals
- Fish / inverts
dozen astrea snails
Blood shrimp
two peppermint
pistol shrimp
blue starfish
flametail goby
hasslet goby
marbled blenny
yellow dottyback
sapphire damsel
longspine cardinal
sailfin tang (baby. half dollar including fins. Will rehome when larger to friends tank thats large)

Any suggestions?

 

[CoralNerd]

I like wrasse a lot for a fish that stays out, have you thought about a wrasse?

 

[nuttyd]

Would consider. They are neat. Any unique reef safe ones?

 

[Dmorty217]

Would consider. They are neat. Any unique reef safe ones?

There are a ton to choose from

 

[FortyFour]

Some wrasses eat shrimp. They can be real wrasseholes like that.

 

[Taahirs]

There are alot of reefsafe wrasses.

Fairy and flasher wrasses are cool

 

[900801]

What about clownfish?

 

[nuttyd]

Was eyeing a leopard wrasse at the lfs. not sure yet. Maybe a longnose hawkfish,

Had to get rid of a clown because was harassing a coral and not going to be getting anemone to fix that.

 

[Dmorty217]

Was eyeing a leopard wrasse at the lfs. not sure yet. Maybe a longnose hawkfish,

Had to get rid of a clown because was harassing a coral and not going to be getting anemone to fix that.

If your tank is mature (1yr or close to it) the leopard wrasse could work, or if you get one that's readily accepting prepared foods

 

[nuttyd]

Tank has been up an running for about 4 years. any drawbacks of the leopard?

 

[Dmorty217]

You should be fine with the leopard then

 

[jason2459]

Leopard wrasse would do good with the established tank but don't plan on any other pod preditors like a mandarin/dragonet. They will eat prepared foods but still devour various pods and will out compete a mandarin easily.

 

[jason2459]

also be sure to read through this thread

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2369454


Leopard wrasses can be a challenge but worth it.

 

[nuttyd]

Think thats what im going to go with. Have to check my fuge for pods to make sure they are there and seed if needed. Only been running it for a month.

 

[jason2459]

Having the pods will be good and they will snack on them all day but they will take to frozen, prepared, pellets, etc. I'd start off with hikari krill and pe and hikari mysis. Be prepared to have one or two die before you get a healthy one. Hate to say that but that's reality. Prazipro is good as many will have worms. Be prepared to not see them for many days to weeks as their timing is off and will be trying to sleep under the sand during the day until they get acclimated to your time zone. Some may adjust with in a day and some much longer.