Going Fish Only

[plancton]

I´m thinking on going FISH ONLY. I´m basically looking for less tank maintenance. In fact the reason is that I´m having nightmares 3 times a week related to the reef tank.

Right now my tank consumes so much light and additives, I changed the bulbs and the SPS didn´t like it and I have algae blooms everywhere.

And so I´m thinking on perhaps keeping only the GSP, mushrooms, xenia pum pum, and mushrooms.

I´m thinking on keeping lionfish, puffers, etc.

1) How much would this reduce costs?
2) How much less maintenance time is it?
3) The GSP throws very well, also the mushrooms would the fish eat them?
4) what would be the best algae eater for a FOT?, they told me puffers eat snails, hermits and shrimps. What about urchins?.

 

[Aj Flip]

tangs eat algea right?

 

[plancton]

hmmm not much hair algae nor algae on the tank walls.

 

[Aust95]

If you stock a tank with large, hungry fish of the type that you mention, they'll produce more waste. Though they may not be as sensitive to waste as less hardy fish, you'll still need to keep up on waste-removal through water changes and skimming. Depending on fish bioload, that may create just as much labor as an SPS tank with little or no fish, although you'll not have to micro-manage with additives as you would in a reef tank.

 

[plancton]

Can the fish I mentioned live with a sea hare without killing it?