Help me pick a fish

[PeeperKeeper]

What do you already have in your tank? A firefish?

[hobogato]

a couple that i would reccommend - sixline wrasse, candy hogfish

[hoho19]

Pretty wasn't on your list so I recommend Mollies...You buy them cheep and then aclimatize them to SW. Easy and they are always active and don't pick on anything and eat flake food.

[discuspro]

Pretty was suppose to be on the list, but I forgot. At the moment I have no fish at all. Sixline wrasses are one of my favorites but I'm concerned it will pick and pick and pick on my christmas tree worms and clam until they die, otherwise if someone hasn't seen them attack these creatures I will get one.

The other kind of fish I'm interested in is a Copperband Butterfly. I've got some aiptasia but again the copperband butterfly might pick on these creatures (clam and worms).

The copperband I might be able to take out if it gets too aggresive to my inverts but the sixline would be tricky, I think, to catch if I ever need to.

GaryP, don't you have a copperband butterfly? If so what kind of inverts do you have and does it ever bother anything in particular? What have you got the butterfly trained to eat?

[hobogato]

i have a six line in my tank with tons of feather dusters and several clams. i do have a coulple of the same "feather dusters" as the ones on chrismas tree rocks, and the six line doesnt touch any of them. the copperband on the other hand will eat feather dusters, so i would not trust one with a christmas tree rock.

[akm]

I suggest a hawkfish, I have one and it's the coolest and most active fish I have. But some of them will eat any small shrimp, mine has eaten 3-4.

[discuspro]

I have also thought of a hawkfish, never had em before but look very cool.

Hobogato, quick question: what do you feed your sixline? How big was it when you got it and how big is it now?

One other question for anyone, I was reading liveaquaria.com notes on sixlines and it says they eat "commensal flatworms." What are those? Surely not the nuisance flatworms, that would be a miracle!

Here's a link to that note page:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...cfm?pCatId=375

[discuspro]

Okay, here is the fruit of our labor (I got the sixline), I caught him making his bed right after lights out: