Sunday, January 15, 2012

Reef Tank Question?

OK! I am limited and a little old school on reef tanks. I had one about 8 years ago and dream of another one. I do remember alot but your 'numbers' don't mean anything to me - ha- sorry! I'm going with your measurments 36-12-12 that your tank is 75-100 gallon. I can't remember anything about the PH levels but pretty sure "gravity" has nothing to do with it. Heres what I DO KNOW - Your rocks should be live rock for a reef tank and you should have real coral, not artificial. As far as your fish, you should never have that many clownfish in any tank - it is not the ocean. Good you have anenome but should have a variety of 3 not the same 3. Your starfish and your sea apple may look cool and they are beautiful but they will destroy your tank. Your tank is totally overstocked and with alot of the wrong species. 2 clownfish, keep your Coral Beauty, get 1 or 3 Tangs of any type - Tangs have to stay in odd numbers - never pairs - 1 Yellow Tang is good for your tank. Keep your Mandarin, (I called mine paisley) but only 1 Mandarin no matter how big the tank. Your Mandarin will dissapear into the live rock for days, they love it. Get rid of the shrimp, they're almost as bad as the starfish and apple. You can add a little color with the less expensive Domino Damsel and the Royal Gamma, they are very hearty also. Huge mistake I made ------ don't add a lion or panther fish because of their beauty. They will eat your clownfish! Even if the clownfish is bigger than them! Wow, I almost hope this is like some type of test and I ped. If you really do need the help, I hope I helped a little and wish you the best of luck. A reef tank is constant work - I had a 75 gallon and learned that the bigger the easier with saltwater. I'm hoping to get into another real soon (I've been saying that for a year) I think 100-125 is probably a good size and may be easier to control the PH, salinity, etc. . But very expensive "hobby". Oh -also I don't know how your filter is - I had the filtering system that went down under the tank to a 20 gallon tank. Lot's of hoses and pipes and charcoal... anyway Good luck! Please mail me with anything that you know I said as being "rusty" or wrong. I need all the tips I can get on this subject. I'm in the market for a new tank.

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