i have a 100 gallon aquarium. empty. what saltwater fish can i keep in it?
by Aquaboy on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | 3 Comments
i want to start a reef tank and i wanted to know what fish can be kept together.
can anything be kept with the beautiful mandarin fish?
or the lion fish?
can they be kept together?
if not then i would like a list of compatible fish and how many of each i could keep in 100 gallons of saltwater. please include scavengers if possible and some anemones =] thankyou
julian your tank is beautiful
almost any tangs
royal gramma
clown gobies
clowns
damsels, maybe they tend to get very territorial
firefish
reef safe wrasse such as the six line wrasse
not many angels or butterfly fish, though if you are thinking of going reef. But if you aren’t the fish only tanks are beautiful also.
And im sure you already know but you have to cycle your tank for a few months before you put anything in it or you will have ammonia spikes and what not and everything will die within a short period of time
I have a 90 gallon reef tank.
You can choose to have aggressive fish (lionfish, sharks, eels etc.)
Or you can get more calm fish (clownfish, tangs, anthias, blennies, gobies,angels etc.)
I personally focus more on my corals that i put into my tank, rather than my fish.
My tank has:
1 clownfish
1 Blue tang
1 royal gramma
1 tiger goby
1 algae blenny
1 six lined wrasse
all these fish get along great
Warnings:
Tangs are very territorial, and tend to fight with other tangs.
Angels have the tendancy to nip on corals.
Check out my tank on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQiBWzthHg0
I’d make that tank a nice reef tank if I had that tank. For a reef tank, I’d put slipper corals, clownfish, and starfish. Maybe some green brain corals or candy cane corals. Bubble anemones are also a good . Live rock is a must. I’d also put green or brown clown gobies. 1 or two sally lightfoot crabs, feather dusters, and blennies. For the final touch, a crocea clam.
http://www.petco.com/product/108629/Slipper-Coral.aspx
http://www.petco.com/product/101760/Blue-Leg-Hermit-Crab.aspx
http://www.petco.com/product/101424/Feather-Duster.aspx?CoreCat=certona-_-ProductList__3-_-Feather%20Duster-101424
http://www.petco.com/product/101777/Green-Brain-Coral.aspx
http://www.petco.com/product/101756/Bicolor-Blenny.aspx?CoreCat=LN_Shopping_LiveFishandRock_SaltwaterFish
http://www.petco.com/product/107631/Brown-Clown-Goby.aspx?CoreCat=LN_Shopping_LiveFishandRock_SaltwaterFish
http://www.petco.com/product/108806/Freckled-Hawkfish.aspx?CoreCat=LN_Shopping_LiveFishandRock_SaltwaterFish
http://www.petco.com/product/108932/Wartskin-Angler.aspx?CoreCat=LN_Shopping_LiveFishandRock_SaltwaterFish
http://www.petco.com/product/101788/Ocellaris-Clownfish.aspx?CoreCat=LN_Shopping_LiveFishandRock_SaltwaterFishhttp://www.petco.com/product/101788/Ocellaris-Clownfish.aspx?CoreCat=LN_Shopping_LiveFishandRock_SaltwaterFish
Hope I helped