Hey all,
New around here and to the reefing community and hoping I could turn to some more experienced reefers for help in setting up my first tank!
I've got a 29 gallon tank that I'm in the process of setting up and I'd like to eventually either turn it into a mixed reef system, but I am thinking of starting with mainly a variety of different zoas, soft coral and LPS and a bubble tip anemone.
For equipment, I don't really have space to run a sump or refugium, so I am trying to compensate for some of that with lots of live rock (45lbs), lots of water movement (~1400gph, between 45x and 50x flow), and I'm planning on running two power filters. For lighting, I'm going to use a Current USA Orbit Marine LED system.
I tried to make sure that everything here is hardy, fairly peaceful, and I hope they will all get along and play nice together. I'm hoping some of you folks can help me out on that front.
I've got my eye on four different zoa morphs and the following corals:
Soft:
-Pom Pom Xenia
-Green Duncan
-Pineapple Tree
-Starburst polyp
LPS:
-Caulastrea
-Branching Cyphastrea Decadia
-Alien Maze Brain
-Meteor Shower Cyphastrea
Anemone:
Bubble tip anemone
Fish:
2x Ocellaris Clownfish (hoping one or both pair with the anemone)
1 Watchman goby (hopefully pairing with a shrimp)
1 Royal Gramma
1 Sprineri Dottyback
Various cleaner snails, hermit crabs, a shrimp or two (hopefully one with the goby), possibly a crab, possibly some sort of sea star or sand sifter, still looking into these.
I know the fish load may be a bit high (~16"), and am willing to choose between the gramma and dottyback if need be, depending on fit.
I would also really appreciate some advice on a stocking order for the fish. I know you want to get the most peaceful fellows in there first and then work your way up the aggressiveness scale, but pretty much all of these are laid back (or at least I'm hoping), so advice on when and how I should put them in would be super super helping.
This is pretty much everything I can think of; if anyone has thoughts, comments or advice, I am more than welcome to it.
Sorry for the length, just wanted to be thorough!
Thanks!
New around here and to the reefing community and hoping I could turn to some more experienced reefers for help in setting up my first tank!
I've got a 29 gallon tank that I'm in the process of setting up and I'd like to eventually either turn it into a mixed reef system, but I am thinking of starting with mainly a variety of different zoas, soft coral and LPS and a bubble tip anemone.
For equipment, I don't really have space to run a sump or refugium, so I am trying to compensate for some of that with lots of live rock (45lbs), lots of water movement (~1400gph, between 45x and 50x flow), and I'm planning on running two power filters. For lighting, I'm going to use a Current USA Orbit Marine LED system.
I tried to make sure that everything here is hardy, fairly peaceful, and I hope they will all get along and play nice together. I'm hoping some of you folks can help me out on that front.
I've got my eye on four different zoa morphs and the following corals:
Soft:
-Pom Pom Xenia
-Green Duncan
-Pineapple Tree
-Starburst polyp
LPS:
-Caulastrea
-Branching Cyphastrea Decadia
-Alien Maze Brain
-Meteor Shower Cyphastrea
Anemone:
Bubble tip anemone
Fish:
2x Ocellaris Clownfish (hoping one or both pair with the anemone)
1 Watchman goby (hopefully pairing with a shrimp)
1 Royal Gramma
1 Sprineri Dottyback
Various cleaner snails, hermit crabs, a shrimp or two (hopefully one with the goby), possibly a crab, possibly some sort of sea star or sand sifter, still looking into these.
I know the fish load may be a bit high (~16"), and am willing to choose between the gramma and dottyback if need be, depending on fit.
I would also really appreciate some advice on a stocking order for the fish. I know you want to get the most peaceful fellows in there first and then work your way up the aggressiveness scale, but pretty much all of these are laid back (or at least I'm hoping), so advice on when and how I should put them in would be super super helping.
This is pretty much everything I can think of; if anyone has thoughts, comments or advice, I am more than welcome to it.
Sorry for the length, just wanted to be thorough!
Thanks!