looking for mid size fish for 90

BonesCJ

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My wife and I are running a 90 with apx 100lbs of Live rock
We currently have 4 blue yellowtail damsels, 1 yellow tang, 1 perc clown and a soon to arrive Engineer goby, will be adding a mandarin in a couple months.

She was hoping we could add another mid size fish and I was looking for suggestions. We had a coral beauty angel in our old 90 and he was an absolute monster! So while dwarf angels are possible we are a little leery, we were hoping it would be a fish that would be out and swimming vs hovering alot such as cardinal fish do.

I am "Fishing" for suggestions, let me here em!
 
Here are some suggestions of some good reef safe fish:
- Yellow pyramid butterfly or zoster butterfly if you do not want any more yellow
- Copper band butterfly (sometimes hard to get them to eat, and probably not a good choice with clams), Longnose butterfly, or schooling bannerfish (Heniochus diphreutes)
- Foxface (usually reef safe), however, it is yellow as well and I have heard conflicting results with YT's
- I also like Lamarck's angel's, swallowtail angels, and bellus angels. LA does state 125 gallons for these, so these may not be an option.
 
Yeah sadly all those butterflies have alot of yellow

did think of one that could work, a male lyretail anthia
 
In case you aren't aware, Anthias have tough feeding requirements.

not true on all accounts of athias. some are extremely easy to feed. ive never seen an issue with squamipinis or with hutchis or with bartletts.

but sunburst, purple queen, squarespots this are some of the toughers there are many more though
 
not to hijack, but i was under the impression sunburst are one of the easiest to feed once they start eating. easier as in they dont require multiple small feedings throughout the day.
 

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