Wife wants a red fish

[Reefer54]

sea apple, though toxic as all get out, once established and happy, if you can keep them fed, they are brilliantly colored.

 

[Andy_B]

does it have to be a fish

why not a fire shrimp or 3

I was going to suggest the same thing

 

[chipchip]

How about a Candy Cane hogfish?

 

[Deinonych]

Any flasher wrasse.

+1

P. cyaneus and P. lineopunctatus are both red with colorful highlights. Very active, too.

 

[RJT]

Thank you for the replies.

We picked a red goniopora for now. I am still looking into the soldierfish SDguy suggested, if I can get a small one I am 99% sure I am get it.

Cannot do shrimp, anyone of the Halichoeres wrasses in the tank would have a nice colorful meal.

Linespots are beautiful. I had one, he was always out. And I totally forgot about them-this is a great choice. Looks like I will have a few more additions soon. I'll just blame her for this.

 

[RJT]

How about a Candy Cane hogfish?

That's a good looking fish. I have never seen one in person.

I'm starting to get too many options now. It may turnout to be the first fish liveaquaria gets back in stock out the ones given on this thread.

 

[FishBo]

Ruby Red Dragonet

 

[SDguy]

lol, nevermind....

Did you have a suggestion? I've been considering something red for my tank as well.

 

[namxas]

A few red fishes...

 

[the808state]

flame hawk, flame wrasse, flame angel, assorted gobies that are red. Red Acans, red Zoanthids etc can also add that red flare. If its a reef i'd go with flame hawk or flame wrasse.

 

[kikoreefer]

I have a pinstripe wrasse I got free and he grew on me lol pretty cool fish gets along great with my Melanarus and makes a cocoon to sleep which is pretty cool to watch

 

[mastersonr]

They seem not very active. They must be great fish because everyone that I know that has one has nothing but praise for them. I just don't see it.

+1 on the Flame Hawk. They may not grab you at first sight but they really do have a great personality and are active in a different but unique way. Instead of constantly swimming back and forth they bounce from rock to rock, perch, look around, and then move again. Mine is always on the move to a different place. He covers the entire water column in my tank too. I like the fact that he has a different type of activity pattern than my other fish. It adds some diversity to the tank. I had guests over the holiday and people really enjoyed watching him.

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I would do a flame hawk,really are fun to watch and have great personality.Mine doesn't bother the shrimp or crabs.

 

[pinnatus]

McCoskers wrasse

 

[DopeCantWin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_snapper_(fish)

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

Dot n dash flasher wrasse maybe.

 

[johnike]

Love my Flame Hawk, always up to something entertaining.

 

[triggreef]

Great. Now I'm looking for a red fish as well. Some other thoughts:

waiting for one of these for a long time now.

 

[jun_ior50]

Anyone say Flame Angel? I say Flame Angel.

 

[Nina51]

i dunno where that came from. i meant to type LONG nose hawkfish. doh!