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Silence995
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75 gallon reef tank inhabitants. ... established tank...
Kole tang
Flame angel
Occ clown
Clown goby
Lawnmower blenny
Chomis
Bangaii cardinal
Thinking of adding one or more of the following:
Royal gramma
Hawkfish
Flasher wrasse
Mandarin
How does it look?
Kole tang
Flame angel
Occ clown
Clown goby
Lawnmower blenny
Chomis
Bangaii cardinal
Thinking of adding one or more of the following:
Royal gramma
Hawkfish
Flasher wrasse
Mandarin
How does it look?
50 gallons reef tank 30" x 22" x 18"
Actual population :
- Pair of pink streaked wrasse (Pseudocheilinops ataenia)
- Pair of blue stripe pipefish (Doryrhamphys excisus)
- Pair of red fire shrimp (lysmata debelius)
What i would like to add to get an endemic solomon island pop (except shrimp)
- Pair of yellow nose prawn goby (Stonogobiops xanthorhinica) with candy pistol shrimp
- 1 Multibar dwarf angelfish (Paracentropyge multifasciata)
What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Thomas
Actual population :
- Pair of pink streaked wrasse (Pseudocheilinops ataenia)
- Pair of blue stripe pipefish (Doryrhamphys excisus)
- Pair of red fire shrimp (lysmata debelius)
What i would like to add to get an endemic solomon island pop (except shrimp)
- Pair of yellow nose prawn goby (Stonogobiops xanthorhinica) with candy pistol shrimp
- 1 Multibar dwarf angelfish (Paracentropyge multifasciata)
What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Thomas
What would you suggest as a show piece for this tank.
I have already tried with fathead anthias (Serranocirrhitus latus) but he got ick and died. I don't want to give another try to this fish.
So i'm looking for a 4-5" original fish, ok with inverts and that isn't a goby, a wrasse or a pipefish and that would fit the project ...
I am interested in getting Blue/Green Chromis and am curious of its compatibility. I picked that one since all other Chromis seem to grow a bit bigger and are labeled as semi-aggressive. Is this one really peaceful or are all chromis similar?
Should I get one and stick with one or get three at once?
Fish: 1 Ocellaris Clown, 1 B&W Clown, 1 Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Fire Shrimp, 1 Corral Banded Shrimp, 1 Arrow Crab, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, Bristle Worms and CUC.
Reef: 150 lb. Sand, 70 lb. Rock, Frog Spawn, Button Polyps, Mushrooms, Kenya Trees, Feather Star, Brain and several aiptasias. . . .
Tank: 50g hex, overflow, 20um sock filter, 23 gal sump with DSB, 2 pumps, 3 in-tank circulators, 5 UH fluorescent, chiller 650, heater 150W, skimmer 65, I got the tank on 7/18/2014 but it has been established for over 15 years!!
BTW, Getting the Feather Star was an ignorant rookie mistake on my part. . . .
Should I get one and stick with one or get three at once?
Fish: 1 Ocellaris Clown, 1 B&W Clown, 1 Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Fire Shrimp, 1 Corral Banded Shrimp, 1 Arrow Crab, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, Bristle Worms and CUC.
Reef: 150 lb. Sand, 70 lb. Rock, Frog Spawn, Button Polyps, Mushrooms, Kenya Trees, Feather Star, Brain and several aiptasias. . . .
Tank: 50g hex, overflow, 20um sock filter, 23 gal sump with DSB, 2 pumps, 3 in-tank circulators, 5 UH fluorescent, chiller 650, heater 150W, skimmer 65, I got the tank on 7/18/2014 but it has been established for over 15 years!!
BTW, Getting the Feather Star was an ignorant rookie mistake on my part. . . .
If it were me, I would go for a seahorse. (Not the pygmy seahorses found in the Solomon Islands as these are incredibly difficult)
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Fish Biscuit
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Hi Steve,
I'm thinking about moving my tank home. Will the Randall goby, possum wrasse, helfrichi, & the barnacle blenny be ok in a 20L for a month or 2? Nothing else will be added until everything goes back in the 40B & gets settled again.
Just want to make sure this is an ok plan. Thanks again
I'm thinking about moving my tank home. Will the Randall goby, possum wrasse, helfrichi, & the barnacle blenny be ok in a 20L for a month or 2? Nothing else will be added until everything goes back in the 40B & gets settled again.
