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mdalby 
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Posted: June 21 2014 at 7:34pm |
After my burn in period of a few weeks, what are some good colorful fun fish for a 35 gallon tank?
I can have 6-8 fish in this size tank?
Everyone has a clown so I will have one or two of those. I am sure a dottyback or two. I will have a shrimp and starfish and some snails.
Any other fish recommendations?
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Posted: June 21 2014 at 8:16pm |
From my understanding you should only keep one dottyback in a tank at a time.
As far as another recommendation, i enjoyed keeping a Flame Angel in my tank but some angels can eat coral and some wont.
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Posted: June 21 2014 at 9:01pm |
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Another angles that you can have are larmatck angel sorry about the spelling. Their also a lot of cool gobys that do great in a 30 gallon tank. Some fun fish to watch are red hawks fish. Also coral beautys do great to.
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Posted: June 21 2014 at 10:24pm |
 mdalby wrote:
After my burn in period of a few weeks, what are some good colorful fun fish for a 35 gallon tank?
I can have 6-8 fish in this size tank?
Everyone has a clown so I will have one or two of those. I am sure a dottyback or two. I will have a shrimp and starfish and some snails.
Any other fish recommendations? |
How about a Midas Blenny (Yellow), Two orange clownfish, an Orchid Dottyback, and some sort of goby or blenny. Jawfish are great too if you have the sandbed for them.
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Posted: June 21 2014 at 11:19pm |
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Don't dottybacks kill shrimp? You might want to check that out before you get them. I have a little clown goby in my tank and he's an awesome fish. Bright yellow spot with lots of personality and movement as he swims from perch to perch.
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 9:31am |
Small gobies and blennies would be ideal. May be wise to visit a few stores, write down what you really want, and ask specifically about them. Hard to say "angelfish would be good" thinking of something like a small pygmy and then have you end up buying a large emperor. But small substrate and rock loving fish are usually well suited for tank that size.
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 1:39pm |
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How about royal gramma, blenny, gobys, firefish. Maybe a darwf angel?
Cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp
What type of starfish are you thinking about?
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 4:22pm |
mdalby wrote:
After my burn in period of a few weeks... |
This is probably the #1 mistake made by new hobbyists. We were all new hobbyists at one point. The way to set up a reef aquarium is as different as each person, but one thing we all can agree upon is that going faster than the growth of the biofiltration will lead to trouble. This is the reason for using as much of the Live components as possible and adding animals only as fast as the biofiltration can handle. Coral and algae filter the water. Fish pollute the water. I have to say that your posts and questions here on the forum indicate that you are thoughtful and caring for the animals you plan to make your pets. That's awesome.  Aloha 
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 4:45pm |
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Mark he is buying an established tank so after a few weeks he should be good in my opinion to add new stuff grated don't add a ton of fish at one time go slowly.
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 5:07pm |
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Thanks Jackie.
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Posted: June 23 2014 at 3:18pm |
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Dottybacks are mean fish. I have an orchid dottyback (suppose to better not as mean as the strawberry ). Beautiful fish! Other than snails and a conch he has attacked everything else. Shrimp don't stand chance. If you do decide go for it. Make sure its the last one so he doesn't establish territory. Still I would say is a risk. Gobies, blennies good place to start.Pygmy wrasses come to mind. Nano tanks can run different personalities in fish due space or territories.
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Posted: June 23 2014 at 4:51pm |
I once started a 55 gallon first week put in a panther grouper, trigger, 4 green chromis and bangaii cardinal, only power heads, no filter no live sand or live rock, no water from an established tank. anyway good fish fora 35 caribbean sailfin blenny green banded gobies are always fun watchman goby and shrimp(if you don't care if they MOVE the dirt to thei rliking and not yours) Green spotted puffer fish(cheap awesome fish from wallyworld)
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Posted: June 23 2014 at 5:02pm |
Definitely get a shark. 
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Posted: June 23 2014 at 6:22pm |
DMower wrote:
Definitely get a shark. |
And once it gets too big for your tank, you can always pay me to take it off your hands, would love a shark for my saltwater pond
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Posted: June 23 2014 at 8:55pm |
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Columbian shark also knows as silver tip catfish
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Posted: June 23 2014 at 9:14pm |
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I really like my 6 line wrasse a lot of fun to watch him dart around the tank!
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Posted: June 24 2014 at 3:23pm |
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Two of my favorite fish for a smaller tank is the possum wrasse and the cherub angel.
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Posted: July 01 2014 at 7:23pm |
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I've always loved carpenter wrasse, fire shrimp, arrowhead crabs. emerald crabs
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