What are good pairs of salt water fish?

Question

ok, I have a 23-25 gallon tank,(right now its just the plain old tank, but I am setting it up and getting stuff for it in September). this is my first tank, I am still doing research to be really ready when its set up, anyway though I was wondering what pretty, fairly cheap, interesting fish that would do well in this tank but also together. I don't want huge long lists of every fish you can think of that are good for beginners I have already looked up a ton of those, just between 4 or 7 fish that would do well in the tank AND together. I love color and oddities interest me so bright and/or strange looking fish would be great. also if you suggest a group of fish could you also tell me what rock/plants would be needed for the fish?I will look them up on my own after I get some names but any info you have would still be nice, thank you!

by the way I don't want any mating to happen.

Answer 1

I would add as a note to be better understood. It's not that Marine tanks are any harder than freshwater tanks, just that they are unforgiving of mistakes when the water volume is too low unlike freshwater tanks. Marine Reefs are among the most stable environments in the world. The fish, invertebrate life, and algae's have evolved over time to those stable conditions. A fish plucked by a collector on a reef in Fiji and shipped thousands of miles away into a home aquarium that is all of a sudden forced to cope with fluctuations in temperature, salinity, pH, changes in Dissolved Oxygen, etc, etc will not have as easy of a time adjusting to those changes.

Again, I'm not discouraging you from starting a marine aquarium, in fact I encourage it. Once you get the salt in your veins it's hard to go back to freshwater. It's just that it would be better to simply start with a much larger tank so that your can learn along the way with a bit of breathing room.

Answer 2

Hey Loki,

Butterflyfishes and Angelfishes feeds off of coral polyps and live rocks, they tend to pick on them because that is their diets, so if you want a reef or live rocks, I don't recommend getting these species, however, if you can get them to eat flakes and brine shrimp, you shouldn't have any problems. A Koran Angelfish is very unique, it is black white and blue with circular design on it's body. It's unique due to it's design pattern, you can feed him flakes such as spirulina or mixing it up with brine shrimp flakes.

Like I described earlier, a Dragon wrasse is very unique to have, mines leaves my percula clownfishes alone, so you don't have to worry about that.

The Harlequin tusk is a very beautiful fish, it's part of the wrasse family, however, you should not have any other wrasses in the tank with this fish, because this fish is aggressive and may kill other wrasses.

I love the powder blue tang, he's personally one of my favorites, but he can get tempermental.

Ok enough with that, for your tank, I would recommend 2 percula clownfishes, which you don't need an anemone, I would recommend 4 green chromis, they do better in a group, and a powder blue tang. You can add a Dragon wrasse to top it off.

Anyways, I hope that this helps, Good Luck Loki...... Gots to go work now. email me if you have any more questions

Answer 3

Unfortunately such a small tank cant take a lot of fish. I would suggest 2 clown fish. (Check for ones that will be compatible with the type of anemone you choose).

A cleaner wrasse is helpful to control parasites.

A sand goby will move the sand about.

2-3 hermit crabs help clean the tank.

One or 2 shrimps helps cleaning.

A clam looks great

Please go slow when adding fish or corals or in-vertebrae.

"The only thing you can do fast with a marine tank is crash it"