coolest non-reefsafe fish?

[MandarinFish]

I have a 135 FOWLR with:
* yellow tang
* hepatus tang
* dogface puffer
* 2 little paddlefin wrasses
* velvet damsel
* maroon clown

Most of these are juveniles currently.

I am interested in adding maybe a couple more really attractive fish, without maxing out my bioload and all the subsequent hassles (my skimmer is a PM H.O.T. 1). Preferably non-reef safe, since I also have a reef tank.

I was thinking of a yellowhead wrasse, or maybe a humuhumu trigger.

Any other suggestions?

 

[King Jason]

I hear the tang polices sirens already.

 

[Enzo]

Humu Humu are definately awesome fish. They aren't to aggresiive, well atleast mine isn't. They are very cool. They take about a month to get use to your tank but after that you can like touch them if you want when you feed them. I sometimes push mine away because he takes all the food from some of my slower fish, but he doesn't mind, doesn't even get mad.
John

 

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't trust a huma. I read that they sometimes go beserk suddenly and kill everything in the tank, after they had been in your tank for a while. Well, I bought one anyway, (say dumbass), and sure enough, bout 4 months latter he started picking off the otherfish one by one. A red lipped blennie, a five line wrass, and a niger trigger, all wasted. Then I added a lionfish, which he did not kill. They say sometimes a huma will still dart in and bite at the slow moving lionfish. I finally got rid of both. Now I have a large snowflake (was already in there), an ordchid dottyback, a blue accessor, and a red firefish. A nice peacefull community. (the tank is only a 37G, so I can't put much else in there)

HTH

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Well if you're dumb it's not becaue you got a huma huma. It's because of the fish you put in with it! Blennies? Five lined wrasse!? Another trigger!!? Huma humas mix great with groupers, lionfish, eels, puffers and larger angels. I've been keeping them for years with no problems.
Regards
Jim

 

[danmhippo]

I would go with the trigger. Or you can consider an eel.

 

[Anonymous]

Get a Snowflake Eel but make sure you have a secure tank so he can not get out. :twisted:

 

[Enzo]

I dodge the sudden outbursts of aggresiveness by rearanging my rocks every soo months, that way everyone becomes less territorial and once they have really established them I change the rocks...It has worked so far....

 

[Anonymous]

JimM said:

Well if you're dumb it's not becaue you got a huma huma. It's because of the fish you put in with it! Blennies? Five lined wrasse!? Another trigger!!? Huma humas mix great with groupers, lionfish, eels, puffers and larger angels. I've been keeping them for years with no problems

I was a newbie when I purchased these fish. I am certainly no expert on aggressive fish. I am pretty much just sticking to reef fish from now on and was only speaking of MY experience with huma's FWIW.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to talk my wife into a golden puffer, but they are always large adults, I've never seen a young one at the lfs's, she prefers raising them from juvinal or young adult.

She's doing a 220g FOLR later this year, I suspect she will have a large lion, a clown trigger, and a majestic, that's what we had in her old tank, probably a purple tang too, I was allready told I'm not allowed to buy a purple tang for the reeftank, although they are reefsafe, very nice fish.

 

[Leopardshark]

how about a clown trigger?? or a harlequin tusk???

 

[Leopardshark]

how about a clown trigger?? or a harlequin tusk???

 

[Anonymous]

I dodge the sudden outbursts of aggresiveness by rearanging my rocks every soo months, that way everyone becomes less territorial and once they have really established them I change the rocks...It has worked so far....

I did that once after about 6 years of peace in my African Tank............they killed each other off in new disputes...don't do it!

 

[Freedom75@work]

Manadrin


I have a reef and I have a Hawain pink tail trigger in it. and she has become my favorite fish. she eats out of my hand and is waiting for me at the front of the tank every day when I get home. very personable. she gets along with all my fish even the foxface. I highly recommend one of these guys. I have several different shrimp and she never messes with them.

John Wray

 

[chromeweasel]

I have a 135 FOWLR with:
* yellow tang
* hepatus tang
* dogface puffer
* 2 little paddlefin wrasses
* velvet damsel
* maroon clown

Most of these are juveniles currently.

I am interested in adding maybe a couple more really attractive fish, without maxing out my bioload and all the subsequent hassles (my skimmer is a PM H.O.T. 1). Preferably non-reef safe, since I also have a reef tank.

I was thinking of a yellowhead wrasse, or maybe a humuhumu trigger.

Any other suggestions?

How about a school of blue-green chromis? You could also go with a harem of flasher wrasses. That would finish stocking you tank for good.

 

[Mogo]

Try a Lunare Wrasse. Very active and inquisitive without being nasty. The "pet dog" of my tank. Still trying to get him to roll over on command though.

 

[mountainbiker619]

twin spot wrasse is a good suggestion. Also is a snowflake eel. I so miss my snowflake, it was such a character and great to watch play.

 

[CAT]

I love the butterflies. The threadfin is pretty and relatively easy to keep. The harlequin tusks are nice too.

 

[MandarinFish]

I thought tusks were reef safe. Aren't they?

Tell me... flasher wrasses; are they the species Paracheilinus filamentosus
or Paracheilinus carpenteri ?

Marine Center has them listed as the former, LiveAquaria.com the latter.

They're reef safe too, though, I think.

 

[Bron-yr-aur]

My favs...
clown, niger, undulatus triggers
any large puffer makes a great addition
cinnamon gold stripe clown
volitan
green bird wrasse
mineatus grouper are beautiful but hide to much