gareth.hubbarde
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Hi I'm looking for a bit (lot) of advise. I just got a 300 litre (80 us gallon) tank and have begun cycling with live rock out of my small reef tank. I will be adding more live rock hopefully soon. I'm thinking of doing fowlr tank rather than reef with this tank. Only I have questions, I would really appreciate your advise please?
So far I have 40kg of sand on bottom, roughly 15kg live rock to start cycle. The tank is a juwel rio 300 with the bioflow filter, at present it just has floss in to help with dust from the sand. I have 4 54w t5 tubes all white, I have a fluval sea 3 pump, hydor koralia 3200 pump and the juwel filter pump, in total around 6500 lph. I have a tmc v2 hang on protein skimmer that's not switched on yet.
So my questions ;
Do I need blue lights, I was going to buy 2 blue tubes but do I need them for fowlr?
Do I need a lot of live rock? In a reef tank it quite a lot but is it the same for fowlr?
Silly question, do I need a clean up crew or is fowlr not for crabs and snails? The name fowlr suggest not but thought I'd ask.
I fancy having one or two stand out fish with a few tank mates, any advice? Id love a lionfish but will it be OK in my tank size or should I go for dwarf? If I went for volition what other fish could I put in? That would be my choice for show stopper fish but open to other ideas.
Thank you in advance for your answers I appreciate them all.
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So far I have 40kg of sand on bottom, roughly 15kg live rock to start cycle. The tank is a juwel rio 300 with the bioflow filter, at present it just has floss in to help with dust from the sand. I have 4 54w t5 tubes all white, I have a fluval sea 3 pump, hydor koralia 3200 pump and the juwel filter pump, in total around 6500 lph. I have a tmc v2 hang on protein skimmer that's not switched on yet.
So my questions ;
Do I need blue lights, I was going to buy 2 blue tubes but do I need them for fowlr?
Do I need a lot of live rock? In a reef tank it quite a lot but is it the same for fowlr?
Silly question, do I need a clean up crew or is fowlr not for crabs and snails? The name fowlr suggest not but thought I'd ask.
I fancy having one or two stand out fish with a few tank mates, any advice? Id love a lionfish but will it be OK in my tank size or should I go for dwarf? If I went for volition what other fish could I put in? That would be my choice for show stopper fish but open to other ideas.
Thank you in advance for your answers I appreciate them all.
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