Good community fish for an open-top tank...

[Newreeflady]

Hi there.

[Let me preface this to say that this is merely to get ideas for my tank, it doesn't mean that I will get any suggested fish, or that any unsuggested fish will not be gotten...]

Now that that's out of the way,

I'm moving my bta and two clownfish to a 36g bowfront. Total water volume after rock and sump is probably somewhere around 40g of water.

I am looking to stock this lightly as i'll just be running a cpr bakpak 2 on it and it should be low-maintenance. This probably translates to "no big fish"

The sand bed is about 1.5" deep and lays on top of an egg-crate, so no sand burrowing animals will be considered.

I will eventually add a mandarin as they are my favorite fish. So whatever is added now must be compatible with my clownfish and a mandarinfish.

Ok, shoot ideas off if you've got 'em... All fish must be striking in appearance (no chromis, etc)

Thanks,
Angela

 

[Vincerama2]

I think the general concensus is that 40g is not enough for a mandarin, unless you have one that eats prepared food.

I like my little yellow clown goby, though if you have more than one, I hear that they strip flesh off of SPS.

V

 

[Newreeflady]

Hi Vince, I have experience with mandarinfish. I trained my last one to eat mysis and it did great in my 65g. I know it can be done, so i'm not asking about the fish here.

Anything that nips sps is not going in...

-A

 

[sid700]

Cardinal fish?

If you don't mind, what does the eggrate under the sand do?

 

[Newreeflady]

Hi sid,

Yes, actually i've decided to do Banggai cardinalfish.

I put the eggcrate under the sand for extra stability for the rock considering I didn't want a huge depth of sand.


-A