Wife wants yellow fish... help me out

[chkltcow]

So it looks like the 55g I'm gonna be setting up as saltwater is moving right along. I have all the powerheads in my posession, some base rock to build a bit of structure with, an Aquaclear 500 to build a small refugium with, and stuff to plumb up a closed loop system with an intake on one end and the powerhead on the other end. Everything else will be moved over from my 20g saltwater tank, including about 35 lbs of live rock, some zoanthids, a blue damsel, a three stripe damsel, my yellow watchman gobies, and my pistol shrimp. You'll understand why I clarified those with "my" in a moment

So my wife has made her only specification that she wants a yellow fish. I tell her "but darling I've got those two gobies... they're yellow. "But those are YOUR fish... I want a yellow fish for me". *boggle* (Yeah, women are nuts )

So, this leaves me kinda stuck and confused. I've looked over what other yellow fish are available and I'm not sure what to do. The tank is too small for a yellow tang... lemonpeel angels nip at corals, and I would eventually like to keep more corals in the tank... and the gobies aren't "hers". *shrug* So what other nice small yellow saltwater fish are there that are reef compatible and not too aggressive?

 

[keane]

So it looks like the 55g I'm gonna be setting up as saltwater is moving right along. I have all the powerheads in my posession, some base rock to build a bit of structure with, an Aquaclear 500 to build a small refugium with, and stuff to plumb up a closed loop system with an intake on one end and the powerhead on the other end. Everything else will be moved over from my 20g saltwater tank, including about 35 lbs of live rock, some zoanthids, a blue damsel, a three stripe damsel, my yellow watchman gobies, and my pistol shrimp. You'll understand why I clarified those with "my" in a moment

So my wife has made her only specification that she wants a yellow fish. I tell her "but darling I've got those two gobies... they're yellow. "But those are YOUR fish... I want a yellow fish for me". *boggle* (Yeah, women are nuts )

So, this leaves me kinda stuck and confused. I've looked over what other yellow fish are available and I'm not sure what to do. The tank is too small for a yellow tang... lemonpeel angels nip at corals, and I would eventually like to keep more corals in the tank... and the gobies aren't "hers". *shrug* So what other nice small yellow saltwater fish are there that are reef compatible and not too aggressive?

Solution....don't go saltwater. Stay freshwater tropical. Turn your 55 gallon into an African Mbuna tank and get a school of Labidochromis Caeruleus, Yellow Labs .

Show the wife my sig...she'll love ya for it!!

(Sorry, didn't really help wit your dilemma did it ) )

steve8)

 

[Opcn]

TBR, Don't say those aweful things here, Going FW, eww

Steve, long time no see, hmm your dilemma is a tought one, barring buying her a yellow goby you could try a clarkii Clown (looks like a pail yellow perc as a juvy, then yellow goes black) Perhaps a long nosed yellow buterfly (same boat as the lemonpeel angel) If your willing to put up with an unholy terror you could go with the yellow damsel http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=132 or although its not very yellow a carpenters flasher wrasse http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=329

Perhaps a blackmouth Bicolor chromis (Agresive) http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=109

OR a Black Bar Chromis (peacful)
http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...cfm?pCatId=1848

If you have yellow watchmen you could get her neon yellow gobies
http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=175
or yellow clowngobies http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...cfm?pCatId=1441
or citron http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=161

I sure hope you're okay with live aquaria, good to see that you are still alive.

Edit: Just found this little vwenimous beauty. Canary Blenny http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...y.cfm?pCatId=70
He'd be great, but you would haveto wear some thick gloves in the tank

 

[Fishy411]

1- whatever she says do not get her a yellow tang, or lemonpeel angel because she'll probly want one
2- Clown goby would be about the only thing u could have as yur tank isnt very big

 

[Opcn]

I dont think that we are in danger of steve trying to wedge a fish in a tank thats too small. and there are options outside of the goby, there are a few dotty backs that are yellow and purple in addition to al the ones I mentioned before.

 

[parker313]

Yellow clown goby was my first thought too.

Although, I have to admit that I *love* the idea of an Mbuna tank with Yellow Labs )

 

[Ed4567]

midas blennie

 

[Navarre]

Yellow wrasse.

Yellow Wrasse

Lovely itlte fish and i dont understand why its classed as expert only.
As an alternative there is the white bellied yellow wrasse. its easier to find but both are cheap and reef safe. I had the white bellied wrasse in my old system and it was totally safe.

 

[Def]

Take a goby out, bag it, wait till she comes home, give her the bag and say "here, dear, I got you a yellow fish"....

 

[blout]

yellow goat fish

 

[leon]

I did have a yellow wrass, but it jumped out the other day , must have done it just before i put my eggcrate on before light out!. Was a gorgeous fish, and was my regal's best companion, they were always together
leon

 

[chkltcow]

Yellow wrasse.

Yellow Wrasse

Lovely itlte fish and i dont understand why its classed as expert only.
As an alternative there is the white bellied yellow wrasse. its easier to find but both are cheap and reef safe. I had the white bellied wrasse in my old system and it was totally safe.

The wrasse is gorgeous, but one thing about that worries me...

In addition, it may eat feather dusters, wild shrimp, tubeworms, and flatworms. It may also eat parasites off of tank mates.

I want featherdusters.... and I'm concerned about what type of "wild shrimp" it will eat. I love my peppermint shrimp in my other tank... and I want to get one or two for the 55g, possibly a normal cleaner shrimp too. I don't want them to get eaten, obviously

As for expert only.... LiveAquaria's classing sometimes surprises me. I mean.. they consider Xenia to be difficult.
http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=694
The Xenia I have grows like a weed, even in poor light! What makes it difficult?

 

[amstar15]

midas blenny.. cool cool fish.

 

[Navarre]

I must question why some of these fish and inverts are classed as expert only. Xenia is very easy to keep if ita culviated from tank specimens.. it is harder for wild caught however. As for the wrasse... mine never attempted to eat any of the above creatures mentions (feather dusters etc...) it mainly fed on pods and of course any food you could place in the tank. IMO they are a very safe addition for a reef tank. The one i kept was the white belly yellow wrasse. I have little experience with the full yelow wrasse however.

 

[chris allsop]

yellow assessor.