Advice on Coral list?

[Grimreaperz]

Okay so my fish list is going to be as follows. I have a 36g bow front. With soon to be 20g sump/fuge with coral life 65 protien skimmer.

1× firefish
1x Bangai Cardinal
1x pink streaked wrasse
1x shrimp/goby pair.
2x Perculla clowns.

I was hoping for this mixture or Soft corals and Zoas.

1x Hammer
1x Frogspawn
(Hoping clowns will host since I don't have a big enough setup for a BTA)

3 different coloured zoas
2x acan
1x candy cane
1 mushroom

Maybe an Acropora in the future. Want to start with softies/lps

I am planning to propogate and resell once they grow big enough to do so.


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[Coralfuture]

As long as your lighting is up to PAR then those should be fine but you actually don't want the clowns on the frog or hammer as those 2 don't want to be bothered like a BTA does and will clam up and can potentially die. I have a pair of clowns in my tank with those corals and no BTA or anemone of any kind and they are happy with a little powerhead I have aimed at one of my sps corals.

 

[illinijoe]

Looks good but I bet you get a lot more coral than that after you get started . I'd say you're at the fish limit too if not over by 1 but if you can keep it clean your be fine.

 

[Grimreaperz]

I have the Global Star 300w light. Dual channel. 60x 5w LED'S ands it's hung roughly 10 inch above tank. I don't have a PAR meter (they are ridiculously expensive) but I have already been growing polyps a discus mushroom and another mushroom I'm not sure what it is. But they are growing. They came on my rock recently transfered them to plugs. Will be donating them to my LFS.

Do corals not add much of a bio-load could I add more if I wanted too?

As far as the fish list. I could remove the cardinal or goby. But I do weekly 10% water changes religiously.

Thanks for the heads up on the clowns hosting the frog or hammer.

And these corals will be added slowly as well. Probably 1-2 max at a time. After QT dips etc.




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[Grimreaperz]

A question about QT for Corals. Can I get away with a standard 60w house lamp. Or 10g ballast lid light for the coral QT? Or do I need to go buy a super high intensity light for QT as well?

And can I put corals and fish in the same QT or so they need to be separated? I have a main 10g qt I will be setting up in a couple days could I just use it for both fish and corals? I TTM all my fish.

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[Coralfuture]

I would say keep the coral QT and the fish QT separate because trace amounts of medicine(ie copper) will kill your corals overnight. The house lamp probably wont work BUT a led high intensity bulb in it will which will run you about 40-60$ on amazon (cheap/pricy ?? that's in the eye of the buyer) should do the trick in the short term. I would personally dip the coral more than anything my trusted LFS does it first (I've watched cuz I don't trust what I haven't seen) then if I do decide on another coral; I dip it yet again when it comes home with me. The corals bio load is almost non existent unless you start feeding them then that food becomes your bio load which can get to be a lot of nitrates quickly to where 10% weekly isn't enough high. The lighting should be enough but make sure when you get your SPS corals they end high with high flow so they are extra happy! (Either SPS is happy or it dies IME)

 

[keiferd]

make sure you cover the top or the firefish will jump out.

 

[keiferd]

I also recommend a toadstool leather coral, the clownfish will host it and it looks like an anemone