Coral adding

[claire7275]

I know there are limits to the number of fish you should add to a tank at one time, but what about coral? The number of fish add to the bioload, but do corals?
I have 90g that I set up on April 13th and justed added a percula and a sea hare (bought established live rock that had some hair algae). What else should I be adding at this point?
pH--8.3
Amm--0
Trites--0
Trates--20 (just bought a skimmer and added a bag of carbon to sump)
Want to go on a shopping spree (about 3hrs from home)for my birthday in late May--Corals, corals,corals!!!!!
Thanks for any advice!!
Claire

 

[teen]

you should have a clean up crew consisting of snails, shrimp, crabs, or something of that nature.
as for the corals. i wouldnt add more than 3 at a time, unless there small frags. if there something big like frogspawn, brain, bubble coral, i would only add a few of them. considering your tank is still relatively new, you wouldn't want to purchase $200 worth of corals and have them all die. start slowly with one or two, if they do good, add another one or two in a month or so.

 

[claire7275]

Thanks for for advice. I have a 24 gallon aquapod also that has been running for a while (with several corals in it--all doing well. I plan on buying mostly frags, but I do like some of the larger leathers. I actually thought about moving the corals from the smaller tank into the larger tank and using the smaller tank as more of a QT. What do you think?
Thanks,
Claire

 

[farslayer]

I wouldn't waste an aquapod for a QT, get a ten gallon. If you don't want the aquapod, I'd buy it As for total corals, there really isn't a limit, as long as they don't touch (the ones which sting) and as long as you maintain your water chemistry, meaning don't let your pH swing and keep your calcium up, nitrates down.

 

[claire7275]

Thanks Farslayer--when I'm ready to let the Aquapod go--I'll look you up. For now its still very nice to look at in my room. Thanks for the info!!!!!
Claire

 

[farslayer]

No prob, when you're ready to let it go, give me an email, farslayer 9 at yahoo dot com.
Good luck!