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tastydog said:
cool, glad to see someone else jumping in here :) -- I was starting to get overwhelmed!

Could you offer me any advice, my post is quite a ways up.


Brandon
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Oh good wise crack----If you would like to take a few min to add up how many posts I have answered on this thread I sure you wouldn't be so flippant with your comments.
 
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looking for suggestions on this new list

29g mixed reef with about 35 lbs of LR with a 20g sump/refugium

-flame angel
-McCoskers flasher wrasse
-2 percula clowns
-peppermint shrimp
-cleaner shrimp
 
capn_hylinur said:
Oh good wise crack----If you would like to take a few min to add up how many posts I have answered on this thread I sure you wouldn't be so flippant with your comments.
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I am sorry. I was being 100% genuine. I can see how it may appear that I was being flippant. I assure you however, I was not. I was trying to help people and was quickly overwhelmed by the questions. I was happy to see you answering them, and so many so quick. I like your responses. I read the entire DSB post in the beginner section last week and saw all of your responses there. I respect your opinions already based on that and immediately recognized you when I saw your posts here. I did not mean to offend you or show any lack of respect. I am a beginner offering what I can. You are a long time contributor here as I could well see and already knew. Again, sorry for any offense because NONE was meant :/ I was hoping to get _help_ from you.

I hope you understand.

Best Regards,
Brandon
 
Thanks Capn!! I did more research on the sally's and agree that they would just get way too big for my tank. Thanks again.
 
tastydog said:
I am sorry. I was being 100% genuine. I can see how it may appear that I was being flippant. I assure you however, I was not. I was trying to help people and was quickly overwhelmed by the questions. I was happy to see you answering them, and so many so quick. I like your responses. I read the entire DSB post in the beginner section last week and saw all of your responses there. I respect your opinions already based on that and immediately recognized you when I saw your posts here. I did not mean to offend you or show any lack of respect. I am a beginner offering what I can. You are a long time contributor here as I could well see and already knew. Again, sorry for any offense because NONE was meant :/ I was hoping to get _help_ from you.

I hope you understand.

Best Regards,
Brandon
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Its okay Brandon, I was a little overworked and over tired yesterday. Thanks for the positives
 
tastydog said:
I have a 90gal tank with a 10 gal fuge/sump ~3500GPH of water flow and 230lbs of live rock and a skimmer rated for 150gal. I do 10-15% water changes once a week or every two weeks at most.

I currently have:
3 clownfish
5 blue yellow fin damsels
1 scopas tang
1 blue diamond damsel
1 scooter blenny (dragonette)
1 small linka starfish
1 small sand sifting star
1 serpant star
9 nass snails
3 mexican turbos (will probably get rid of them)
5 small snails I forget what kind, small round ones
and about 10 red hermit crabs
I also have 3 rock boring urchins that came as hitch hikers. I am going to ween it down to 1. I have gotten rid of like 10 so far.
I also have 1 cleaner shrimp and 6 peppermints.

I know I am almost maxed out, if not already, but I want to get 4 more fish

- Powder Brown Tang
- goby, similar to mandarin but different colors
- small colorful fish, I forget the name but it only gets to be 3" adult
- jawfish

I do plan to have lots of coral too, I realize this creates some issues, but I want to try to keep a heavily stocked tank.

Any help would be great.

Brandon
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I would not add a brown tang with the scopias in there. One tang is enough in a 90 gal esp when it is heavily stocked. The powder browns can be quite aggressive also.
You have a lot of damsels in there(clowns also in the damsel family) so that is a pretty rough tank to add other small fish esp gobies.

I can suggest a bicolour dotty back with is half purple and half yellow. It can stand its own with the damsels.
A couple of blue green chromies(also in the damsel family) would survive in there and maybe a red fairy wrasse.

Your filtration system is excellent but that is only one factor with the loading up the tank with fish.
Just as important is territory. If you increase the numbers too much then you are asking for turf wars
One way around it is to balance out the open water swimmers to the reef swimmers to the bottom dwellers.
The clown fish and the tang are open water swimmers. The goby a bottom dweller. The chromies are reef dwellers.
 
You want as big a sump as you can get. 20g isn't enough for a 90-100, and probably won't handle the overlow from the DT during a power outage.
 
SmknReefer said:
4 small Nassarius snails, 6 damsel and roughly 40 lbs of live rock and slowly adding more weekly. HOWEVER, I do happen to have a Biowheel filter going along with a SeaClone 150 skimmer which is temporary fix until I have more money going. I have standard lighting with a heater but I don't have a sump or fuge or anything else cool sounding, however I would much rather get those things set up before I were to have any other little critters in there.

With that in mind, is it better to buy the sump, fuge etc or try and rig up my own plumbing. I want whats best for my little fishes, they're even eating from my hand now!!! I didn't even know damsels did that, well domino, green do. My bluetails come out to beg for food but definately like their privacy. So tell me to buy or build?
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I know everyone on here will tell u sump is the only way but what you have will work exp. since you have such a small tank. I run a biowheel, cascade canister and a prizm protein skimmer( abt to be the same as ur running) on my 55 and here is a pic of what I have ach. so far, I guess what I am sayin is dont beat ur self up abt a sump just clean your biowheel weekly and change pads every 3 weeks and u shld be just fine :)
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That is my 55 gal that I run minimal filters, aka no sump, but I have 80+ lbs of live rock lol so get as much LR u can or want and be good at cleaning :)
 
So far I have a cuc (snails, crabs, and a shrimp) and a gobie. I would like my next purchase to be a pair of clowns and an anemone. I would like to know what would be a good host anemone for the clowns and for a rookie. Im running brand new pc bulbs actinic and 10k's. and my parameters are in good shape. thanks
 
44Gal DT Reef Tank. w/ 10 Gal Sump (Total Water Volume would be 40 Gal I guess?)

1 Flame Angel 1 1/2 Inches
2 True Percs 1inch and 1 1/2 inch
1 Small HYT
1 Blenny (any ideas what kind)

Can I add more? If yes, I wanna add purple firefish or banggai cardinal please quote me some ideas..... Thank you very much.
 
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