Any Help Is Welcome.. Got A Few Questions

[meso81]

I manage a 55gal Salt tank...

Question 1 - *but have a 12gal eclipse tank lying around set up for salt water that I want to start doing things with..
I want to go a little more towards like predatory , something that I cant normally do with my 55gal tank.
would a small fu manchu lion be out of the question, even if it had a protien skimmer?
What would you guys recommend?


Question 2- I am ordering 50 pounds of live cured rock for my 55gal.. I want to turn it into a reef tank..
I have a protien skimmer,canister filter, ro-filter I was thinking on getting a uv sterilizer and a osillating power head ?what other devices would you recommend? and please tell me why so I may
expand my knowledge..

Thank you to all that take the time to reply..

-Meso

 

[meso81]

Oh and one more thing.. What type of affordable lighting would you reccomend for this 55gal reef aquarium?
and what type of substrate would you recommned for my 55? I have gravel in there now.. SHould I switch to sand.crushed coral?


thank you

 

[SkiFletch]

Switch to Aragonite sand while you can, gravel and crushed coral are not suitable for marine setups. A suitable "affordable" lighting fixture would be a 4' long Power Compact (PC) fixture. It will somewhat limit you in what corals you can keep (no clams/nems/sps) but will still allow you for a wide range of softies and LPS.

Where do you want to put this lionfish?

 

[meso81]

Switch to Aragonite sand while you can, gravel and crushed coral are not suitable for marine setups. A suitable "affordable" lighting fixture would be a 4' long Power Compact (PC) fixture. It will somewhat limit you in what corals you can keep (no clams/nems/sps) but will still allow you for a wide range of softies and LPS.

Where do you want to put this lionfish?

I was wondering if a small fu manchu lion would be ok in that 12gal eclipse marine tank....?

thank you for all your suggestions..

 

[steelhealr]

No to the lionfish in 12G. SH

 

[meso81]

No to the lionfish in 12G. SH

ok thanks maybe ill will use it for treating fish... or mating clowns..or does anyone else have any other suggestions on a species I could use this 12gal for..something I normally couldnt keep in my 55gal reef tank?


Thank you

 

[Mr Miagi]

If you wanted predatory, you probably should have done that with the 55, and not the 12g. LOL. A Fumanchu lion wouldnt do well in a 12g, way too small. Im stumped as to what predatory fish you could add, but theres certainly a few different biotopes you could create, separate from a reef. Rubble zone, Planted SW tank, Prop system, a specific coral tank....PistolShrimp / Gopby pair, Shrimp....

 

[dixaisy930]

You could put a clown goby in there....mine THINKS she's a mean, predatory lionfish when she's "attacking" the flake food.....