Anyone want to weight in on fish selection for a frag tank. 25 gallon lagoon. Anyone ever put a small dwarf lionfish in? 
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sfsuphysics
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6 line wrasse would be good, keeps an eye out for nasty critters, and out of wrasses isn't really known as a jumper. Unfortunately there are no small algae eating fish for a 25g tank.
That said I wouldn't put any fish in it if it's just a frag tank, fish means food, food means waste, and that's that much more cleaning you need to do, unless it's tied into your main system, then go balls to the wall!
That said I wouldn't put any fish in it if it's just a frag tank, fish means food, food means waste, and that's that much more cleaning you need to do, unless it's tied into your main system, then go balls to the wall!
Coral reefer
Past President
Corals use fish waste as food, six line not a bad choice. If ties to main system they have access to fish waste, but if not then yeah get a fish in there. But for reals like A fish.
Frag tank -- no sand.
sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
Frag tank no sand? Awww that's not a fun frag tank, I got sand in mine
Vhuang168
Guest
If this is going to be a frag/growout tank where you keep corals for fragging, I would keep only working fish. In a 25g, a six line for pests. Depending on how it's scaped, maybe possibly a bristletooth tang like a Tomini for algae.
For the wrasse, you can keep a container with sand somewhere in the tank for it to sleep in. That's that I'm doing for my Melanrus currently in my bare bottom tank.
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For the wrasse, you can keep a container with sand somewhere in the tank for it to sleep in. That's that I'm doing for my Melanrus currently in my bare bottom tank.
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Coral reefer
Past President
Six line don't need sand
Probably depends a lot on tank mates. Almost all fish will jump if scared enough.