Must have reef fish for a 50g. cube?
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Greybeard
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I'm building a 60g cube, and still considering if I want to put a screen top on it... just so that I can add wrasses, dartfish, and dottybacks to my available fish groups (jumpers).
A pair of clowns is kind of a requirement, for me anyway. I just added my first fish, a pair of ORA snowflakes, last weekend.
Concentrate on gobies and blennies, perhaps cardinals, if you like them. Some of the bassletts would work, chalk bass, for instance. Dragonettes, if they're eating prepared foods, would work. I'm going to have a hawkfish, at some point, but I want the tank fairly mature before adding one.
Some Chromis and Damsels would be OK... I wouldn't want one, but they're OK
With the right flow for SPS, you're going to want to stay away from clingfish and pipefish, (and seahorses). Too delicate for high flow.
Eels are probably out too... 1st, they'd eat the other small fish that would be suitable. 2nd, they're likely to end up on the carpet.
A pair of clowns is kind of a requirement, for me anyway. I just added my first fish, a pair of ORA snowflakes, last weekend.
Concentrate on gobies and blennies, perhaps cardinals, if you like them. Some of the bassletts would work, chalk bass, for instance. Dragonettes, if they're eating prepared foods, would work. I'm going to have a hawkfish, at some point, but I want the tank fairly mature before adding one.
Some Chromis and Damsels would be OK... I wouldn't want one, but they're OK
With the right flow for SPS, you're going to want to stay away from clingfish and pipefish, (and seahorses). Too delicate for high flow.
Eels are probably out too... 1st, they'd eat the other small fish that would be suitable. 2nd, they're likely to end up on the carpet.
strike2867
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The firefish pair will likely end up being one. They don't do well in pairs.
CoralsAddiction
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Cherub should do ok in your cube. I personally would skip the others due to their size.
Otherwise I would recommend either a swissguard basslet or a yellow assessor basslet.
Depending on what your purpose.
I got a tiny copperband For my brother 60 gal cube so it takes care of aptaisia.
A yellow kole eye tang 3" to control algae.
A 6 line wrass (jumper alert ��
A pair of nemo and one tiny dory (my bro and his wife must have fish ��
I got a tiny copperband For my brother 60 gal cube so it takes care of aptaisia.
A yellow kole eye tang 3" to control algae.
A 6 line wrass (jumper alert ��
A pair of nemo and one tiny dory (my bro and his wife must have fish ��
DopeCantWin
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A Copperband requires a 125 gallon, you'd be amazed how big they get under the right conditions, http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+25+212&pcatid=212
Tangs need a minimum 75 gallon. Dori needs a 240 gallon.
Every one of those fish can jump.
eatbreakfast
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Dwarf angels may nip at LPS.
Sixlines can be aggressive towards fish added after them.
Firefish can be paired, they are intolerant of consexuals and it is not easy to sex them, but if you can find a bonded pr they will do well together.
Good choices include: yellow assessor, royal gramma, midas blenny, grammistes blenny, possum wrasse, pink streak wrasse, swales basslet, zebra dartfish.
Sixlines can be aggressive towards fish added after them.
Firefish can be paired, they are intolerant of consexuals and it is not easy to sex them, but if you can find a bonded pr they will do well together.
Good choices include: yellow assessor, royal gramma, midas blenny, grammistes blenny, possum wrasse, pink streak wrasse, swales basslet, zebra dartfish.
