45 G Bedroom tank ..... Pics April 28

JDigital · #1 10-24-2009, 02:06 AM

Awesome rockscaping man! Looks like Pygmy Angel territory to me.. haha And wrasses!

ElGuappo · #2 10-24-2009, 04:23 AM

YA I put a dp on some hawaiian flame wrasse today. still cant decide on an angel tho. those multicolors at rc are sweet, however blew my load on the wrasse. thinking eibli or coral beauty. maybe a rusty. as far as angels go.

lorenz0 · #3 10-26-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ElGuappo

YA I put a dp on some hawaiian flame wrasse today. still cant decide on an angel tho. those multicolors at rc are sweet, however blew my load on the wrasse. thinking eibli or coral beauty. maybe a rusty. as far as angels go.

potters, ummm you know you wanna

md14 · #4 10-27-2009, 04:52 AM

I got an Eibli angel, and its been great so that takes my vote

ElGuappo · #5 10-27-2009, 07:30 AM

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potters, ummm you know you wanna

Just lost a potters in my ich issue (the reason this tank is being restarted, it was only 2 monthes old. consited of 2 smaller tanks i transferred into it after i moved). and had an eibli in my rsm (think my arrow crab speared it). both were money.

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I got an Eibli angel, and its been great so that takes my vote

ElGuappo · #6 10-28-2009, 11:40 PM

Just wondering if coming up with a stocking list in advance could be any harder. may have to just stock by impulse shopping.

I will putting 3 hawaiian flame wrasse in for sure and then i am at a loss. i want a pygmy angel either potters, nox, bluefin or half black. after that i am not really to sure. what i am most unsure of is the amount of fish this tank will hold.

i am thinking of 1-3 zebra gobys a neon goby for cleaning, tail spot blenny and lantern bass. what are your thoughts?

JDigital · #7 10-29-2009, 01:12 AM

Sounds like a lot to me... 10 in a 45G... 3 of them wrasses, and most likely an angel that will be a mini poop machine... I feel 5 in my 30G is too many (2clowns, 1 Coral Beauty, 1 6line Wrasse, 1 Twinspot hogfish)... minimal inverts 6-7 snails, no crabs, 1 cleaner shrimp..

What was the skimmer again? That might be the difference, as I am running skimmerless right now.

ElGuappo · #8 10-29-2009, 04:48 AM

ya thats what i was thinking but its only 7 if i loose the gobies. all angels should be around 4" mature not 6" like some others.

all thats making an appearance for sure at this point are the 3 wrasse. from there definity an angel, then i am not sure. wouldnt mind going small to get the count up one or 2. just looking for some open water swimmers. also considering a signal goby for sandsifting. this is what i mean, narrowing the list down is impossible.

neon goby is a .5G pico fish so i hardly count that in the equasion. and the bass and blenny are smaller than most in the species.

what i am looking for is some good small fish suggestions that are not damses and chromis. thinking ome clown gobies but i have heard they like to eat sps.

skimmer is a ESHOPPS PSK 75H. supposed to be good upto 75. i figure the additional 50% capacity is not bad. since most vendors rate their skimmers too high. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZL2J...layer_embedded

ElGuappo · #9 10-27-2009, 07:23 AM

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Awesome rockscaping man! Looks like Pygmy Angel territory to me.. haha And wrasses!

I should add it was mostly intended for inverts. i like to keep thing off the sand as much as possible, so that i have no dead areas in the sand bed. for instance there is more space for my SS star and some nass snails. also lots of different spots for cleaner shrimp to set up shop. since i can only fit 4 x 54 w over this i wanted to get some shelf space closer to the surface. the center collum and the piece on the right both nearly touch the glass. made sure i could get the mag float by before i finalized.