Well, I LOVE inverts, LPS, and some SPS. I have to admit, the whole naming of corals with limited edition (how the crap can anything that grows biologically be a limited edition) is just ridiculous to me (but I am also in hobbies (birdwatching, herping, tarantulas) where identifying to species is important. I personally love the challenge of trying to ID to species and not some name that will help me sell a frag for more money.

I also love varied color hermits. Many people decry them and what they eat, I personally think it is because they WAY overstock and then the hermits resort to eating things they don't normally bother. I have never had a problem with a hermit eating anything I didn't want it to. They will consume the turbos that flip upside down and can't right themselves, but then again that is what you get for needing me to right you!!

I will probably only have about 20 or so snails (again - I think we WAY overstock on cleanup crews - learned a lot from Anthony Caflo).

So, enough ranting, here are some ideas:

1.) RBTA - (I love liveaquaria's stock) hopefully hosting a pair of black and white ocellaris
2.) Pair of Bellus' Angels
3.) Two-spot Bimacullatus Blenny and/or Starry Blenny/Linear Blenny (will it be a problem in tank this size for two different blennies?)
4.) Fairy Wrasses/Flasher Wrasses
5.) Haliocheres Wrasses (love the Leopards)
6.) After Tank has aged (banded pipefish pair)
7.) Two or three tangs (several I like)
8.) I really like Bluethroat and Pinktail Triggers

Those are the ideas I have now, I really enjoy watching liveaquaria to see what unique fish they get in.

Of course, the obligate clams of which there are four color patterns I love:
1.) Black and White - yea, who doesn't and who can afford it
2.) Brown and Gold Teardrop Maxima
3.) The light blue mantle with dark blue dots around the edge.
4.) The slightly bluish-gray with dark blue dots around the edge (like at River City's nano on counter).



Corals:
I love scoly's, favias, diplostrea, montastrea, encrusting monti's, zoa's, lobo's, and those acro's with color that contrast nicely. I like things you don't see in EVERY store. Color combinations (despite my wife claiming I only like red and greens). I also like the challenge of placing a coral the same way in my tank as it would be found in nature. Borneman's book on corals is awesome for this information. I hate seeing a scoly on the top of some rock wall. You would never see that in the wild.

I already have a blue banded coral shrimp that will go in my frag area so I can actually see him from time to time. The display will hopefully have a nice colorful linkia or fromia starfish, a colorfull brittle star, several cleaner shrimp (I love fire but when do you get to see them - may put in my crypic fuge), some of the colorful hermits like blue-banded and halloween which I already have.


Those are some of my thoughts right now.

Lee