Question on Fish compatability

[piero]

Hi.

I currently have 1 sailfin, 1 blue tang, one yellow eyed kole tang, a pair of clowns, one 6-line wrasse and cleaner goby. Thinking of adding some more small fishes.

What can I consider???

Anyone that can suggest? Me running a 4 feet LPS tank...

[jacobus]

school on anthias ? will be very colourful and lively ... if not a large school of chromis .. i think tanks with small schools are great!

[RX_GAN]

Hey bro, six-line wrasse will pose a prob to ur addition of small fishes man.

Anthias is a good choice for reef tank and they are safe and good looking.

But the prob is that the six-line wrasse may haunt them until they died man...

Either u play with ur new small additional lives and hope they will survive, or u can try to catch the six-line wrasse and sell it away.

There are many other beautiful wrasses around the place and some are more peaceful.

Or else u can add the six-line as the last addition to ur tank.

adding in new fishes and hope they can survive is cruelty and is irresponsible.

I dun recommend this. and many ppl do it out of laziness.

There are also a lot of gobies which are very nice. u can try to add a shrimp goby.

If u can get a pistol shrimp, they are fascinating to watch.

Cardinal is also very nice addition as they will swim in a group.

If u dun have inverts, u can consider trevaily, small grouper or hawkfish.

And it depends on ur tank.

Trevaily is really beautiful in a school when they are small. The only problem is when they are big as they can grow to a very big size like those u see in underwater world.

hawkfish is also an interesting addition. Many reefers like to keep one in their tank too.

a small grouper is also nice but the same problem is that they grow very big and also they are very fierce and may caused a prob to future additions.

my 2cents worth here and good luck in ur additions.

Cheers. hope to see u sharing abt ur new addition here soon.

till then, have a nice fishy day.

[uws]

Agreed that 6-line wrasse may pose a problem... recently added a 6-line into my existing tank with a axil hogfish...

but next day i couldnt find hogfish... in the end found that it was wounded by this wrasse that keeps disturbing it... luckily i managed to fish out the hogfish and now its under medication to treat the wounds on its body... *sigh*.

Thought the wrasse is a peaceful fish.

Any question to ask bro is currently i also got a maroon clownfish which is also very territorial... how can i introduce anothe nemo type of fish?

Thx.

[RX_GAN]

hahaha...no prob. maroon clownfish ar ?

The size of it ? And wat nemo u adding in ?

Normally two diff. nemo will find it hard to live together unless u have a big tank which allow each to have their own territory.

But judging from ur 6-line situation, I doubt that as a possibility. Hhaha..

If there is anemone in ur tank, it will be even worse. Ur new nemo will most likely died.

If u intro a new nemo which is bigger, it will chase ur maroon away.

And if u intro a small nemo, it will be chased.

I gave away my maroon to the LFS in exchange for a damsel in the end.

And Maroon clown is the most aggressive clown around.

Hope that this can help.

[uws]

Agreed that with an anemone in the tank it will make matters worse... before the maroon was very peaceful till the day i got an anemone for it...

Now it becomes even more territorial...trying to guard its home...haha

I am trying to add either another maroon clownfish or the Ocellaris Clown.

But looks like its kinda difficult having two maroons in a tank.

[RX_GAN]

YUP. clownfish will guard their territory.

Dun recommend getting another maroon or clownfish.

Maroon is always a bad choice if u intend to have a few clowns.

I hope piero dun mind that the topic is a bit off..hahahaha...

And also good luck to you guys with the new addition.

I am looking to add in one PBT soon. hope to find one small or medium one. hahaha.

Dun like big fishes. going shopping tomolo.

[mansiz]

Yup agree too, don't get another clown. It will kill it. Even if the new addition is larger in size, there will still be a high risk that it will die.

Bro piero, since you are keeping a LPS tank, I would also recommend anthias as your new addtion fishes.

[Underwater]

l wld recommend reef safe wrasse...like fairy and flasher wrasses. But you may have to remove the six line wrasse first as it is super aggressive. l only manage to add new wrasses after i removed my sixline wrasse - a fish tt i will definitely avoid adding in future...got a hard time catching it also.