Need Some Red

[bhammer]

Hi All. I have a 280G 6X3 tank. I am looking for some red in the tank. I have a Yellow and Regal Tang, Orange Spotted & Foxface Rabbit. I also have some of the smaller fish such as Chromis and Firefish. Any thoughts on this? I don't mind something small but would rather focus on something that can get 3-4" or larger.

 

[SDguy]

Flame wrasses

 

[bhammer]

That's a pretty fish. I thought wrasses were pretty agressive fish in general though. Just about all my reefing buddies I know have had one turn on other fish after a year or two????

 

[rgentry123]

flame hawk fish. cool fish with tons of personality. do a google image search. they are not compatible with shrimp though.

 

[julie180]

I don't think the flasher and fairy wrasses are known to be overly aggressive.

 

[spsgtr]

peppermint hogfish

 

[Iwishihadgills]

flame angel

 

[J Nguyen]

Peppermint Angel :bounce2::bounce3::bounce1:

 

[NexDog]

^^ Dream On.

Longnose Hawk too.

For me red is pretty covered under orange and Anthias fit that bill. Blue and yellow is easy. I'm looking to fill up on pink/purple next.

 

[snorvich]

Fairy wrasses are not normally aggressive (at least the red ones are not).

 

[bhammer]

Cool, I have a couple ideas. Thanks for the ideas!!! I am looking at orange as well to fit the red.

 

[walt13]

Flame hawk for sure. I do not think pics really capture the deep red color. Great personailty always begging for food.
Walt

 

[wrasseguy2]

flames fairys aer nice i also like c. condei, c. rubriventralis c. rubripinnis, and c. filamentosus...c. filamentosus can be quite aggressive for a fairy and is more of a dark red
these are pics of the ones i listed
c.condei

c. rubriventralis

c.rubripinnis

c. filamentosus

this is a possum wrasse that is a red/orange color though they are not in the open much

and this is a yellowfin fairy c.flavidorsalis it has some red in it

 

[bhammer]

I like the Fairy wrasses and Flame Hawks. I will do some reading on those guys.