Stock a tank game
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I'm trying to play a similar game with my tank - a rainbow of diversity! All of the below are currently living in an overstocked 65, but will be moving to a 220 as soon as I get the thing put together:
Red- I've found this one a challenge, as I simply _refuse_ to add a tomato clown, or keep hawkfish with my shrimp! I've got peppermint, skunk cleaner and blood shrimp, and a linespot flasher wrasse that read as pretty much red ... when the shrimp are visible at all! The fins of my Bali exquisite wrasse add another dash of true red to the mix.
Orange- Flame and coral beauty angelfish, orange-back fairy wrasse, ocellaris clownfish.
Yellow- Midas blenny, male yellow watchman goby, the backs of three Bartlett's anthias, the back half of a royal gramma, the bellies of three azure damselfish, and the eyes of a young kole tang.
Green- Not easy! Zebra dartfish and the Bali exquisite wrasse. The tail of a six-line wrasse offers a green accent, but see the purple section below . . . (Not in the tank, but on my list for the big box; green clown gobies, which, though shy, would add red as well, and a Quoy's parrotfish!)
Blue- Three azure damselfish, the belly of the orange-back wrasse and the midnight blue of the coral beauty angel. Many of my wrasses and gobies have dots and sheens of blue as accent colors.
Purple- The heads of the royal gramma and orange-back wrasse, the flanks of a six-line wrasse (Danger, Will Robinson! These guys have a reputation for being exceptionally cranky - I inherited this one when one of my son's friends broke down her reef, and so far, he's been well-behaved. Not all of them are.) and the kole tang all display some kind of purple shade.
These guys are all at least "reef-safe with caution", with the two angelfish probably the biggest risk.
~Bruce
Red- I've found this one a challenge, as I simply _refuse_ to add a tomato clown, or keep hawkfish with my shrimp! I've got peppermint, skunk cleaner and blood shrimp, and a linespot flasher wrasse that read as pretty much red ... when the shrimp are visible at all! The fins of my Bali exquisite wrasse add another dash of true red to the mix.
Orange- Flame and coral beauty angelfish, orange-back fairy wrasse, ocellaris clownfish.
Yellow- Midas blenny, male yellow watchman goby, the backs of three Bartlett's anthias, the back half of a royal gramma, the bellies of three azure damselfish, and the eyes of a young kole tang.
Green- Not easy! Zebra dartfish and the Bali exquisite wrasse. The tail of a six-line wrasse offers a green accent, but see the purple section below . . . (Not in the tank, but on my list for the big box; green clown gobies, which, though shy, would add red as well, and a Quoy's parrotfish!)
Blue- Three azure damselfish, the belly of the orange-back wrasse and the midnight blue of the coral beauty angel. Many of my wrasses and gobies have dots and sheens of blue as accent colors.
Purple- The heads of the royal gramma and orange-back wrasse, the flanks of a six-line wrasse (Danger, Will Robinson! These guys have a reputation for being exceptionally cranky - I inherited this one when one of my son's friends broke down her reef, and so far, he's been well-behaved. Not all of them are.) and the kole tang all display some kind of purple shade.
These guys are all at least "reef-safe with caution", with the two angelfish probably the biggest risk.
~Bruce
Diamond Jack
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Red- Hawkfish
Orange- Clownfish pair or Copperband Butterfly.
Yellow- Yellow Tang and or yellow assesor
Blue- Powder Blue Tang
Purple- Purple tang
Green- Psychedelic Mandarin fish
Orange- Clownfish pair or Copperband Butterfly.
Yellow- Yellow Tang and or yellow assesor
Blue- Powder Blue Tang
Purple- Purple tang
Green- Psychedelic Mandarin fish
edsimmons
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Interest you would go with Powder Blue rather than Pacific Blue tang. Nice list I hadn't thought of the Yellow Assessor!
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Diamond Jack
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Thanks. Its pretty much my stocking list for my new build.
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