Now I am selling my Tank (fresh water setup)

[Cap'n]

[kuatto]

starting to sound like RC with all the comments.Lets see if he wants to do things right and maybe steer him in the right direction.
JMHO.

[Aquattro]

Yes, this thread is going a bit towards personal attack. Let's try to relax a bit.
Doo-e, please read thru this thread a couple of times and try to take it as constructive criticism. Most of these comments are aimed at helping you help yourself. Try not to change your mind more than once a day, develop a plan, and stick to it.
People will only give you advice here as long as they think you're taking it.

[DOO-E]

Well here is what i have decided. I put everything in my 25 with a 3" sand bed (clown died) no more fish just snail for algea. I attatched a 24 inch 55 watt pc and a 18 inch Marine glow. Put all the rock in there along with the mushrooms, GSP's and dusters. Placed the canaster filter on there as well. I am going to drain my 40, And clean out the remainding sand. Around 20 pounds. Then I am going to build from there. A side cabinet with a sump that is fed with a 300 GPH pump with then flows back into the tank. For current 2 250GPH powerheads. I am going to load that tank up with 50 LBS of LR (mainly FIJI) then let it run for a week. Start adding back the LS. After a 3 week period place the Rock back in there, and after a couple weeks start placing the corals in there. Then maybe after another 3 weeks i will think about 3 ocellaris clowns. O forgot After the rock is added but before the fish i will get my clean up crew in there. Not sure what do put in for clean up yet any sugestions. Here will be my tank list In Order to the way It will Be added to the tank..
3 Ocellaris Clownfish
2 yellow nose Gobies
2 Peppermint Shrimp
1 Cleaner Shrimp
2 Hawiian Fether Disuters.
Assorted Mushroom
I think this will be it other than addin the odd mushroom. Maybe a couple weeks after the clowns are added i might put a hammer or frogspawn in there. For Filtration it willbe mainly LR and a Skimmer I am getting one from Dez this summer. Lighting will be 150 watt MH with 2 30 watt actinic.

[DOO-E]

Second thing. I totaly forgot and should have done more thinking but I addd my Coral Beauty with no Quarantine. Stupid me. I think that once the 40 is up I will run my 25 as a quarintine tank. It is a good size for just about anything and most of the fish i want dont get over 5 inches.

[DOO-E]

PS TANGOMAN doesnt want the tank. He was joking around.

[mr_alberta]

Hey Doo-E,

I think you need to look up the behaviors of the animals before buying any of them. For example, Clownfish will not generally tolerate being in 3's. Once the two dominate ones pair up, there is a high possibility that they will kill off the 3rd.

Also, you have a lot of burrowing animals for such a small tank. You will most likely see aggression issues. If I were you, I would take you list of fish (all 10), cut that in half (to 5) then cut the remaining list down to 4.

I would also rethink about the Pistol. I have had one and they dig...everywhere...all the time. You will never see it (only hear it) and you will need to support your rockwork somehow. My Pistol has collasped my rockwork several times.

[Delphinus]

I'd also steer away from having 3 jawfish in that tank. Actually, I'd think very carefully about jawfish because they stress very easily. They need at least 6" of sand for their burror, they need to be able to see 260 degrees around their burrow. Without these conditions, they may do OK for a little while but they're stressed. Also, except for mated pairs, it's probably best not to have more than one anyhow, because they don't really tolerate others of their own kind. Oh, and they're jumpers too, so watch out for that.

[DOO-E]

Where do you get 3 Jaws from? I am getting one jaw well maybe not. 2 gobies three ocellaris clowns will live together according to Clownfish by Joyce D. Wilkerson. If I do get aggression issue i have a back up tank. Maybe i will just keep the clowns for now. Do oyu think i can keep 3 little ones in a 25 gallon until the end of August or will i have problems. I plan on doing weekly water changes instead of Bi weekly water changes like i was doing with the 40. So do you think this will be okay? Sorry I see where u get 3 jaws from sorry i will fix it it is actually 2 yellownose gobies. Changed the list also

[Delphinus]

Although I see it's edited out now, in your list you had mentioned 2 jaws and a yellow-headed jawfish or something like that. That's where I had gotten the 3 jawfish from.

Just passing along my experience with those fish ... wasn't trying to pound on you. I like jawfish too, but I doubt I'd try another anytime soon. And if I did, it would be a more dedicated setup just for jawfish. In some ways I miss having a jawfish because they are pretty to look at, but in some ways I don't miss having one because it's just one less thing for me to constantly worry about whether he's stressed or not. In the end, in this hobby there's no shortage of things to be worried about.