So, for the past little while (approx. 6months) my father and I have had a beautiful reef that's been giving us trouble at random points, usually we're able to solve the problem with the help from you guys on here and our marine specialist we buy our stock from.
from this,
to this,
and now the only things we have left are 3 leather corals, half a peral bubble coral, a sponge coral, and about half of our gondioporus.
We've decided to change the tank to FWLRO now instead of the corals, we're hoping to get some larger fish as the tank is 72gallons. We'd like Lion fish, and mabye a frog fish, and some other things. But the stock hasn't even been discussed with my father as he's leaving that part to me.
I'd like to have the following:
3x Dwarf lion fish or 2x Lionfish (regular ones)
1X frog fish or possibly a stone fish (I know poisionus)
and I don't even know what else.
What other kinds of fish could go with Lion fish and predatory fish but will fit into a 72gallon bowfront tank??
The current stock is as follows:
2x Clown fish
1x Velvet blue damsal
2x Purple firefish goby
1x Firefish goby
1x Yellow tang
1x Coral Beauty
The only fish from the original stock my dad wants to keep are the gobys and clown fish, possibly the yellow tang if we get a large enough seperate tank.
I'm trying to convience him to get a small, 24gallon bio-cube that's fully set-up with skimmer and lighting for corals, that way we don't have to sell the remaining corals we have and we can just transfer them into the other tank with drip aclimation. As with the fish the same thing would happen.
Now, in regards to transfering, we're planning on in the next tank to have RO water, currently we do not, which is my guess as to why the corals are dying on us. The fish are fine, but not the corals. Now, back to the question at hand here, would it be wise to use the water from the tank currently in the new 24gallon bio-cube, then slowly as we change the water weekly or biweekly use the RO water instead of regular water? We'd be mixing the batches of RO water a minimum of 24hours in advance, if not 3-5days.
I really hate to say this, but I am starting to dislike reef tanks
probably cuz I just got off on the wrong foot, but we're moving in a year and my dad wants a BIG saltwater reef tank at our new house with sump filter, skimmers, RO and the whole shabang. Hopfully by that time we'll have sorted our problems and we'll just take it slow and hopfully the tank will work out.
Any tips would be greatly appriciated as I am only about 7months into the saltwater aquarium hobby, but 10 years into the aquarium hobby itself.
from this,
to this,
and now the only things we have left are 3 leather corals, half a peral bubble coral, a sponge coral, and about half of our gondioporus.
We've decided to change the tank to FWLRO now instead of the corals, we're hoping to get some larger fish as the tank is 72gallons. We'd like Lion fish, and mabye a frog fish, and some other things. But the stock hasn't even been discussed with my father as he's leaving that part to me.
I'd like to have the following:
3x Dwarf lion fish or 2x Lionfish (regular ones)
1X frog fish or possibly a stone fish (I know poisionus)
and I don't even know what else.
What other kinds of fish could go with Lion fish and predatory fish but will fit into a 72gallon bowfront tank??
The current stock is as follows:
2x Clown fish
1x Velvet blue damsal
2x Purple firefish goby
1x Firefish goby
1x Yellow tang
1x Coral Beauty
The only fish from the original stock my dad wants to keep are the gobys and clown fish, possibly the yellow tang if we get a large enough seperate tank.
I'm trying to convience him to get a small, 24gallon bio-cube that's fully set-up with skimmer and lighting for corals, that way we don't have to sell the remaining corals we have and we can just transfer them into the other tank with drip aclimation. As with the fish the same thing would happen.
Now, in regards to transfering, we're planning on in the next tank to have RO water, currently we do not, which is my guess as to why the corals are dying on us. The fish are fine, but not the corals. Now, back to the question at hand here, would it be wise to use the water from the tank currently in the new 24gallon bio-cube, then slowly as we change the water weekly or biweekly use the RO water instead of regular water? We'd be mixing the batches of RO water a minimum of 24hours in advance, if not 3-5days.
I really hate to say this, but I am starting to dislike reef tanks
probably cuz I just got off on the wrong foot, but we're moving in a year and my dad wants a BIG saltwater reef tank at our new house with sump filter, skimmers, RO and the whole shabang. Hopfully by that time we'll have sorted our problems and we'll just take it slow and hopfully the tank will work out.Any tips would be greatly appriciated as I am only about 7months into the saltwater aquarium hobby, but 10 years into the aquarium hobby itself.
