r00onmac
DVM in training
So my new setup will be put together in mid august when i move to my new place... hopefully all my LR will be ready by then and ill be set to add to my Bio-Load...
before we get to stocking questions i need to tell everyone the basis of this tank:
i live in a residence hall and im not allowed to have anything over 10 gallons, so i figured my safest bet to breaking that rule (which i enforce by the way... so really it shouldnt matter but it does in case my boss comes to see my tank) is to have a 20 L up top and ill just tell people its a custom sized 10 gallon tank with as large of a fuge as possible underneath to add water volume and therefore stability. For right now its looking like a 20 L up top and a 29 underneath with a small area with LR rubble for the water to drop down into a large fuge with some LR and macro algae and a return section of at least 5 gallons. ill be pumping it back up with a Quiet One 3000 through a SCWD to create alternating current in the tank - with the head loss calculator it comes to about 460 gallons before the SCWD so about 414 after... all in all as little sand as possible in the display (1" or so) and a few inches thick in the fuge and a total of about 70lbs of LR between the display and fuge and return areas.. etc...
Right now i have the 1.5" ocellaris and the 3/4" onyx perc that are going in the 20 L... the peppermint will be banished to the fuge for picking on anything new i put into the tank as he has already killed a carnation coral and 2 BTAs upon introduction by picking the hell out of them, but i love him so he cant go away for good...
as much as i like my "reef" i have realized that corals around here cost too much and locals really only trade SPS so ill probably stick with my forrest of xenia, tonga branch covered in zoos, bunch of mushrooms and let the torch take over one side of the tank because the clowns host it... only coral i would like to add is a red monti cap somewhere near the middle of the display where it will get hit with the alternating current...
so this stocking list is mainly about fish - hence the posting in reef fishes forum...
on top of the two clowns this is what i have been considering:
1 small coral beauty - for sure
1 skunk cleaner - maybe
1 of some sort of sand sifting goby or blennie or something because i hate siphoning sand to keep it clean - definitely needed and recommendations are appreciated
my Fiance likes the royal grammas - so that is a maybe
i am partial to the purple firefish...so that is also a maybe
Now.. seeing as i have all of that water volume the only things i really have to worry about are aggression and overall fish size so id like to get one or two more fish into the display besides the 2 clowns, coral beauty, and sand cleaning fish
before we get to stocking questions i need to tell everyone the basis of this tank:
i live in a residence hall and im not allowed to have anything over 10 gallons, so i figured my safest bet to breaking that rule (which i enforce by the way... so really it shouldnt matter but it does in case my boss comes to see my tank) is to have a 20 L up top and ill just tell people its a custom sized 10 gallon tank with as large of a fuge as possible underneath to add water volume and therefore stability. For right now its looking like a 20 L up top and a 29 underneath with a small area with LR rubble for the water to drop down into a large fuge with some LR and macro algae and a return section of at least 5 gallons. ill be pumping it back up with a Quiet One 3000 through a SCWD to create alternating current in the tank - with the head loss calculator it comes to about 460 gallons before the SCWD so about 414 after... all in all as little sand as possible in the display (1" or so) and a few inches thick in the fuge and a total of about 70lbs of LR between the display and fuge and return areas.. etc...
Right now i have the 1.5" ocellaris and the 3/4" onyx perc that are going in the 20 L... the peppermint will be banished to the fuge for picking on anything new i put into the tank as he has already killed a carnation coral and 2 BTAs upon introduction by picking the hell out of them, but i love him so he cant go away for good...
as much as i like my "reef" i have realized that corals around here cost too much and locals really only trade SPS so ill probably stick with my forrest of xenia, tonga branch covered in zoos, bunch of mushrooms and let the torch take over one side of the tank because the clowns host it... only coral i would like to add is a red monti cap somewhere near the middle of the display where it will get hit with the alternating current...
so this stocking list is mainly about fish - hence the posting in reef fishes forum...
on top of the two clowns this is what i have been considering:
1 small coral beauty - for sure
1 skunk cleaner - maybe
1 of some sort of sand sifting goby or blennie or something because i hate siphoning sand to keep it clean - definitely needed and recommendations are appreciated
my Fiance likes the royal grammas - so that is a maybe
i am partial to the purple firefish...so that is also a maybe
Now.. seeing as i have all of that water volume the only things i really have to worry about are aggression and overall fish size so id like to get one or two more fish into the display besides the 2 clowns, coral beauty, and sand cleaning fish
