Fish Selection Help

[msujohn]

I have a 90 gallon mixed reef tank with the following fish:

- 2 Picasso Clown's
- 1 Orchid Dottyback
- 1 Long nose Hawk
- 1 Kole Tang
- 1 Midas Blenny

Corals are all LPS at the moment but will move into some select SPS/Zoa's.

I'm looking for the following colors to add into my tank and hoping to get some suggestions. - Red, Blue, Pink, and Orange. I'd like to add 3 or 4 more fish and really want to focus on the above colors.
My goal is to get active swimmers (really like how active my Midas blenny is)

Thoughts?

 

[ichthyogeek]

A fairy or flasher wrasse maybe? Those are all sorts of colors. It should cover most if not all of those colors. You might be able to get a harem if you manage it right...

 

[Dmorty217]

+1 to the wrasse

 

[msujohn]

I was hoping to get one fish that is predominatly red, one fish predominatly blue, etc. The wrasse's seem to be a good mixture of al these colors. For instance for a red fish, I was looking at either a Dwarf Flame Angel (not sure if reef safe or not) or a Red Hawk (not sure how active of a swimmer this fish would be).

 

[Dmorty217]

Flame angels are hit and miss like all dwarf angels as far as reef safe goes. That's a relative term anyway, if some picking isn't ok I would skip any dwarf angel. Hawk fish are perchers, not much of swimmers since the lack a swim bladder and sink naturally

 

[msujohn]

Flame angels are hit and miss like all dwarf angels as far as reef safe goes. That's a relative term anyway, if some picking isn't ok I would skip any dwarf angel. Hawk fish are perchers, not much of swimmers since the lack a swim bladder and sink naturally

Thanks for the response. That is what I am concerned about. I really like how active my midas blenny is in the tank and want a couple of others like that.

Are any wrasse's active?

 

[lespaul339]

Flasher wrasses are very active.

 

[msujohn]

If I only get 1 male flasher, will his colors diminish (without the females)?

 

[ichthyogeek]

As long as you provide foods rich in carotene and such, it shouldn't fade.

Blue-Smith's fanged blenny, Meiacanthus atrodorsalis... it's blue-ish
Red-pick a flasher wrasse, any flasher wrasse.
Pink/orange- male lyretail anthias?

 

[nuxx]

I'd go with a pair of smaller fairy wrasses.

Also maybe a Whitetail or Chevron over the Kole? The prices have come down a lot of those two fish...