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Gweeds

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I posted this over on ultimate reef forum... but not had a lot of response. Am hoping one of you kindly RC guys might be able to dig out the perfect fish to fit the bill.

First up the set up:
1200 litre mixed reef, tank is 99" X 26" X 24". Led lighting, sumped with a big fuge and plenty of pod production... despite the CBB on the stick list!

Current fish stock:
2 maroon clowns
3 humbug damsels
4 caribbean blue bass
1 orange shoulder tang
1 regal tang
1 parrot wrasse (fairy wrasse of some description)
1 yellow wrasse
1 copperband butterfly
1 coral hawkfish
1 heni butterfly
1 algae blenny
1 yellow tail blue damsel

Corals:
Various softies Inc mushrooms, leathers, toadstool, zoas, kenya trees etc.
LPS Inc hammer, frogspawn, torch

Other inverts
Starfish, urchins, conches, hermits, various snails... coral banded shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp, emerald crabs.

So, here's the rub... I'm after a bit of an oddball... something big hopefully...

I know none of these are suitable but shows the kinda thing I'm after... dog faced puffer, volitans lion, panther grouper, queen trigger

That's about it...

Currently thinking either blond naso, blue throat trigger, valentini puffer... but easily persuaded.

Are any of the big angels considered reef safe...?

Really don't want a shoal of small fish, although beautiful I did that when the tank was FW (130 odd Buenos airies tetras... was worth it for the look on the guys face at the LFS... went something like this - 'could I get some of the BAs please?'
'Certainly, how many?'
'All of them please'
'Sorry... what now? There's over a hundred in there!'
'Yes, I know... all of them please'
'Right... please tell me you don't have a biorb?!')

So something that makes you go wow... is big / ugly / interesting / different and won't eat my inverts... easy huh?

Oh and eels are out of the question as my better half has a paralysing phobia of snakes and anything that remotely resembles them. Eel = expensive divorce lol.

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What about a Genicanthus angel? I believe they are supposed to be more reef safe than the other large angels.
A friend of mine had a male G.melanspilos which was stunning. He had to get rid as it started to bully his bristletooth tang and bicolor angel but the tank was smaller than yours (72x24x24) so you may be okay. I don't think it touched his corals at all. G.bellus are really striking looking too.
 
Nick_Northern said:
What about a Genicanthus angel? I believe they are supposed to be more reef safe than the other large angels.
A friend of mine had a male G.melanspilos which was stunning. He had to get rid as it started to bully his bristletooth tang and bicolor angel but the tank was smaller than yours (72x24x24) so you may be okay. I don't think it touched his corals at all. G.bellus are really striking looking too.
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Genicanthus personatus is a beautiful fish which I would love to have... price and availability is of course an issue... but if I saw one I may not be able to resist!

I assume as planktonivores, you could keep more than one type of genicanthus species in a tank?

It's got me thinking now!

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Gweeds said:
Genicanthus personatus is a beautiful fish which I would love to have... price and availability is of course an issue... but if I saw one I may not be able to resist!

I assume as planktonivores, you could keep more than one type of genicanthus species in a tank?

It's got me thinking now!

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Yeah they are another stunning one, can't say i've ever seen one for sale though.

I can't really comment on whether you could keep more than one species or not, presumably you would want males as they generally seem to have the most striking patterns and i'm not sure if multiple males might fight? A single species harem would look cool though, group of bellus would be great as the females look even cooler than the males to my eyes. Hopefully someone thats tried it will respond.

One thing I would say is that if you haven't seen one in person then photo's don't really do G.melanospilos any justice, I was with my mate at the shop when he spotted it and after a frantic bit of googling re compatability he put a deposit on it right away as we had never seen one before!
 
Quoyi parrotfish? Not sure it gets as big as you'd like though but they are beautiful and seem to be generally reef safe. Plus, they tend to be reasonably priced.
 
Dmorty217 said:
De Jong had some awhile back, I also think a local fish store in Germany had some. Achilles Torben can tell you who has (or had) them
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So... to update and also to cross genicanthus personatus off the list... one of my contacts in the UK can get a male in... Any guesses on what I've been quoted on price?

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Gweeds said:
So... to update and also to cross genicanthus personatus off the list... one of my contacts in the UK can get a male in... Any guesses on what I've been quoted on price?

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If it is coming thru Arie, 35k usd...
 
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