wat are some carribean nano reef fish

cudamaster13

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wat are some cool carribean nano reef fish and shrimp/crabs like damsels that can be kept in a 20 gallon reef setup with reef hermits
 
I recently dove the carribean. Off of Roatan to be exact. I saw many royal grammas, damsels and boxfish. Cant put a boxfish in your tank though ;)

I believe that liveaquaria has a section devoted to carribean fish.
 
neon gobies, rusty gobies, yellow head jawfish (questionable in a 20g), grammas, swiss guard basslet, red cardinalfish, sailfin goby, purple chromis, sunshine chromis, and, I'm sure I'm missing some nice ones still. ;)
 
neon gobies, rusty gobies, yellow head jawfish (questionable in a 20g), grammas, swiss guard basslet, red cardinalfish, sailfin goby, purple chromis, sunshine chromis, and, I'm sure I'm missing some nice ones still. ;)
Nice selection, you could add Pygmy angels to the list but the chromic species not only get big and lose color but as adults are very aggressive.
 
Chromis are nice fish and school together and are peaceful inhabitants.

Not all species are colorful or peaceful as adults. All of the Florida species except the Caribbean blue (Chromis cyaneus) turn grayish as adults, get fairly large and all of them will fight until you are left with only one if you do not have a very large aquarium.
 
Chalk bass. One of my favorite fish and will probably be the cheapest thing you put in the tank. Beautiful peaceful fish.
 
Some small caribbean blennies:
Yellow Face Pike Blenny- Chaenopsis limbaughi
Carribean Sailfin Blenny - Emblemaria pandionis

Both are small and great for nano's have one of each now in different tanks and some of my favorite fish.
 
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