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anything besides a clown?

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Candi

I need fish recommendations guys.

I pulled my clown out of my 24g aquapod as he was harassing my purple firefish into constant hiding (which is a shame, he hosted my neon green toadstool and I really loved how the tank looked with him in it), he's currently in fishy time out (ie 5g tank) for 2 weeks before I try reintroducing him although I'm not confident there will be a change so I'm thinking ahead ;)

I figured I could rehome him and get a smaller new clown and hopefully it will behave since it'll be the last fish in the tank... but I'd also like to see if anyone can come up with any other options.

The tank is home to my purple firefish (my favorite), a yellow clown goby, a green banded goby, and a cleaner shrimp. If it was something that would eat pods & live mysid all the better as the tank is overrun with both now that the 6 line no longer lives here (she was evicted for also harassing the firefish and was replaced by the clowngoby & shrimp).

I really like the royal gramma but I have one in my 70g so I wanted some variety. A jawfish would be nice but my sand isn't deep enough.

Any other small docile fish that like to swim around I'm not thinking of?

Here's the tank (sorry for the blurry photo) for reference:
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mladencovic

If you have a mature and very live sand, Rainford's goby (Amblygobius rainfordi) is beautiful fish and very docile and at the same time not shy. It is one of the howering gobies. There are plenty of other gobies as well. It is fun to watch it "chew" the sand.
 
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Candi

Thanks for the recommendation. I don't know how live my sand bed is but there are mysid shrimp & pods running all over all the time (I have what I refer to best as an infestation of shrimp in my tanks LOL) would he eat those? Think there would be any issues with my purple firefish? He likes to hover in the middle of the tank (really only big open area) so I wonder if they would be ok together) My green banded stays on the bottom 99% of the time and the yellow clown is all over, but mostly perching on the rics.

Wish more then one firefish could be kept together, I'd love a standard in there too.
 
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mladencovic

Candi said:
Thanks for the recommendation. I don't know how live my sand bed is but there are mysid shrimp & pods running all over all the time (I have what I refer to best as an infestation of shrimp in my tanks LOL) would he eat those? Think there would be any issues with my purple firefish? He likes to hover in the middle of the tank (really only big open area) so I wonder if they would be ok together) My green banded stays on the bottom 99% of the time and the yellow clown is all over, but mostly perching on the rics.

Wish more then one firefish could be kept together, I'd love a standard in there too.
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Looks like your sand is live enough. These fish will take a mouthfull of sand and then will sift it in its mouth and throw it out through the gills. Really cool to watch. They really go for microscopic life, so they will not eat the pods or shrimp, but will eat what they eat and maybe their larvae if they are crawling on the sand. It is extremly great for controling the algae and cyano growth on the sand.
 
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jazzsam

I wish I would have done my "clown" research before I got one also! They can be terrors. I am going to try it again but with a different type of clown.
 
blange3

blange3

I'm with Jeff on the wrasses.

If you like grammas, but want something different than 2 royal grammas, try a blackcap basselet. I have one and I love it!

Just out of curiosity, what kind of clown are we talking about?
 
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DaveK

Subliminal said:
How about a scooter blenny?
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This would likely be a poor choice, since they have similar feeding requirements to mandarin gobies. However, it might work, if you can get the fish feeding on a lot of different, generally available frozen foods.
 
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Candi

Thanks for all the ideas.

Clown is just a standard false perc. he was out of the tank for 2 weeks (during which time my firefish was out front and center the whole time) I reintroduced him to the tank yesterday and the first thing he did was chase the firefish into hiding.... he seems to be patrolling the tank now and makes frequent trips to the back where the firefish is hiding to make sure he stays there :mad:

Looks like I might just keep the three gobies that are in there, and consider this my goby & pod/mysid tank LOL a 6 line is what started the problems (she was the first fish to suddenly start chasing the firefish) so they are out, I'd LOVE a scooter blenny but wouldn't want to risk getting one that wouldn't eat frozen (although the tank is positively crawling with mysid and pods I know he'd eat through those sooner then later). Everything else mentioned sounds iffy to me with the firefish (starting to think it would be easier to set up a new nano for the firefish eh? LOL)

I do have one small blue/green chromis who was kicked out of the group in my 70g... he's living in my 30g right now with my green spotted puffer, maybe I could put him in there for a bit of movement.
 
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Candi

I have done 0 research yet so please don't flame... just an idea I'm throwing out there :D

Could a dwarf seahorse move into this tank with the gobies (assuming I could work out the feeding) or would that be a poor choice due to the corals I have (frogspawn, hammer, etc)?
 
panmanmatt

panmanmatt

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Nope, not a good idea. Either the corals or the gobies will kill the dwarf seahorses, just a matter of which gets them first.
Not to mention the fact that you would never find a dwarf seahorse in that tank. They are smaller than your clown goby when full grown.
 
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Candi

Sorry guess dwarf seahorse was a bad choice of terms, I just meant one of the smaller types of seahorses (again sorry I no very little about them, this was just one of those "hmm.." type ideas... I was thinking about the nano tank on mervsreef.com I think it was and I remember him having a smallish seahorse in with a goby or two.
 
panmanmatt

panmanmatt

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Still not a good idea. Melev ending up losing both of his seahorses to a nasty case of tail rot. The one lost over 1/2 it's tail before the ordeal was over. Most likely caused by the stress of the small environment or from being stung by the corals they were housed with.

The next size seahorse up from the dwarfs will reach an average adult size of 7 inches or so.

Your tank could be used for seahorses, but it would require a total make over from what you have now and a few performace modifications to make it work.

Personally I think you'd be better off looking at other options.
 
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Candi

Thank you for the info, absolutely agree with you that it's a bad idea... they are gorgeous creatures and deserve a tank setup for their needs... poor "hmm" idea ;)

Think I'll stick with the gobies, maybe put the loner chromis in with them since he would give me a bit of movement that I'll miss when the clown leaves.
 
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