Hello, so I had a few questions about stocking my aquarium and questions about the care of the chosen animals.
My tank is actually 6 years old but, as of the last 6 months it's been completely void of fish and only contains blue leg hermit crabs, a few various snails, and a monster sized ruby crab named Bimo. The tank is a 40 gallon breeder with a 2-3 inch and bed and several pounds of live rock. I'm still in the process of moving the rocks around as I didn't like my previous aquascape. There are also several money plants and mermaid fans. I have a 30 gallon sump/refugium for the tank as well and it is overflowed with chaeto, calurpa and ulva algaes and it has a 5 inch sand bed. In the next week or so I will be placing a new return pump in the tank that will do at least 1000GPH. I already have a 250GPH and an 800GPH powerhead and I may add one more 800. All my water parameters are 0 and my ph is 8.2, and I have T5 lighting.
For fish I wanted to try to do 3-5 larger sized fish instead of several small ones. Some of my ideas are mostly dwarf angels, clowns and butterflyfish.
The dwarf angel I wanted to try was the lemonpeel angel. I've had about 4 dwarf angels, 2 were coral beauties, a midnight and a ebli so I wanted to try something different. If anyone has any other suggestions that'd be nice. If the lemonpeel isn't a good idea should I try the midnight again?
The butterflyfish is a big question. I've heard that a lot are difficult to feed. I wanted to try a pearlscale butterfly but, if they are difficult or if there are easier and prettier fish I'd like to hear the suggestions.
I want a clown, and possibly and anemone(doubt it), but I don't want the typical perc/False-perc. I had my eye on a pink skunk but, I'd appreciate other suggestions or comments from people who own them.
Besides those three I'm stumped : (. Anyone have any ideas? I'd prefer the fish to be around 4inches but, other than that I'm open to ideas.
My tank is actually 6 years old but, as of the last 6 months it's been completely void of fish and only contains blue leg hermit crabs, a few various snails, and a monster sized ruby crab named Bimo. The tank is a 40 gallon breeder with a 2-3 inch and bed and several pounds of live rock. I'm still in the process of moving the rocks around as I didn't like my previous aquascape. There are also several money plants and mermaid fans. I have a 30 gallon sump/refugium for the tank as well and it is overflowed with chaeto, calurpa and ulva algaes and it has a 5 inch sand bed. In the next week or so I will be placing a new return pump in the tank that will do at least 1000GPH. I already have a 250GPH and an 800GPH powerhead and I may add one more 800. All my water parameters are 0 and my ph is 8.2, and I have T5 lighting.
For fish I wanted to try to do 3-5 larger sized fish instead of several small ones. Some of my ideas are mostly dwarf angels, clowns and butterflyfish.
The dwarf angel I wanted to try was the lemonpeel angel. I've had about 4 dwarf angels, 2 were coral beauties, a midnight and a ebli so I wanted to try something different. If anyone has any other suggestions that'd be nice. If the lemonpeel isn't a good idea should I try the midnight again?
The butterflyfish is a big question. I've heard that a lot are difficult to feed. I wanted to try a pearlscale butterfly but, if they are difficult or if there are easier and prettier fish I'd like to hear the suggestions.
I want a clown, and possibly and anemone(doubt it), but I don't want the typical perc/False-perc. I had my eye on a pink skunk but, I'd appreciate other suggestions or comments from people who own them.
Besides those three I'm stumped : (. Anyone have any ideas? I'd prefer the fish to be around 4inches but, other than that I'm open to ideas.
