Fish or Corals?

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Todd

Some (if not all - not too sure) urchins eat Coraline, thus you may be waiting a long time for it to develop.

Do you have the lights for SPS? I would not suggest it as a beginner coral, difficult to keep particularly with summer heat coming. Personally I would add only one chromis now (as they can get territorial as they get bigger), and the hammer. The best of both worlds - just watch your water quality, which shouldn't be a problem as it is still a low bioload.

Yes, adding the urchin may have been premature. I will keep an eye on him, I think he has been grazing on algae so far not sure about the coraline.

Lighting includes 2 X 25W actinics and 1 X 150W hallide plus LED moonlights. So I think I can go for SPS and clams eventually.

OK so maybe I should go back to my original plan which was to slowly stock up corals before adding fish. Since I have a small tank any stingers need to be separated from the rest of the corals.

Thoughts?