Fish List?

[jar05g]

Hello all. I have a 30 gallon setup with about 20 lbs of LR. Right now, I have a yellow-tailed blue damsel, and a chromis damsel. My showpiece fish is a yellow tang. I know the tank's a little small, but I also bought him small. Since I've had him, I've a clown and a basslett...both have been beaten up by the tang, and are no longer with me. I'm going home for the Thanksgiving Holidays, but when I get back, I plan on taking the tang back to my LFS. I would only have to two damsels. Any suggestions of what I could buy? I would like to have as many fish as possible...maybe something exciting and what not. Thanks!!

[demonsp]

Any new non aggresive fish will have problems adjusting with the tang and damsels. Turn lights off whene adding new stock to help.
The chalk bass is a great fish.
Sailfin tang great.
Some type of trigger great addition.

In such a small tank stay with small non or semi aggressive fish .

[jar05g]

Ok. They had a Sailfin Tang there the other day, but I didn't buy him because I remember reading about not having an even number of Tangs in a tank. So I didn't buy him. I would like to buy a Bi-Color Angel, but I've heard they might nip at my soft corals.

[steven_dean17]

IMO, no triggers, tangs, or angles. I don't know anything about the chalk bass. A Goby of some kind maybe.

[demonsp]

Ok that came across wrong. The chalk bass great fish. The other two were tests. I was hopeing you would go research them to see there needs from tank size to feeding. Look in here to get some info on stcok.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/categ.cfm?pcatid=597

[demonsp]

Man research the bass. Hes my favorite fish . Small non agressive and smart. Cool addtion to any reef tank.

[Drock169]

Can anyone verify the even number of tangs as a bad thing, i was thinking a hippo tang and sailfin should be fine

[demonsp]

Look here.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=43

[cmoseasaurus]

Remember, its a 30 gallon tank! This thing is too small for any tang, yellow/purple/blue/sailfin. I have a 75 gallon, 48" tank and I find it almost too small for my yellow tang, and he's getting to be 5" long

[Drock169]

I dont see anything there that says even numbers are bad, at least for sailfin or blue. It just says can be aggressive at times and to introduce at once

[jar05g]

Yeah...I think I'll go with the small, non-aggressive. Because my tank is so small, I would rather have more smaller fish than one big fish. I loved the Royal Gramma (Fairy Basslet) that I had. It really caught people's attention. I'll have to look into that bass. Once I get out of this dorm room...I'm going to have to upgrade.

[DrBegalke]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11226844#post11226844 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Drock169
Can anyone verify the even number of tangs as a bad thing, i was thinking a hippo tang and sailfin should be fine

In a 30g, 1 or more tangs is a bad thing.