Zebra eel

[rinconmike]

I have a 150 FOWLR. I have

6" porc puffer
6" red breasted wrasse
24" snowflake eel
4" niger trigger (in qt and moving sat)
6" banna wrasse (in qt and moving sat)

I was thinking of adding a zebra eel to put in my qt next and then later in 150.

Can it go with a snowflake?

If so, is adding one pushing to much in my tank?





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[DoubleM 10]

I have a 150 FOWLR. I have

6" porc puffer
6" red breasted wrasse
24" snowflake eel
4" niger trigger (in qt and moving sat)
6" banna wrasse (in qt and moving sat)

I was thinking of adding a zebra eel to put in my qt next and then later in 150.

Can it go with a snowflake?

If so, is adding one pushing to much in my tank?





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IMO i would not add anymore.

the zebra is more mellow than the snowflake.

the zebra is a pebble tooth. the snowflake if im not mistaken is a sharp tooth.

i think that their is a lot of bioload in the tank already. adding another fish might be pushing it.

OT how is that droid razr?

 

[E.D.E]

IMO i would not add anymore.

the zebra is more mellow than the snowflake.

the zebra is a pebble tooth. the snowflake if im not mistaken is a sharp tooth.

i think that their is a lot of bioload in the tank already. adding another fish might be pushing it.

OT how is that droid razr?

Snowflakes are pebble toothed morays as well.:wave:

 

[rinconmike]

Thanks.

I will probably hold off on adding anything else for now then.

the razr is not bad. Better than the droidx.



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[anbosu]

Thanks.

I will probably hold off on adding anything else for now then.

the razr is not bad. Better than the droidx.



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I have one with a snowflake now and no issues - I agree that it would put a strain on your tank from a bioload perspective.

 

[gabrielsfreedom]

Unfortunately I have to agree especially with the Porky your bioload is pretty high

 

[Moray keeper]

The two morays should be ok providing they are close in size. What do you have for filtration?

 

[rinconmike]

I have around 50-60 pounds of Pukani Live Rock and a Large Coral Skeleton. I also have a Wet Dry and over the last two months been taking out the bioballs. I am almost done taking them out. I now have Seachem Pond Matrix. I have around 4 liters of those in there and put those in when I started taking out the bioballs (seachem recommends 1.5 liters for 150 gallons (.5L for 50 gallons)).

I also have an Octopus XP2000sss Skimmer in the sump as well as a nuclear canister filter that is branched off my main pump. Also on that branch after the canister filter is my chiller, a BRS Jumbo Reactor running GFO and a Single Reactor running ROX carbon.

I change out the canister filter cartridge every 2 weeks to keep it from becoming biological. I also change out the GFO and Carbon every two weeks for now too.

I also have a filter pad and a 100 micron filter pad on top of the sump to remove what it can and change those out weekly.

Last, I do 10% water changes weekly.

thanks,

Mike

 

[NEK-ap24]

I am new to the FOWLR world, and wanting to set up my 225 with similar fish.

Rincon,
what do you have for a clean up crew? is anything safe with a porc. puffer? or does it all have to be done with herb. fish and good filtration? (and probably a lot of glass scraping)

thanks,

 

[rinconmike]

I am the cleanup crew!!! I have no snails or crabs.

I siphon once a week with 10% water chances. I did have a turbo and conch in there once. For the most part, the fish stayed away. once or twice they knocked them over.

I really have no issue with algae in the glass (yet). I do run GFO and Rox Carbon too.

However, they only lasted a couple of months. The fish did not eat them; rather, I think they died from high nitrates. In the last few months I pulled my bioballs and they are all gone. I have not checked the nitrates in a while and need to. They would range from 25 to 40ppm. I did try bio-pellets for around 6 months, but a lot of cloudy water. After I added more rock a few months back, and had the pellets going still, I got a bad bloom that lasted several weeks. Could have been from leaching phosphates in the rock along with high nitrates, not sure, but have not put the pellets back. Once I pulled them, water was clear in a day or two.

Mike