Looking for suggestions on beginner friendly fish and corals to start adding. Tank perimeters have been stable , tank is over a month old. I have not hit “the ugly stage” but I had a couple of very mature live rocks from day 1 in my tank (the 3 on the far left). I read with seasoned live rocks the ugly stage can be prevented or severely less (not sure it’s it’s true or not but not getting my hopes up) I do not have a clean up crew right now, LFS has said it’s to early to add as I don’t have any algae in my tank yet. I have had some orangey looking algae grow on the back of the plastic cover and on the output nozzle
Currently have:
2 black and white clown fish
1 green chromis
1 blue springer damsel
Corals:
2 toad stools
1 GSP
Looking for suggestions on beginner friendly fish and corals to start adding. Tank perimeters have been stable , tank is over a month old. I have not hit “the ugly stage” but I had a couple of very mature live rocks from day 1 in my tank (the 3 on the far left). I read with seasoned live rocks the ugly stage can be prevented or severely less (not sure it’s it’s true or not but not getting my hopes up) I do not have a clean up crew right now, LFS has said it’s to early to add as I don’t have any algae in my tank yet. I have had some orangey looking algae grow on the back of the plastic cover and on the output nozzle
Currently have:
2 black and white clown fish
1 green chromis
1 blue springer damsel
Corals:
2 toad stools
1 GSP
Due to the size of tank and age depending on par mushrooms and maybe some zoanthids i wouldn't recommend acropora not that you can't so it just it's very hard on tanks smaller then 55 gallons due to easy swings in parameters causing easy bleaching so I'd stic...
If i have fritzyme turbo start 900 to my 30 gallon tank with fish and nem in it will it hurt anything in the tank because I am adding the bottle to the rocks that I wanna soak to add to my tank, so do I really need a pour the rest of the remaining bottle in my tank if I’m having the rock soak in it because I’m trying to add rocks to my tank
Any tips to start a Copepods Culture?
Hi new to marine. Just added fish. Corals coming thursday. Natural seawater used supplied by naturalseawatersuppliers.co.uk. just wanted to say hi. Not sure how many people on this app.
Follow up to last question. I have a kleins butterfly in the 55, seems small for him but he’s been there for about two months and seems happy. I wasn’t aware that butterflies love to nip at corals. I currently have no corals in the tank, but want to add them soon once the parameters are where I’m comfortable with. What are some corals that would go well in the 55 without the Klein potentially nipping at them. I really like soft corals, but I’m unsure with the butterfly. What are some recommendations?