48x24x24 reef safe "big" fish

[Cloran]

Need a couple ideas for some bigger fish for a 48x24x24 tank. Preferably atleast 2 or 3 of them. Maybe even a harem of some sort?

[Cloran]

Nobody?

[marinelife]

hmm, did not even see this thread.
Anthias are always great, I love mine (Thanks Nick) and will get more when the new tank is up and running.

[youngtimothy]

I have a 48x18x26 and the big fish I have are, 5" yellow tang and a 5" clown fairy wrasse. I would like to get a mystery wrasse also.

[Cloran]

how many anthias could you put in it? Are they pretty peaceful? I'm gonna have a little school of Chromis, and bangai's. I'm gonna have alot of Gobies

[titanredmg]

lemon peel mimic tang,naso tang,tennenti surgeonfish. check out http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/ they have a great selection to look at with a lot of good info.

[satch12]

you might be able to get away with three anthias in there, no way would i put any tang other than a tomini tang in there, copperband butterflys are cool but they are hit or miss on being reefsafe and are real finicky eaters mostly because they ship poorly. what kind of gobies do you plan on having, unless they are like blue neon gobies i wouldnt put any more than two in there if that, they are supper territorial you might get lucky with two and hope they set up homes at the two opposite ends of the tank. If you want "bigger" reef safe fish I would look into some of the butterfly fish.

[Cloran]

I had 2 clowns gobies in my 20g. Almost all the butterfly's I've seen aren't reef safe

[marinelife]

For butterflyfish you need to see what they eat and do not have that coral and you will be fine.

[satch12]

clown gobies would be ok but when you get into shrimp gobies/sand sifting gobies more than one is not a real good idea.

with the butterflies it is hit or miss with them but if you read articles about them a lot of people have successfuly kept a number of butterflies in reef tanks.