Can i have more fish???

[dbsalinas89]

3 month old 90 gallon reef



Salinity: 1.024



Calcium: 420



Phosp: 0



Ammonia: 0



Nitrite: 0



Nitrate: 0 - 10



Dkh: 9 - 12



Ph: 7.8 - 8.4





Live rock / sand

45 lbs of purple rock

90 lbs of Fiji live rock

90 lbs of live carribean fine sand

45 lbs of medium grade live sand



Lighting:



On the fence between 2x hydra fifty two's or ati's hybrid powermodule 4x t5 and 3x 75 watt led



Currently:



48' T5 HO

1 aqua blue plus

1 lunar blue



48' Reef brite VHO all blue led



Filtration:

Penguin 350 carbon filter

Aqua-c remora-s hob skimmer with mj-1200 pump



Flow:

2x 1600 gph powerheads on 5 minute intervals with jbj wave maker kit



Dosing: magnesium, strontium, calcium, dts, iodine



Feeding:



homemade garlic shrimp mixture for fish



Silversides for anemone



3 cubes brine shrimp a week



5 gallon water change weekly



Current inhabitants:



Fish-

firefish, sailfin tang, hippo tang, 2 mated clarki clowns, domino damsel, snowflake eel, cleaner wrasse



Inverts:



20 blue leg hermits, 20 red leg hermits, condy anemone, rainbow day - glo bubble tip, 20 turbo snails, 1 ninja star snail, 2 bumble bee snails, 5 nassarius snails, 3 emerald crabs, cleaner shrimp, pencil urchin



Corals:



8 orange, 7 blue, 1 green ricordia

Multicolored discosoma mushrooms

Superman mushroom

Blue rhodactis mushroom

Green and purple plate coral

Orange / green branching and purple branching hammer coral

Nepthea

Starburst star polyp

Green with blue tips torch

Green / purple highlighter splatter frogspawn

Encrusting gorgonian

Fire and ice, fruit loop, rasta , multiple other zoas ( 150+ polyps )

Red and blue blasto

Red and blue micro mussa

7 head blue tentacle green eyed duncan

25 yellow polyps







the full tank shot is most recent but i had just done a water change so it is cloudy. ( i blow my rocks off and top of sand bed with powerhead just before waterchange weekly )

 

[cubsFAN]

I'm gonna say no. You are already overstocked as is. Too many fish in a short period of time also. I'd pull the tangs as both will quickly outgrow your tank. Your clowns are gonna use half your space and the domino damsel gets really aggressive. Your snowflake might start picking off some of your inverts. Other than your fish choices I think your tank looks great. I just don't think it'll last in the long run. Also you might want to do some research on garlic and fish. I used to use it too, but it sounds like it may do more damage than us reefers believed in the past.

 

[dbsalinas89]

Ok thank you ! I was thinking definately no more fish. For the tangs i have agreement with lfs when they get to large i can sell back to him for smaller versions again. He has large 300-500 gallons he uses for larger fish sales ect.

 

[breederforlife]

Hi, great tank but like cubsFAN said i wouldn't add another fish. How long have you had the cleaner wrasse? Because it won't live long in your tank. It wil starve to death. They need at least 10 large fish to clean a day to survive. I would give it back to your LFS.

Other than this awesome tank

 

[dante411x]

Also you might want to do some research on garlic and fish. I used to use it too, but it sounds like it may do more damage than us reefers believed in the past.

Now I want to know.. Ok. Off to research.

 

[FTDelta]

Hippo tang & Sailfin tang needs to be in larger and longer tanks. Both do best in tanks of at least 180 gallons or more due to their swimming nature.

Ditch the HOB filter. You're already running a skimmer.

 

[dbsalinas89]

The hob filter is a house for pods

The carbon filters slow the water so slow that it acts as a hob refugium. The pods can reproduce in there without being eaten by the fish. When i pull the filter up u can see abunch of amphipods flicking off jumpin back in filter. Im going to get another one to increase production. My front / side glass is littered with them. This one is about the size of a pencil eraser

 

[MrTuskfish]

Now I want to know.. Ok. Off to research.

+1 I know many folks on this forum who have taken garlic off the menu. There is no real evidence that it does anything positive and there are several science-backed findings of long-term problems. It may help appetite a little. When I used to make my own food, I added some Ctclops-eeze, this stuff worked better as an appetite stimulant that garlic ever did for me.

 

[dbsalinas89]

I dont use much but the fish love it. The entire cleanup crew and everything comes out as soon as it hits the water. U can see every crab and snail coming from every crack and crevice to the smell of garlic like its a hit of cocaine

 

[dbsalinas89]

Cheeseburgers, cigarettes, and beer are bad for us to lol. Thanks for the advice though i have looked into it. My lfs has been in business 20 years hes run all others out of the town and he has always fed whats called ( daves crack ). Its a garlic mixture he used and has never had a problem with

 

[airplanes1016]

Cheeseburgers, cigarettes, and beer are bad for us to lol. Thanks for the advice though i have looked into it. My lfs has been in business 20 years hes run all others out of the town and he has always fed whats called ( daves crack ). Its a garlic mixture he used and has never had a problem with

Just because somebody's been doing something for twenty years doesn't make it the right thing. Think lead based paint.

 

[dbsalinas89]

Exactly the reason i said thank you for the information and made the comparison to choices people make because of taste or ease. Drugs/alcohol/excess food. Everyone likes something a little extra and my fish like it to apparently so i dont mind giving it to them even if it is worse than double chocolate cake. Not everyone drives the speed limit and wears a seatbelt

 

[clownfish18]

nope