Fairweather friends

[TankBuster]

Flame angel and coral beauty will fight. My coral beauty developed ich after 2 days of being with the flame because of stress. A royal gramma will be great and the clowns. Best to buy the clowns as a pair already and you know about the cleaner wrasse, starvation. A peaceful goby would be great also, they will eat sand and you can watch it filter out the unwanted particles through its gills searching for food. There is a goby that is white with orange markings, I heard they are a bit aggressive so avoid that one. I dont recall its name though. Oh and get more live rock when you can before you buy the other fish. Thats my 2 cents.

 

[ewurm]

Flame angel and coral beauty will fight. My coral beauty developed ich after 2 days of being with the flame because of stress. A royal gramma will be great and the clowns. Best to buy the clowns as a pair already and you know about the cleaner wrasse, starvation. A peaceful goby would be great also, they will eat sand and you can watch it filter out the unwanted particles through its gills searching for food. There is a goby that is white with orange markings, I heard they are a bit aggressive so avoid that one. I dont recall its name though. Oh and get more live rock when you can before you buy the other fish. Thats my 2 cents.

Don't want to curse it, but my wrasse is eating flakes like crazy. I am really hoping it works out. I don't have sand, I have aragonite. And I wanted to ask, if the flame and the coral beauty had a big enough tank, would they be OK? If so, how big? Already plotting a bigger tank.

 

[TankBuster]

My other reef tank was 200 g. and they still fought, especially at feeding time and at night. But that doesnt mean you may have the same trouble in a large tank, but in anything smaller I would not do it unfortunately. The key there is alot of live rock for hiding. If you get halides, dont underestimate the blue green chromis, their colors are brilliant under those lights, and the blue devil also looks great but they are aggressive towards tank mates. I have one with a shark and a dragon wrasse and he is still doing great. That is really amazing that the wrasse is eating flakes.

 

[ewurm]

My other reef tank was 200 g. and they still fought, especially at feeding time and at night. But that doesnt mean you may have the same trouble in a large tank, but in anything smaller I would not do it unfortunately. The key there is alot of live rock for hiding. If you get halides, dont underestimate the blue green chromis, their colors are brilliant under those lights, and the blue devil also looks great but they are aggressive towards tank mates. I have one with a shark and a dragon wrasse and he is still doing great. That is really amazing that the wrasse is eating flakes.

I had a Blue Devil, and it did harass the other fish. It looked great, but I got rid of all my damsels, I don't want trouble.

 

[freeNINETY9]

Here is my dream tank, let me know if these are compatible:

cleaner wrasse
dwarf lionfish
coral beauty
flame angel
1 pair percula clowns
royal gramma

What size do I need for this mess?

i have a pair of clowns, a fumanchu lionfish, and a coral beauty in a 47gallon. i think a flame would fight the coral beauty if im not mistaken. wrasse would probably bother the fish...and theyre hard to keep.

 

[ewurm]

So far so good on the wrasse, he cleans the fish when they want to be cleaned. He eats flakes too. Besides, I never shy away from a challenge.

 

[blackwolfXKAV]

w/ some of those fish, its hard, because they can vary so much between each fish.

 

[Max]

Fwiw, you should consider mysis, baby brine and finely chopped squid etc. I find it's much better to make your own foods and tailor them to your fish.
cheers and best of luck please do keep us posted.
Max

 

[ewurm]

Fwiw, you should consider mysis, baby brine and finely chopped squid etc. I find it's much better to make your own foods and tailor them to your fish.
cheers and best of luck please do keep us posted.
Max

Already using mysis, brine, and a marine mix that contains squid, plus spirulina, and two types of high quality flakes.

 

[davo]

I saw a cleaner wrasse clean another fish today ewurm for the first time with my own eyes. It was the coolest thing ever. What you need is the shrimp to clean the wrasse, the wrasse to clean a bigger fish, and then... well lets just leave it with coelancanth