New to saltwater need help choosing fish

[Ornatapinnis]

I think it is going to be tough to offer a good answer to this question with as little information as given about this aquarium. How is it being filtered? How long has it been up and running? Has anything been done to biologically establish it? Have you tested the waters parameters and if so, what are they? What is your "end product" goal with this aquarium? In other words, are you wanting, a fish aquarium? live rock? inverts? Live corals? What lighting system does this aquarium have?

Give us some detailed information about the set up and I bet a much better advise can be offered.

Joel

 

[BIGgourami]

Give us some detailed information about the set up and I bet a much better advise can be offered.

im going along the lines of BASIC AS HELL

1 gramma
or
1 smaller blue damsel (yellow tail, fiji, yellow belly, etc)
or
smaller pseudochromis
with
yellow watchman
or
neon gobies
and a few hermit crabs and astrea snails

HOB filter rated fro a 20 gallon
a 50 watt heater
a hydrometer
SW master test kit
and some live rock and aragonite sand

 

[Veacane]

Live rock and inverts (crabs, clams, snails) thats what we did in my enviro science class.

 

[Cantra]

I don't know much about the aquarium she set it up and has had it running since we got back to school from the hurricane and she hasn't told us anything about the aquarium even when we ask. She tested the water parameters but didn't tell us what they were. I want a fish aquarium maybe with some live rock and inverts but am pretty sure i can't have all of that. I know i don't want corals cause from what i've heard they are hard to take care of.

 

[Fabio's Dad]

Either way, do research on all of the things suggested here, or on what ever you think you might want, before you do anything. Good old fashioned books and real liturature is the safest and most acurate answer to a lot of questions like this one, in my opinion. It seems that whenever I'm completely void of knowledge about something in aquaria that I want to dive into,(pun intended), the most important things that I need to know come at least 85 percent from published lit. Not saying you can't trust people. I'm just saying that someone who went through the trouble of publishing info about 'setting up tanks', for instance, may have taken the time to cover all imprtant bases.