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Hi all, I just created the Scuba Site called www.scubamazing.com and I decided that I need a marine aquarium mascot and fish for it. So I'm asking for your suggestions on what would be good, because I would like to have on or two featured "fish friends" that I show.

I've got a 60 gallon tank that right now is just full of guppies having babies. I think it would be healthy for my fish to have live food, and I'd like to put in a few fish that would eat the guppies, and then some fish that could live with the fish who eat guppies.

Please let me know some ideas on how to start this. Also if you're a scuba diver as well, please check out my site. Or if you have some good shots of your fish that you'd like to share and allow me to post on my site, please email me the photos at request@scubamazing.net

Thanks everyone, I look forward to building this mascot tank with you all.
 
Most people I talk to are instantly drawn to the Flame Angel or the Royal Gramma because of their bright colors.
 
Those are both beautiful fish, but the Flame Angel requires perfect water quality, an established tank, and the proper diet. The Gramma would be a good choice, and would leave the options pretty open to add more fish.

A snowflake eel would be a striking inhabitant for that size tank and would readily eat the guppies (and any other small fish). A full grown Gramma would probably be OK with a snowflake.

Hawkfish, like the Flame or Longnose, are personable fish and would also eat the guppies.

There are many options and combinations that you could have for your tank, so what you need to do is browse several online resources like you are doing and find fish that are compatable and whose needs you can meet.
 
I am confused, Guppies are Freshwater! You want to put them in saltwater or are you looking to put a saltwater fish in freshwater?? Either way, saltwater fish should NOT eat freshwater fish!!
 
Either way, saltwater fish should NOT eat freshwater fish!!
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Can someone clarify this for me? I've heard it is actually good to feed them freshwater fish, because the transfer if disease is a lot less likely? Am I incorrect?
 
The odds of transfering a disease or parasite is reduced, but the FW fish do not meet the nutritional needs of the SW fish at all. FW fish are not appropriate food for SW fish.
 
SW fish should only eat other SW fish, Guppies and Goldfish are not good for any SW fish because they have a high amount of fatty acids that SW fish have a hard time processing, it eventually causes a SW fish to have liver failure.


Also live food is not always a good thing to use, as it gets to be expensive and alot of preditory fish can be trained to take frozen or copped foods (like silver sides or other Marine bait fish) as long as it thinks its alive.
 
Guppies and Goldfish are not good for any SW fish because they have a high amount of fatty acids that SW fish have a hard time processing, it eventually causes a SW fish to have liver failure.
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Wow, I had no idea on that one. Guess this thread got a little off subject. In spite of not being able to use the guppies, does anyone else have any ideas for some mascot fish that they think would be good to use as I set up my mascot tank for The Scuba Site: www.scubamazing.com?

thanks for all your input I think its helped me start out on the right foot for sure!
 
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