BOBS BIG DEBATE

[BeelzeBob]

i have an 18 gallon nano reef.

it currently houses;

1 fire fish
1skunk cleanr
1 peppermint
and BANE, the manits.


bane is fat, and well behaved and everybody been in ther goin on 14 months.

i also, have a decent lil selection of coral.

i have too many pods. i say too many because that population includes the big nasties that irritate my zoos, and apparently, eat um.

Now my firefish, hes my homeboy. i do feel however, that hes a total wuss.

his happiness is far more important to me that anything other than Bane (Mr Mantis)

sooooooooooooooooo

i am ponderin this guy because i was lookin for a small fish, that hang out in the water colomn, is a total podinator, and wont terrorize my fire fish.

is this my Boy, fish people? (im an invert guy)

Midget wrasse, Pseudocheilinops ataenia

http://www.reefermadness.us/FishPag...ops_ataenia.htm

my concerns are, bio-load, how nice he is to mr fire fish, and if he'll really stay that small?

andbody got one?

 

[mandy21]

the directory wasn't working for me, I went from reefermadness.com and found him from there. i have nothing to add other than I don't think I've seen that fish before. Looks like a crazy little guy in the pics I managed to find in a search.

That being said, I keep reading that while a lot of wrasses stay small, there are non suited to the nano reef due to how much they swim. Right now after my tank catasrophe, I only have one radiant wrasse in my 75g which is around 3 inches long. He's master of the entire 75 gallons.

 

[BeelzeBob]

nice. **** mandy, you're on fire today.

thats exactly the type of answer im lookin for, thanks!

(better capitolize yer lil user title)

 

[joander123]

hmmm trying to think of a smaller suitable fish that might chow down on some pods for you...i tend to agree with mandy... not to say that a six line or small wrasse is out of the picture either though.

I don't know, this is kind of a tough one. Usually with an abundance of pods i would recommend either a wrasse or a mandarin, but since its a nano those are both kind of weak fits.

My next thought would be a blenny, and i would say a blenny would work good for you, except that they are bottom dwellers... and so is bane.

I'll have to get back to you on this one lol.

 

[salty420]

i too am unfamiliar with that wrasse but agree that wrasses in general are pretty active swimmers and can be little ****s too... and like you said firefish are pretty much wussies so that prolly wouldn't work out...