reef/clam safe fishes for a 28?

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i have a ywg, royal gramma, and a blue damsel with yellow tail. anyone have any ideas of clam/sps safe fish for a 28? any suggestions besides clownfish and firefish?

how about either of these:

sixline wrasse
some type of blenny
or?

 

[skinz78]

I have cardinals, scooter blennie, dottybacks, and a lawnmower blenny wich is iffy.

The scooter blennie is highly recommended they are awesome. A sixline would be ok.

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11483545#post11483545 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skinz78
I have cardinals, scooter blennie, dottybacks, and a lawnmower blenny wich is iffy.

The scooter blennie is highly recommended they are awesome. A sixline would be ok.

if i get a scooter blenny will it compete with the watchman and a sixline wrasse for the microfauna? do i have to have an established refugium for them?

i dont think i can get any dottybacks because of the royal gramma, i was thinking of the cardinals also but they look really weird and still not used to the look

 

[skinz78]

I think the cardinals look better when you have a few of them. Yes the scooter will compete. You should have a refugium. I have never had any luck with royal gamma's mine always disappear. So I can't help you there lol sorry.

 

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how many is a few for them? because i think i might get them too. i think i'm sold on them now. i think so far its these:

-scooter blenny
-sixline wrasse
-banggai cardinals
-mandarin

i know i can only pick one of the 3 that eat copepods and have to have an established refugium for them; so which one of those should i get? wrasse, mandarin, or scooter blenny? keep in mind that im going to go ahead and add baffles to the sump and add live rock and wait a few months to get the pod population up

 

[CMcNeil]

id get the mandarin if you can find a good healthy one in your area.

 

[skinz78]

No don't mix the scooter and the mandrin. They might kill each other and for sure they will not have enough to eat. Buy one or the other. I beleve scooters are alot hardier.

As for bangaii's do 2 or 3. I only have one now, I am cheap when it comes to fish and they are a little spendy to me

I'D RATHER BUY MORE CLAMS LOL, What I know I have a problems and I am ok with that.

 

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i know what you mean. i wish i could buy more clams but two of the four i had died for unexpected reasons and i really dont want to get anymore until a few months from now and see how the other two clams i have do :\

is there a problem with adding 2 males or 2 female banggais? i know i wont be able to tell but just wondering

and i think might try a mandarin or scooter blenny in a few months

 

[Toygrr]

I have a scooter blenny too, they're freakin' awesome. I don't have a fuge yet, but i attached a hard piece of airline tubing to a feeder syringe and i hand feed him brine shrimp.

Theyre very reef safe, and curious little buggers everytime i put a new rock or invert he cautiously inspects it, but comes to my hand the second i put it in