semi-agressive, reef friendly

[Amy83820]

I've got a 90 g reef tank i'm going to stock. Any suggestions for a semi-agressive tank that is still reef friendly? I'll be moving a 6line wrasse and coral from my 12 gallon. Could i do the wrasse, a few damsels, a maroon clown, and a yellow tang? Can maroon clowns be kept in pairs? Would i have to add them at the same time? What about some 'lower tank' fish? Could i add blennys with this list?
Thanks!

 

[Sk8r]

Blennies can probably take care of themselves; gobies and dragonettes not so, not with that wrasse. Maroons are roughhousers, in pairs or singly. I'd get a pair, rather than try to match two singles, for that reason: they change gender, and you don't want to get one that's not quite what you think. A sailfin blenny might be interesting. Maybe a small school of blue chromis. Get odd numbers on them. They're in constant motion.

 

[Amy83820]

Can the chromis hold their own with the maroons and the damsels?

 

[Sk8r]

We always had some, with the meanest cussed damsel in the universe, one of those black ones with the bright blue v-stripe, a yellow tail, and a blue devil. The maroons will hang in a corner and stay mostly to themselves. THe others will chase up and down. Be careful of the maroons, though: if annoyed, they may physically grab the offender and stuff him in their anemone, if any. This is usually fatal.

 

[Amy83820]

I know people usually just use them as cycling fish, but i really like those 3 stripe black and white damsels. I would like to try to find a combination of fish so i can have some, but i worry that they are too aggressive.
The tank is new, so if there ever is an anenome, it won't be for a long time! Will maroons host pretty much anything just like a perc will?

 

[Ironsheikh]

i actually like damsels more than most angels and usually keep some --the straight blues are pretty mean and the dominos are really mean...but only to eachother. any combo of diff damsels can be kept together --its about space/territory/a rock to sleep in, AND equal size, trick is adding at the same time OR rearranging the whole tank when you add one or better yet a couple at a time. I've also noticed having a mirror background helps cuz they get used to seeing more damels around. The worst is buying just one and letting it live alone for a while --then any new damsel is in trouble unless its bigger and stronger.

I also like royal grammas and there are lots of nice pseudochromis to choose from. all these fish are mostly mean to eachother, I've never had a damsel,gramma,pseudo attack another species of fish in 10 yrs of keeping marine

chromis are schooling fish and will be happier if you get 3 to5 or more --then they are better off

 

[trey007]

just my 2 cents. I just tore apart my 120g to get rid of 3 fish!!! which ones you ask a black/ white striped damsel and a mated pair of maroons.Iwas extremely sad but had to do it. The maroons were very beautiful and i had them for 5 years, but they get very agressive and dominate the tank. Once they establish the tank as their own whenever I put new corals in there or try to landscape they push them off the rocks. They knock everything over and especially will not let you put anything near there anemone. Also they will fin your rocks up in the corners down to the glass.