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[Blazerdog]

Hey,

A few years back I used to love doing this aquarium stuff, mostly I took care of other peoples, because I actually never got mine running properly, so I'm coming back and was just wondering some general tips, I will be setting up a 29 gallon tank, so fish combinations that are easy to take care of, I remeber something like FTWLR or some thing like that not sure exactly, anyways if you guys could help me out with the different types of tanks, general tips, fish combinations, critters and such.

Thank You

 

[sir_dudeguy]

FOWLR is what you mean i think? it means "fish only with live rock". So there would only be....fish...w/live rock lol. No corals or anything. A reef would be full blown w/corals and inverts and everything.

So do you want to go full reef and get corals? or just fish and live rock?

If you wanna do reef, that can change a few things (mainly lighting) but they're pretty similar.

For some nice easy starters for a 29 i'd say you could do a clownfish pair (the regular clowns..not maroon clowns they get huge and mean), a royal gramma, and maybe a yellow watchman gobie. Theres many many fish that would be good in there, those are just ones that i'd think would look cool.

Go to liveaquaria.com and look at their fish section...go to the nano fish section and any of those would be ok in a 29. Then look at the corals too. Let us know what you like the looks of and everything and the people here would be able to help you out.

 

[Blazerdog]

OK So here is a list of fish I found particularly cool

Bicolor Psuedochromis
Ocellaris Clownifihs a.k.a Nemos
Yellowhead Jawfish
Royal Gramma ( Samethingas Psuedochromis?)
Blue/Green Reef Chromis
Six Line Wrasse

I'd Really like some shrimp
Blood Red Fire Shrimp
Peppermint Shrimp
Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
Dwarf Blue Hermit Crab

And I did really get what the other stuff was so any help on corals SPS, LPS and all those other terms fan worms etc.

Thanks Alot

SO any other info on these fish and stuff and info in general.

 

[sir_dudeguy]

Those fish should all be fine (not all of them in the same tank tho! lol)

The psuedochromis is a type of gramma (or the other way around i should say) i believe, so they're prolly perty much the same.

The wrasse you'd prolly need to watch for...i've got one in a 55 and he's really active, swimming the lenght back and forth all day and pickin at the rocks, but he should be fine.

The chromis would be the only ones that i personally dont really care for...they get pretty big, so you'd only be able to have like 2 or 3 probably, and they make a pecking order usually, sometimes resulting in the death of one or more weeker ones.

Shrimp

I dont know anything about the fire shrimp, but they look cool
The peppermints...i've got one. You never see it tho. I gues it only comes out at night. But its great for eating aptaisia (a pest type of anemone).

The cleaner/skunk shrimp isd the coolest imo. They'll pic up loose food and stuff, so they kinda clean up, but if a fish has a parasite or something on it, it will go up to the shrimp and let it eat the thing off of it..pretty cool looking

I'd skip on the hermits tho. I've got a few different kinds and none of them are any good. They dont really make any difference in the algae because thye just eat loose stuff, but they've killed about 10 of my snails, even tho i've put about 30 or 40 extra shells in there for them.

I'd say get a bunch of cerith snails...but not if you really want the hermits...because the cerith snail shells happen to be the ones that hermits like (at least all mine are wearing them now!)

sps corals are the hardest ones to keep i think...stands for "small polyped stoney coral" i think

LPS isnt too hard from what i hear...they're stuff like hammers i think..."large polyped stoney" is what lps stands for.

Fan worms are just a little worm that lives in like a tube thing and has like a feather/fan thing that comes out to help it filter food out of the water.

 

[Blazerdog]

So what are some possible, fish combinations.

 

[xtrstangx]

Bicolor Psuedochromis- good fish
Ocellaris Clownifihs a.k.a Nemos- good fish
Yellowhead Jawfish- require very very deep sand beds and specific sand bed composition (amount of shells, small rock rubble, etc) and 50% die within a year, IMO
Royal Gramma ( Samethingas Psuedochromis?)- good fish
Blue/Green Reef Chromis- Read what sir_reefdude wrote.. these don't last too long in most tanks
Six Line Wrasse- May get aggressive in a 29g but should be OK

The Gramma and Pseudochromis are similar, but not the same.

 

[Blazerdog]

So any other fish that will go well.

So im thinking

Ocellars Clownifsh
Six Line Wrasse
Royal Gramma

Any other suggestions

 

[Blazerdog]

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