Fish Suggestions for a larger tank?

[Vince272992]

ok cool and ya if u are going to do a tang i would defiantly do a yellow tang or tomini cause there the hardiest and cheapest and add a lot of color and personality to the tank while staying smaller then other tangs such as powder blue/brown and a lot of other ones i would defiantly do one of those two

 

[rssjsb]

Ya, it's a 60x24x30 tank (sold to me as 187 gallons). I actually had 2 bannerfish in here for quite a while and they were absolutely beautiful (stupid lunar wrasse butchered them). I know I am definitely adding a pair of them, after all, they aren't a clown tang, or a queen angel, or something else of that sheer size.

As for the clownfish, the pair has been in the tank 5 years, and I added the cinnamon about 6 months ago. The cinnamon is definitely the boss, but the pair (who still regularly lay eggs) hold their own. The cinnamon claimed one side of the tank as her own, and the ocellaris pair claimed the other.

No doubt the bannerfish are beautiful. I just think they get too big for your tank. In any event, if you do add them, I would not add any other big fish (tangs, etc.) until you've gotten some feel for how much space these guys will take up when they're grown.

I hope the clowns maintain the detente they've achieved in your current tank when you move them and disrupt their territories. I'd keep an eye on that situation.

Finally, I would skip the cleaner wrasse. I missed that before on your list.

I like my tank. It is a challenge to keep clean, particularly around the sand bed, but I love the space - it allows for some interesting aquascaping.

Good luck.

 

[fishfreak2009]

No doubt the bannerfish are beautiful. I just think they get too big for your tank. In any event, if you do add them, I would not add any other big fish (tangs, etc.) until you've gotten some feel for how much space these guys will take up when they're grown.
I had a pair of adults before and they were just fine in my opinion. Between a crazy lunare wrasse and an a relative who thought they could clean the tank with bleach I lost them (and all their tankmates besides the wrasse), but never did I feel the tank was too small for them. They lived with a yellow tang, a purple tang, a copperband butterfly, and a pearlscale butterfly and all of them thrived together.

I hope the clowns maintain the detente they've achieved in your current tank when you move them and disrupt their territories. I'd keep an eye on that situation.
Why would I move them? They are in the display and have been for quite a while...?

Finally, I would skip the cleaner wrasse. I missed that before on your list.
I had excellent luck with a cleaner wrasse from Quality Marine, until the safety cover got knocked of the koralia... When I get another cleaner, I will make sure it has been in the store for a while, is greedily eating, came from Quality Marine, and will go through a 6 week quarantine.

I like my tank. It is a challenge to keep clean, particularly around the sand bed, but I love the space - it allows for some interesting aquascaping.
Ya, the dimensions are a challenge when it comes to cleaning, but the aquascaping potential is just awesome.
Good luck.

See the red above. Also, I am not a newbie at this, I have been keeping saltwater fish for almost 8 years. I was just going for some unique suggestions, and seeing if people could think of a species I might have forgotten about. Sorry if it sounds like I'm flaming you, I'm really not trying to, and I appreciate that you have the best interests of the fish at heart.

 

[rssjsb]

See the red above. Also, I am not a newbie at this, I have been keeping saltwater fish for almost 8 years. I was just going for some unique suggestions, and seeing if people could think of a species I might have forgotten about. Sorry if it sounds like I'm flaming you, I'm really not trying to, and I appreciate that you have the best interests of the fish at heart.

No worries. Reading back through my posts I realized that they were more negative than I intended. I didn't mean to scold. I like the fish on your list. I've just been surprised at how, well, moderate my 185 feels now that it's set up and running even though it's over twice as big as the 90 it replaced. Even my foxface seems big to me now.

On the clowns, I misunderstood your original post as a question about an upcoming upgrade. I didn't realize you had already moved your existing fish. Moving my clowns from the 90 to the 185 seemed to upset their former equilibrium and they've only now started to spawn regularly again.

Again, I wish you luck.