40g Reef

[thrankall]

What lighting, filter, corals, fish, and invertabrtes would you recommend for my 55g? Yes I have decided to get corals for this tank.

 

[Callum]

a couple of yellow tangs look nice and take care of algae for you. lighting if you have the budget either metal halides or T5 pc's. cleaner shrimp look nice but i dont know if there any good with corals .

 

[thrankall]

a couple of yellow tangs look nice and take care of algae for you. lighting if you have the budget either metal halides or T5 pc's. cleaner shrimp look nice but i dont know if there any good with corals .

Hmm I plan to get a yellow tang but I only want 1 yellow tang. What else would be caompatible with it? Maybe a hardier species of butterfly fish?

 

[thrankall]

As it turns out a yellow tang will outgrow a 55g So I have come up with a stocking plan. 1 coral beauty or lemonpeel angelfish, a pair of occellaris clownfish, 1 sixline wrasse, 1 wheelers watchman goby,and 1 royal gramma. Could this work and are all these fish reef safe? For corals I really dont know much about them but I would like leather and mushroom and polyp corals. For lighting I will see what my LFS has to offer. And for filtration I am thinking of a canister filter is this good?

 

[Callum]

external cannisters are ok but for best just get a lot of live rock and a protein skimmer. Also i read somewhere that nitrates can build up in some filters increasing them.

 

[callum_parsons]

As it turns out a yellow tang will outgrow a 55g So I have come up with a stocking plan. 1 coral beauty or lemonpeel angelfish,

the lemonpeel DA is the less safe in reef tanks they tend to nip at polyps. but they are very pretty along with bi-colours
i think coral beautys are one of the more safe reef species along with eibl's

 

[Chac]

a couple of yellow tangs look nice and take care of algae for you. lighting if you have the budget either metal halides or T5 pc's. cleaner shrimp look nice but i dont know if there any good with corals .

Even 1 YT is unsuitable for a tank that size, nevermind 2, also keeping 2 YT's aint a good idea, they are best kept either as singles of in odd number shouls

As Callum says Lemonpeels are a bit risky with corals it depends on the induvidual fish personality, you may get lucky

I have also heard of Coral Beauty's that have devestated a reef tank, but I have had a SB for years that has never touched any of my corals (Saofties, SPS or LPS)

 

[thrankall]

a couple of yellow tangs look nice and take care of algae for you. lighting if you have the budget either metal halides or T5 pc's. cleaner shrimp look nice but i dont know if there any good with corals .

Even 1 YT is unsuitable for a tank that size, nevermind 2, also keeping 2 YT's aint a good idea, they are best kept either as singles of in odd number shouls

As Callum says Lemonpeels are a bit risky with corals it depends on the induvidual fish personality, you may get lucky

I have also heard of Coral Beauty's that have devestated a reef tank, but I have had a SB for years that has never touched any of my corals (Saofties, SPS or LPS)

What would you or anyone recommend in place of a DA?

 

[thrankall]

Wait instead of a Dwarf angel would a red head solon fairy wrasse work?

 

[thrankall]

I really want a tang so I think ill spend more money on a 72gallon what tangs could fit in there?

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

I think a leopard wrasse would be nice replacement for a DA

 

[Chac]

A Yellow or Cheveron Tang (2 of my fav fish) would be be fine in your 72g

 

[SkiFletch]

Oh man, I love my solorensis wrasse , highly reccomend that fish.

 

[thrankall]

A Yellow or Cheveron Tang (2 of my fav fish) would be be fine in your 72g

I really like chevron tang Probably my favorite! are they as hardy as a yellow tang though?

 

[thrankall]

Actually I found a 100 gallon tank with lights and hood for $150 so ill just get that