[dori9941]

I'm looking at a green mandarin, purple fire fish goby, six lined wrasse. maybe a royal gramma basslet.
these fish say use cation with each other so, do any of you have these and any combination? what size tank? ( territory reasons)
which fish goes after the others or if there is any one with an opinion on these fish. do ant eat tube worms I know the six line wrasse eat some pests.

[ljv]

At one time I had almost the same combination in my 125G reef tank. I had a green mandarin, two firefish (non-purple), a six line wrasse and a royal gramma. They all seemed to get along just fine, however I did have a large tank (6 ft long) which may have helped. They never even nipped at each other. Maybe I was lucky.

I never noticed any of them eating tube worms. The green mandarin was always sucking at the holes in the LR but not necessarily at tube worms. I always had a bunch of tube worms on my LR. If the mandarin ate them they would have been all gone.

One warning. The mandarin will most likely not eat anything that you offer it. I had mine eat a frozen mysis shrimp ONCE. No flakes, pellets, other fron foods at all. The rest of the time it ate critters out of the live rock (not necessarily a good thing). I had 100+ pounds and it eventually starved. They are beautiful but tough to keep. Maybe he would have made it if I had waited until the tank was more mature or if I had a refugium.

[dori9941]

that sum all that.
Tank size very is important, they can live together but they need their own yards, lol.
i always cycle my tank with live rock, live sand and 6 months of dreaming time. This method pays off. We had the red scooter blenny and he eats like the green mandarin, without live rock blennys don't do well from what I've read.
I miss him sleeping in the sand with just his eyes pooping out.
we will get him but my husbands heart will crush when I will only
introduce him for a while.
what kind of clown breeds easy, just to know?

i have never hod algae problems so i have 3 turbo snails, a red legged hermit (in my photos), and an emerald crab ( he keeps my bubble alea at bay small crew but i do water mant. 3 times a week. ItI think thak cuts out stress and keeps a great ph.

This fish will be in there and invert will be replaced
2 true per clowns
2 skunk shrimp
1 Coral Banded shrimp
1 red or purple scooter blenny
3 turbo snails
1 red legged hermit


Do i need a bigger cleaner crew, I feel the tank can run awhile.
I've never had a real problem, clarity and labs are great. I"ll be moving to hazel green in the country and will have more room. A house finally. We all know what more room means

I might get a horse shoe crab. The move will be in 2 months. If they let us move earlier cause of our lease. They are great managers here. Then I will start over

[michelle's ocean fantasy]

Hahaha- That made me laugh- because I just noticed the other day when I got up (like 2 in the morning, got a pepsi, sat in front of my tank)- do that when I can't sleep---- anyway- I looked and laughed at my tank- the scooters (2) red tipped tails, were burying themselves 'in' the sand, only to leave their eyes and their fins- they looked like those fake alligators people put on their lawns! Too cute!
About the mandarins, mine ate frozen brine along with the tank at feeding times, ate from the rocks all day long, and saw him nibble at the pellets (spectrum variety)
I was planning on getting more copepods (found them only, cheap) when my lunar wrasse had 'stressed him out' I guess, I am not sure what happened to him. He didn't jump out, no body found.........still a mystery...... but he did eat very well- the LFS said that was rare.

[michelle's ocean fantasy]

sorry- it is late, meant to say 'found them online cheap' nite!

[Marine1]

I'd stay away from the mandarin - they will eventually starve to death. The only way I would buy a mandarin is if I had a 100 gal tank or more and a fuge to grow copepods, or if I saw it eat pellets or mysis shrimp at the LFS. The others should be ok for a 55 gal. The basslet and six line are hit or miss as far as temperament.

[dori9941]

thanks. i miss seeing them hide in the sand. it is neat.