Interesting/Unusual Fish For Biocube

[ceruleanseaslug]

I have a biocube 29 softie/lps tank (plus a rock flower anemone I picked up yesterday) and the only fish in it is a plain ocellaris clownfish I've had since June. There's also a peppermint shrimp but I never see it. I've had a couple of other fish in it, a sixline wrasse that died when I went out of town for two weeks and a blue dot toby that I had to take back to the lfs because it was going after my corals. I want to get a black ocellaris to go with my current clown and one other fish but I'm not sure what. I like the harlequin basslet a lot, but I'd be worried about how large it is. I like coral crouchers but I'd like a fish I actually get to see. Flame hawks are also pretty cool and I don't really care about my peppermint shrimp. If anyone has any other recommendations I'd love to hear them.

 

[ginpang]

Interesting/Unusual Fish For Biocube

Long nose hawk fish , starry blenny , blue spot jawfish/ pearly jawfish, griessengeri goby, stonogobiops Dracula ...all neon gobies, green band goby, red head goby...

 

[davocean]

Tail spot blenny are one of my favorite small tank fish, colorful and usually very curious, great personalities

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Golden Midas Blenny

 

[ceruleanseaslug]

Does anyone have any more info on the harlequin basslets? Thank you for the recommendations

 

[blobfish]

If you wanna go expensive you could do a dwarf golden eel- that's certainly interesting

 

[ceruleanseaslug]

Maybe one day with the eel but not for a long time. I was going to get one for my 40 breeder but I decided to go open top. I'm probably going to start working at my lfs soon so maybe I can save up enough store credit for one of those once my clown is bigger, because it's pretty small right now.

 

[nivram]

Candy basslet or a swissguard if on a budget

 

[Genera]

Does anyone have any more info on the harlequin basslets? Thank you for the recommendations

Serranus tigrinus, usually seen around 3-4.5in max, live alone or in pairs, will probably eat/pick on/at shrimp, small fish, and small crustaceans, typically won't pick at coral, anemones, starfish, or other inverts. If you decide to get them, I'd get a bonded pair and call it a day for fish in your tank. You might even get some spawning if you do something right.

 

[Genera]

A single frogfish would be interesting too, just don't get any small fish/shrimp and whatnot.