Types of fish for reef

[Reef lover24]

Hello all,


I am new to the reef hobby and am curious about what types of fish I can put in my tank. I have a 57g rimless with built in sump, using the refuigium set up in the sump. Keep temp around 79-80 degrees, and have 44lbs of live rock. I currently have a few blue angel damsels, scopas tang, blue hippo tang, and two clowns along with a snail. Been wanting to add a few new fish in the next few weeks but don't know what to add. Any recommendations?
Thanks.

 

[thirty6]

How big are your tangs?
Might need to relocate them to larger setup as they grow. You can add some sort of goby, blenny, cardinal fish, dotty back, doesn't sound like you have much inverts so a hawkfish could work too. Lots of options, depends really on your taste/interest
I would suggest a wrasse but they can jump out of rimless tank so not best option, although any fish can jump some are more prone to do so than others.

 

[Reef lover24]

My tangs are babies.. 2-3 inches max. I have a snail in there now and was thinking about adding other inverts as well. Just trying to gather some options right now. Was thinking some sort of wrasse as well but im not sure.

 

[Reef lover24]

Also was looking at angelfish.. However I know I can only get dwarf angels so idk which to get.

 

[thirty6]

i dont know size requirements for bellus angel, recently got one from live aquaria maybe 1.5" my tank is 150 so not sure if gallon size is issue for your setup i really like the reef safe angels

 

[Reef lover24]

Yeah I would have to ask before I brought anything. Thanks appreciate the information

 

[Cu455]

I will look into something to fill the bottom of the tank such as a goby or blenny. I think dwarf lions are pretty cool.

 

[Reef lover24]

I was going to get either a goby or blenny for the live rock and etc.. Dwarf lions are cool but aren't they aggressive? I don't want him killing off other fish.

 

[Reeftaker2013]

Maybe look for aurora goby ,dragon goby, or jawfish also cool they would burrow the sand and have his little house you could see them working really hard and thats cool to watch...
For inverts maybe you can browse for harlequin shrimps, fire shrimp , banded shrimp , or go with crabs like halloween crab, pompom crab, arrow crab , those guys are cool i think