New 90, not sure to go with reef fish or agressive.

[tangyreefer05]

My tank is going good, my blue devil damsel and green chromis are doing great. My tank is crystal clear and I should be seeing algae growth soon. I bought live sand, and bought some rock on ebay, I had africans at the time and was buying lace rock, I got a good deal on a auction for only $40 shipped and they ended up being plastic, however they are pretty nice, plus she gave me a full saltwater test kit and two coralife saltanity meters for free. They are many pieces, about 13, plus I have four pieces of live rock rubble. My intention was to keep this rock as a base rock and buy more live rock to add with it, or leave it how it is and make it a FO tank like I planned. I just wondered if maybe this type of rock wouldnt work for some reason for keeping fish like madrins and small reef fish. I originally wanted a niger trigger, a puffer or lion, maybe a angel or tang. But now I am leaning towards the smaller reef fishes plus a tang and maybe a dwarf angel. I do not plan on keeping any coral in this tank unless I upgrade my light with t5's and stick with reef fish. I know with dragonets you have to wait untill your tank is has pods in it or buy them.

Right now I have a chromis and damsel to help the tank cycle, however I think my cycle already done its "magic". I need growth right now, the aging. This is my first saltwater tank by the way. I have a 30L that will be a QT.

- Basically the reef life appeals to me, having crabs, snails, great looking active fish, some schooling, however I am worried that this might be a big money pit and I really do not want to spend tons of cash on fish because one decides to kill a few every so often. I went through with it already with africans and I want something different.

-Fish Only, would be ideal for me I think because they would hopefully be comfortable in the tank and its enviroment to live a long life, I am not looking to house a list of aggressive fish, ide be happer with a puffer and a trigger. I love the personality that some of the larger fish have, a puffer with its huge eyes looking at you for food. btw, background is temp.

tough choice, any feedback is appreciated, I have a good month to make a decision.

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[yoboyjdizz]

Well first you need to know what your going to do reef or FO, FOWLR... usually your start off FOWLR then go to reef. With that you will be able to pick your livestock. Since you will probably get the reef itch soon then later i would plan for that route.

Just being in the hobby is going to cost you money anyway so just be ready to put out. Cause in this hobby you can't be cheap, unless your good at DIY.

First thing i would do is get some live rock in there and then figure out what you want to do FOWLR or Reef and stock from there.

 

[tangyreefer05]

Yep, sounds good, Im going to order some walt smith fiji rock, maybe 40-60 lbs. I plan on trying for a reef maybe in a few years, right now just fish.

 

[Reefeross]

You have time for a reef later, enjoy FOWLR fish now I say. A trigger would be cool, as would a puffer (I have a puffer in my "reef", it was a "surprise" and so far its actually been pretty good with small fish and inverts). A snowflake eel is another cool choice. And lets not forget Hawks.

Or you could just go reef and get a tang, an angel, and some other cool critters and wait till you can get that Dragonet.

 

[stykthyn]

an undulated trigger would be happy in there for life.