metalac's first reef

[cindre2000]

You should easily be able to keep most any photosynthetic creature in your tank. Just be careful about aclimating any new critters or you will bleach them with the change in light (I recently did this with some stylophora and montipora).

Oh yeah, those turbo's are bulldozers and nocturnal.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure a couple of clowns would be fine in a tank this size. I'd probably avoid trying to have more than one pair (to avoid fighting), but otherwise clowns are one of the best fish for smaller tanks (they stick to the vicinity of an anemone in the wild, so are used to not roaming far).

Unless I'm misunderstanding and this conversation is about clown tangs. :?

 

[metalac]

I'm pretty sure a couple of clowns would be fine in a tank this size. I'd probably avoid trying to have more than one pair (to avoid fighting), but otherwise clowns are one of the best fish for smaller tanks (they stick to the vicinity of an anemone in the wild, so are used to not roaming far).

Unless I'm misunderstanding and this conversation is about clown tangs. :?

yeah i wasn't planning to have more than 2 anyways. I'm i'm probably going to get the green bubble anemone for them.

Right now I have a problem with some green algae, it looks almost exactly like skinny grass and it looks kind of pretty when you look at it move in the flow, but I'd like to get rid of it and the damn snails aren't cutting it . Maybe they need more time. Unfortunately for the aquarium, and fortunately for me, I'm headed for a 2.5 week vacation on Thursday, so I think I'll do a one more water change, clean the algae myself and make sure all the params are ok and then head out. Hopefully when I come back nothing will be in horrible condition.

 

[Anonymous]

Not a problem getting the clowns at a reasonably early stage, but wait to get the anemone until the tank is well settled. Leave at least 6 months and when you get one, invest in an auto top-up device, so the salinity doesn't fluctuate with evaporation. Keeping tank parameters stable is one of the key tricks to succeding with an anemone.

 

[metalac]

Not a problem getting the clowns at a reasonably early stage, but wait to get the anemone until the tank is well settled. Leave at least 6 months and when you get one, invest in an auto top-up device, so the salinity doesn't fluctuate with evaporation. Keeping tank parameters stable is one of the key tricks to succeding with an anemone.

I didn't know that about the anemone, thanks for the info. Yeah I'll definitely have the clowns first before anything else, I hope that bunch of caves in the rocks would be good enough protection for them, so they won't freak out .

 

[Anonymous]

Not a problem getting the clowns at a reasonably early stage, but wait to get the anemone until the tank is well settled. Leave at least 6 months and when you get one, invest in an auto top-up device, so the salinity doesn't fluctuate with evaporation. Keeping tank parameters stable is one of the key tricks to succeding with an anemone.

I didn't know that about the anemone, thanks for the info. Yeah I'll definitely have the clowns first before anything else, I hope that bunch of caves in the rocks would be good enough protection for them, so they won't freak out .

Clowns can manage quite well without an anemone. They'll find something else to call home (they've been known to adopt powerheads! Though leather corals are more common surrogates...).