I’ve got two questions.. one, I can’t get any good pictures of my tank because the light interferes with my camera.. Any fixes to this?? Two is stock.. I have a 55G long aquarium with a 20G sump. I currently have as follows
X2 clowns
X2 blue/green chromis
X1 Royal Gramma
X1 Coral Beauty
And a few inverts (snails, emerald crabs, and pistol shrimp, couple corals)
I am going to get a green mandarin at some point in the near future once I can successfully supply its dietary needs. And a yellow watchman if I can ever keep them from getting into the sump 🙄… I want to add maybe a fire fish or 2 bangaii and be done! Is that way too much? All my current fish are happy and the CB just got out of QT and loves the tank! What do yall think?
Help me plan my tank upgrade. The tank is an 85l Peninsula. List of things I need help with below
Additional livestock
Corals
Rockwork
Coral placement
Inverts
A good mantra for everyone who got their first tank for Christmas. Rushing to get too many fish doesn't allow your bacteria time to establish. Rushing to get corals before you've learned how to manage your water quality will cause coral problems. Rushing to buy loads of equipment means you might spend money you didn't need to or on gear that isn't right for you. Go slow, be patient, research, research research.
So I’ve got a question.. I have a 55 gallon saltwater aquarium with 20 gallon sump. I neglected the tank for about a two month time frame due to circumstances (not proud of it).. been trying to get it back up and running like it used to. I have 2 clownfish, a royal gramma, coral beauty, 2 chromis, and a Kleins butterfly. My cleanup crew was awful before with only two turbo snails and two emerald crabs. The two turbo snails are no longer in the tank. Would 2 trochas, 3 cerith, 2 nassarius, 2 dwarf hermits, and a cleaner shrimp be a sufficient cleanup crew? That’s with the two emerald crabs already there. And potentially a lawnmower blenny at some point
What’s a reasonable amount of corals you can fit in a nano reef tank? Mine is 16g. Trying to figure out my max. Gonna have two mocha gladiator clowns in here tomorrow
Hey everyone,
I’ve been slowly building up my 125-gallon reef tank and I’d love to hear some insights from the community on what additions could best complement my current setup. I’m open to ideas on fish, inverts, or corals — and I’d especially appreciate suggestions on specific species or even recommended numbers/quantities to add.
Thank you for the support Reefers!
I am building a 120g mixed reef tank with a 40 gallon sump. After watching videos on stocking a tank I have compiled a list of fish. Please let me know what your thoughts are and an order to adding them if you have ideas. Thanks!
2 Tangs (zebrasoma and a bristle tooth)
1 Rabbitface (fox face)
1 coral Beauty
2 clowns (ocellaris)
2 Mandarins
2 Firefish
1 Midas blenny
1 clown Gobi
2 Shrimp gobies
1 Starry blenny
1 flame hawkfish
Let me know what you think, thanks again!
I’ve got two questions.. one, I can’t get any good pictures of my tank because the light interferes with my camera.. Any fixes to this?? Two is stock.. I have a 55G long aquarium with a 20G sump. I currently have as follows
X2 clowns
X2 blue/green chromis
X1 Royal Gramma
X1 Coral Beauty
And a few inverts (snails, emerald crabs, and pistol shrimp, couple corals)
I am going to get a green mandarin at some point in the near future once I can successfully supply its dietary needs. And a yellow watchman if I can ever keep them from getting into the sump 🙄… I want to add maybe a fire fish or 2 bangaii and be done! Is that way too much? All my current fish are happy and the CB just got out of QT and loves the tank! What do yall think?
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
So I added my Fritz turbo to by 20gal it’s been running for 2and half weeks have a pair of clowns, and a neon dottyback for fish, 2 bumble bea snails and a nassarius snail for inverts. And lastly one acan coral, green clove polyp, and a frag of zoas, for coral. everything is doing but wondering when I can start having some hammer,torch,and frogspawn.
I'm setting up a new 30 gallon fish and reef tank. Would like to know where you recommend purchasing my first fish from, probably a website. I plan to wait a few months to add Coral.
My main thing is without fish or many corals, there’s too many open spaces in the rocks and what to look at? But yet people say not to rush to stock it.