New to hobby!! HELP ME

[SwampyBill]

What's the point of posting here asking for help, when you continually ignore all of the excellent feedback/suggestions you've gotten? As others have said--you really should slow down, research the requirements of your intended fish BEFORE buying for a 90gal system. The harlequin tuskfish needs a minimum of 125gal, sailfin & regal tang need minimum of 180gal systems.

It was suggested you slow down weeks ago, yet you continued to stock a barely cycled tank w/ fish, anemones, a snowflake eel & coral w/o letting tank's bioload catch up. With inadequate filtration, no sump & that bioload, I worry you're headed for a tank crash, esp. when you go offshore for 2 months at a time...Not meaning to sound harsh, but you really should listen to the great advice you asked for & got here....Good luck!

 

[dbsalinas89]

Swampy if you had read threw this forum you would know that the tusk isnt in my 90. I have 3 tanks now and i have not disregarded any of the information. I only chose not to go with a sump unless i have problems later and not to remove my hob pod factory filter

 

[SwampyBill]

Yes, I did read through your thread & know you have 3 tanks; none of which are large enough to adequately house another Harlequin tuskfish, a sailfin & a regal tang--I gave you the requirements of those 3 fish in an earlier post. I know you lost the Harlequin tuskfish & vlamingi tang, too. You're overstocked as it is, yet in another thread you're asking about adding more fish. Listen to Snorvich & others who say to subtract a few fish, not add more...

 

[dbsalinas89]

Well the 90 just has a regal tang, 1 firefish , domino damsel, snowflake. I moved the 2 clarkii's to the 55 and i killed the vlamingii with a rock he darted under as i moved it, another noob mistake that could have happened to any fish, the 100 has a blue spot puffer, Picasso trigger. I dont see any of them as being overstocked AS i took the advice of fellow reefers on here.

 

[dbsalinas89]

The regal is still only 1 inch long and imo has plenty of swimming room. Forgot the 3 inch sailfin in the 90 aswell

 

[SwampyBill]

I doubt any experienced reefer here said it was ok to put a Picasso trigger in a 100gal tank...They need a minimum of 180gal tank. Expect alot of aggression & deaths w/ him in 100gal. Good luck tearing rockwork apart to get the tangs & triggerfish out when they become too big & cause aggression issues in those smaller tanks...

 

[SwampyBill]

Why not move clarkii pair back to 90, & move the snowflake eel to the 55gal alone? It's already eaten a firefish, & will continue to pick off your fish & inverts.

 

[malawi]

Everybody got to have there experience on there own..

 

[SwampyBill]

Hey Malawi--how's Naw'lins these days? I lived in the Marigny & Bywater for years..

 

[acabgd]

my vlamingii tang shot under a rock as i was rescaping and then i quarantined him to allow him to swim alone and heal up ( also avoiding chance of ick in display ). Then my halloween urchin stung him

This is one of the best stories ever on RC!

 

[malawi]

Hey Malawi--how's Naw'lins these days? I lived in the Marigny & Bywater for years..

Everything is okay, coming alone while for as rebuilding, jobs jobs jobs, crime the same..but other then that every manger city have that problem..can't wait for football...Who Dat.

 

[SwampyBill]

This is one of the best stories ever on RC!

Yea, I caught that too...I believe we're here :deadhorse1: ...

 

[dbsalinas89]

Update on the 90! ( tank that i started this thread with ) everything doing great and no problems yet! Thanks for all the help trying to figure out how to frag now as u can see that duncan is getting super big and at 47? Heads i dont want it any bigger