Just want to make sure this is an ok plan. Thanks again
Hi Steve,
I'm thinking about moving my tank home. Will the Randall goby, possum wrasse, helfrichi, & the barnacle blenny be ok in a 20L for a month or 2? Nothing else will be added until everything goes back in the 40B & gets settled again.
Just want to make sure this is an ok plan. Thanks again
Assuming it is fully cycled, they should be fine.
Fish Biscuit
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Oh yes it will be fully cycled before anyone goes in. I will probably pull some LR out of the 40 to start it off if that's how the moving plan goes. Thank you again
My reef has a flow of 1900 g/h wont it be too much for a seahorse (the only one referenced by fishbase that is not pygmy is the hippocampus kuda)?
That is pretty high for pipefish as well. You must exercise great care as you are keeping fairly delicate species.
I'm keeping an eye on them, but they haveńt seemed to be bothered for the last six month. They are pretty hardy, even playing with the flow sometime. Eating frozen food very well, live artemias and pods also. Male has been bearing eggs few times. They even had their cleaning behavior with the fathead anthias.
Whiterabbitrage
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Zebra moray is reef safe?
Zebra moray is reef safe?
Steve is this true? Someone on RC says they have kept one with no problems. I've checked around, and although they are described as " aggressive" they are described as community fish. Isn't this a paradox? LA says they can be kept in 120 gallons, but that they grow to 5'. How is this possible? Surely they should be kept in a much larger tank. I'm setting up a 150 and this would be great, but surely it eats small fish. What do you think?
Zebra moray is reef safe?
Steve is this true? Someone on RC says they have kept one with no problems. I've checked around, and although they are described as " aggressive" they are described as community fish. Isn't this a paradox? LA says they can be kept in 120 gallons, but that they grow to 5'. How is this possible? Surely they should be kept in a much larger tank. I'm setting up a 150 and this would be great, but surely it eats small fish. What do you think?
MichaelW
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Hi, been in reefing about a year and a half now but first time posting on RC. my current 90 gallon tank has been doing really well but with a move of house it only means 1 thing... upgrade!! so new tank is 72x27x24 about 200G. the tank will be SPS heavy and will be a bacteria driven system with biopellets. I am looking for a fairly heavy stocked tank. any way my stocking plan is as follows.
3x blue reef chromis- possible they may work down to one i know
1x royal gramma (from current tank)
1x lyretail anthias (from current tank)
1x leopard wrasse (from current tank)
5x Carberryi Anthias
3x Resplendent Anthias
1x one spot fox face (from current tank)
1x Melanurus Wrasse
1x Red Velvet Fairy Wrasse (from current tank)
1x Linneatus Fairy Wrasse (from current tank)
1x Blue Throat Trigger- not shrimp safe but crab and snail safe (from current tank)
1x Hippo tang (from Current tank)
1x Blonde Naso Tang
I also currently have a chevron tang in my current tank but am unsure if he will make the move due to aggression issues.
Please let me know what you think. I think the filtration system could handle this load but let me know your thoughts. I had also thought about adding a female or 2 for the fairy wrasses but do not know if this would be possible
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even thought this is my first post RC has been a great help in my research for my reef.
Mike
3x blue reef chromis- possible they may work down to one i know
1x royal gramma (from current tank)
1x lyretail anthias (from current tank)
1x leopard wrasse (from current tank)
5x Carberryi Anthias
3x Resplendent Anthias
1x one spot fox face (from current tank)
1x Melanurus Wrasse
1x Red Velvet Fairy Wrasse (from current tank)
1x Linneatus Fairy Wrasse (from current tank)
1x Blue Throat Trigger- not shrimp safe but crab and snail safe (from current tank)
1x Hippo tang (from Current tank)
1x Blonde Naso Tang
I also currently have a chevron tang in my current tank but am unsure if he will make the move due to aggression issues.
Please let me know what you think. I think the filtration system could handle this load but let me know your thoughts. I had also thought about adding a female or 2 for the fairy wrasses but do not know if this would be possible
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even thought this is my first post RC has been a great help in my research for my reef.
Mike
I do not give analysis on aggressive fish community tanks; I also do not get into "he says" type discussions. If they are credible in your mind, they should be your source of information. You can find almost any point of view here, the problem will always be deciding how credible the source is.
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