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Ok everyone, I need your help. I am experienced in saltwater, familiar with a great many of the saltwater fishes available on the open market and a few oddballs to go with them...
My problem is that I have too many favorites, and now have a 29 gallon biocube cycling in my fish room and I'm not sure what to put in it.
Like someone else we know around here, I am a goby freak, so a goby is a must. Knowing how many shrimp gobys there are, and other small ones, all of their wonderful points and all of the drawbacks, I am still unable to decide which one to add. The species I am leaning towards at present are the red head goby, the yasahashi, the randalli, and the twin spot. There are a few others I am considering adding to that list. (my real dream is to be able to afford to run this chiller I have here, and to set a tank up with coldwater and to get a catalina goby and a tank full of strawberry anemones... but that will be a few yrs yet, finances won't allow it)
The above named gobys would all be considered affordable right now, which is what earned them a place on "the list".
Can anyone add something unique and colorful to that list for me? Something I am forgetting that falls into those categories...?
My next question then is once I have my list, knowing most everything on it is available to me with a matter of a phone call.... how do I choose? I can only have 1, I love them all, have had them all... how would you choose?
Let's move on to starfish... again I can't keep the ones I really want because this tank won't accommodate them. Things like purple and blue linkias would be my first choice if I could. The most logical for this tank would be a brittle star, but I seldom see any of them that really appeals to me. I have 20 - 25 lbs of live rock, so there isn't room for sand sifting stars. I have considered tile stars, but they are sooooo sensitive, I don't think I want to spend that kind of money for that kind of risk. The feather stars that I adore so much will be going into the 65 when it gets set up come this summer. Ideas please? Most serpent stars get too big for 29 gallons, and the 65 won't have stars other than the feathers... so I won't have a larger tank later to move this stuff to.
Fish fish fish... lol, how do we choose them? I have a passion for each and every one of them. I keep making lists of what will fit and what will work with a starfish, goby, and lots of corals, and I keep finding things I already like and want, that can't go together... how does anyone make choices like this?
Please, I want everyone's input on this! Tell me how you would choose and make any suggestions for species that you would think to add. Clown fish will wait for the 65, so please... no clowns this time, lol.
I desperately want another anemone, but I am mostly restricted to rock anemones because of size and corals I will be getting soon. There will be leather corals, pipe organ, possibly mushrooms, star polyps, and possibly a hammer coral. I'm also expecting to add a few feather dusters at some point. There will be at least 1 emerald crab, more likely 2 - 3, possibly an anemone shrimp (with the rock anemone), and snails. I am shooting for astrea, margarita, and bumble bee snails to start, maybe a small turbo I can put in til the 65 gets set up later so I can move it then.
Shrimps? Suggestions? I like them all, anemone shrimp is only 1 option, not a must have if someone can think of something better. I like colorful, peaceful, inexpensive (if there is such a thing) and small. A small pistol shrimp species might be a possibility depending on availability.
Its in your hands now... I have this tank almost ready to go and quarantine ready, corals will start arriving over the next few wks. (frags from friends and office buddies hubby works with) I know I preach patience, and I am not expecting to dump everything in at once, I know the ropes, but I am in a hurry to plan it so I can start finding the stuff I want. I have access to a few wholesalers, so most of what is being found in stores around the country I have available to me, and then some.
Suggest away... I'm listening...
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