Questions About Coral/urchins/sea Fans Etc....

[WayneVT08]

I wanted to know which urchin isn't poisonous and can be kept in a 75 gallon tank?

What about sea fans? What do they need to thrive?

And CLAMS

What all do they need?

thanks in advance.

 

[Musho3210]

what type of clam? Im guessing giant clams (tridacna or however you sell it), if so, crocea, maxima, or derasa?

 

[Filmoholic]

Clams = Good Lighting

 

[SkiFletch]

Do keep in mind, urchins WILL eat coraline algae, so don't plan on keeping that...

 

[WayneVT08]

I've seen maxima clams at my LFS, so I guess those.

Urchins are gonna be much farther down the road.

I'm also going to be buying a 75 gallon tank, so I'm selling the 55. The tank doesn't come with pumps/powerheads. So Im going to need to buy them, which ones shall I buy?

 

[SkiFletch]

I'd look into Koralia 3 and 4

 

[Musho3210]

look into tunze stream with the controller, very expensive but very cool. Or look into tunze wave-box. Koralias are good but they dont have a specific wave type controller for them, the seio controller works with the koralia but it voids the warranty on the controller.

Controller: http/www.aquacave.com/detail.aspx?ID=671
Pump: http/www.aquacave.com/detail.aspx?ID=663


Wavebox: http/www.aquacave.com/detail.aspx?ID=677

With your return pump from your sump you may want this: http/www.aquacave.com/detail.aspx?ID=255


If you cant afford the controller for the tunze, i would just buy the pump by its self and get the controller when you have enough cash.

Andy could help you a bit more, hes a tunze fanatic, wonder where he has been.....


If you dont want to pay that much try this controller with a seio 1500 or something
http/www.aquacave.com/detail.aspx?ID=1135

 

[SkiFletch]

I'll also advise going with redundancy... Never have just one powerhead in your tank. The last thing you want is for the only circulation pump in your tank to fail and cause a crash.