Hey all
Just looking for some advice as far as adding an anemone to my tank. Recently (about 2 weeks ago) I added two ocellaris clowns to my tank. They are happy and healthy and doing well, although they are still searching for "something" to host. I have both a torch and a frospawn that they are courting, but neither really wants to accept their attention.
I added the clowns since clowns don't necessarily need to host to be happy, and since either a torch or a frowspawn have been known to accept their attention.
I'm now feel a bit bad for both the clowns and the torch/frogspawn since the clowns seem to really care about hosting, and the corals don't seem to care to be hosted.
I'd like to consider adding an nem for the sake of both the clowns and the corals, such that I don't know how much "attention" the corals will tolerate, and since the clowns that came home with me really want to host.
I'm concerned that since both the torch and the frogspawn need plenty of room, and any nem will also...that I will end up with one or more of the three doing battle for space and that I may end up losing all because of those battles.
I'm working under the assumption that my lighting will support a nem in that the torch and the frogspawn are going very well, with the torch (a little lower in the water column) has almost doubled in size in the last 2 months, and the frogspawn has also had some significant growth (higher in the water column, doesn't "need" to stretch out so much for lighting so it's growth has been slower, and also harder to gauge) I have not done any target feeding on these guys, but i do shut everything down and feed the tank once a week (opposite the days I do the additives).
My tank stats are below. Any advice towards adding a nem would be greatly appreciated. Of course my first choice would be a rbta, but I don't want to fix my gaze on anything until I have some opinions...
tank
60 gallon
Filtration
70 pds or so of rock, 45 or so of which was live when added. (the lace rock that wasn't live has purpled up and has plenty of activity now, so I'm assuming at this point that it is for the most part now also live)
1 inch live argonite, 2 inch live sand.
Running a Fluval canister, and a hang on rated for a 50 gal.
Aqua C Remora rated to 75 gal
Lighting
4x54w vho one (set) about 6 inches over the water surface (in the front) one (set) about 4 inches above the water surface (back) Each running one 10k, and one blue actinic.
2 Led blue "bubble bar" types on alternate short sides of the tank as moonlight lighting, although they 24X7)
nitrate/nitrites/ammonia - haven't been measurable in 4 months.
salinity 1.024 (+/- .001 with water changes now that I have the mixing down correctly)
Using a mag/stont/iodine/calc about weekly. Using calc as my guide to when I add.
Stock list
3 yellow tailed damsels
1 algea blenny
1 manadarin goby
1 cleaner shrimp
1 fire shrimp
1 lonely peppermint shrimp (taking care of a little aptasia)
2 ocellaris clowns
1 torch
1 forgspawn
misc mushrooms, a kenya tree and some xenia
Just looking for some advice as far as adding an anemone to my tank. Recently (about 2 weeks ago) I added two ocellaris clowns to my tank. They are happy and healthy and doing well, although they are still searching for "something" to host. I have both a torch and a frospawn that they are courting, but neither really wants to accept their attention.
I added the clowns since clowns don't necessarily need to host to be happy, and since either a torch or a frowspawn have been known to accept their attention.
I'm now feel a bit bad for both the clowns and the torch/frogspawn since the clowns seem to really care about hosting, and the corals don't seem to care to be hosted.
I'd like to consider adding an nem for the sake of both the clowns and the corals, such that I don't know how much "attention" the corals will tolerate, and since the clowns that came home with me really want to host.
I'm concerned that since both the torch and the frogspawn need plenty of room, and any nem will also...that I will end up with one or more of the three doing battle for space and that I may end up losing all because of those battles.
I'm working under the assumption that my lighting will support a nem in that the torch and the frogspawn are going very well, with the torch (a little lower in the water column) has almost doubled in size in the last 2 months, and the frogspawn has also had some significant growth (higher in the water column, doesn't "need" to stretch out so much for lighting so it's growth has been slower, and also harder to gauge) I have not done any target feeding on these guys, but i do shut everything down and feed the tank once a week (opposite the days I do the additives).
My tank stats are below. Any advice towards adding a nem would be greatly appreciated. Of course my first choice would be a rbta, but I don't want to fix my gaze on anything until I have some opinions...
tank
60 gallon
Filtration
70 pds or so of rock, 45 or so of which was live when added. (the lace rock that wasn't live has purpled up and has plenty of activity now, so I'm assuming at this point that it is for the most part now also live)
1 inch live argonite, 2 inch live sand.
Running a Fluval canister, and a hang on rated for a 50 gal.
Aqua C Remora rated to 75 gal
Lighting
4x54w vho one (set) about 6 inches over the water surface (in the front) one (set) about 4 inches above the water surface (back) Each running one 10k, and one blue actinic.
2 Led blue "bubble bar" types on alternate short sides of the tank as moonlight lighting, although they 24X7)
nitrate/nitrites/ammonia - haven't been measurable in 4 months.
salinity 1.024 (+/- .001 with water changes now that I have the mixing down correctly)
Using a mag/stont/iodine/calc about weekly. Using calc as my guide to when I add.
Stock list
3 yellow tailed damsels
1 algea blenny
1 manadarin goby
1 cleaner shrimp
1 fire shrimp
1 lonely peppermint shrimp (taking care of a little aptasia)
2 ocellaris clowns
1 torch
1 forgspawn
misc mushrooms, a kenya tree and some xenia
