Weigh in (Part Deaux) ....

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Ok... I've taken everyone's advice and thoughts and narrowed the field and added a couple new candidates. Any more thoughts? Again -- 112 gallon 30x30x30 SPS and Chalice tank. Who still needs to go so I can narrow the candidates.

Non-wrasse:

Regal Angelfish 10” Semi-Aggressive
Kole Tang 7” Semi-Agressive
Ruby Red Dragonet X3 (or 4) 3” Peaceful
Blue Reef Chromis (X5) for a little shoaling action 5” Peaceful
Bartlett Anthias x3 3.5” Semi-Aggressive
Borbonius anthias 6” Semi-Aggressive
Royal Gramma 3” Peaceful
Copperband Butterfly 8” Peaceful
Swissguard Basslet 3” Semi-Aggressive
Swalesi Basslet 3” Semi-Aggressive

Wrasses:

Flame wrasse 4” Peaceful
McCoskin's Flasher 3” Peaceful
Carpenter 3” Peaceful
Cleaner 5” Peaceful
Mystery 4” Semi-Aggressive
Exquisite fairy 5” Peaceful
Whipfin Fairy 3.5” Peaceful
Ruby Red Fairy 5” Peaceful
Blue Star Leopard (Male and Female) 5” Peaceful
Black Leopard 4” Peaceful
Melanurus 4” Peaceful
Rhomboidalis (Golden) 4.5” Peaceful

 

[tankguy]

Kole tang , red dragon , blue star leopard and rhomboid. Those are a few of my favorites

 

[Vhuang168]

I would pass on the regal and the dragonet.

It's gonna be hard to feed the dragonet with that many pod eating wrasses.

The regal MAY nip at sps and prevent PE during the day and possibly stunt growth.


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[Bruce Spiegelman]

Good call on those -- keep it coming!

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

My thought on the dragonets though was to get ORA's which eat processed food

 

[Vhuang168]

You will have to feed them separately or feed so heavily that they can manage to get bits that float to them. With that many fish in a 110, there won't be many scraps that will fall to them.


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[euod]

I would do them all with the exception of mystery and Royal gramma

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

You will have to feed them separately or feed so heavily that they can manage to get bits that float to them. With that many fish in a 110, there won't be many scraps that will fall to them.


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I'm not putting all those in! That's just the list that I'll be paring down from. However, you make a great point!

 

[euod]

Vhuang168 got me hooked on MacNeil and yellow assessors that I have quite a few now.

 

[Vhuang168]

Lol! They are awesome! Made the mistake of adding a Splendid Dottyback. Now I hardly see them.


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[scuzy]

Flames wrasses are one of my favorites

 

[Coral reefer]

No regal. Royal gramma yes. One of my favs.

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

I would do them all with the exception of mystery and Royal gramma

What's wrong with Mysteries?

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

As to the Regal I was hoping for one nice "show fish" in there as well. I know a lot of SPS tanks do have Regals. Is that mostly in larger, more established tanks with larger colonies (to spread around the polyp nipping?)

 

[scuzy]

I have never seen my regal nip any of my corals

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

P.S. This is what happens when your tank is 3 weeks overdue from being delivered. You spend your evenings working up fish wish lists.

 

[Coral reefer]

I have never seen my regal nip any of my corals

You seem to not care about non/sort of reef safe fish though. Most people don't like to take that risk

 

[Coral reefer]

I have not seen my regal nip any of my corals yet

Just kidding...kind of. I hope it stays safe for you.

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

I've added one to my list!

 

[euod]

What's wrong with Mysteries?

I tend to have bad luck getting mean mystery wrasses and royal gramma and therefore I just stay away from them. They are beautiful fish as well as six lines but not worth the headache.