My little agressive reef

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My 30gal agressive reef has just turned one year old. For the first 6 months, it's been the home of my fuzzy dward lion, then for the last six months 2 clown fish joined Fuzzy. Amazing that my lion didn't eat the male clown yet but they all get along great. I know... not much of a reef but it's the only coral I can keep with my lighting.

The tank has a HOB filter and an AquaC skimmer. Weekly water changes of 5gal and the Nitrates stay under 10.
 
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This one is. I have tiny hermit crabs in there, tiny nassarius snails, he never ate any inverts. Other than the time I put a peppermint shrimp in... that only lasted a few hours.
 
doggiepuffer

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LOL. I have a Zebra, and thus far <knock on wood> he has completely ignored my my peppermint shrimps.. but it is only 21 days til I get my 90g tank and 5 months until I get my 180g
 
lion_crazz

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Awesome looking nano reef tank!
I have a fuzzy dwarf in my reef tank with snails, crabs, and even a cleaner and coral banded shrimp. He does not bother anyone at all.
 
jackri

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Lions can be reef safe.... meaning coral reef safe... not inverts or other little fishies

I've thought about adding one fish to a 90 gallon frag tank and I do like lions... but if my hands are going to be in there fragging I don't need a lion to watch out for.. plus a tang would be a good grazer.... ahh but I still like lions
 
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Originally Posted by DoggiePuffer
http:///forum/post/2885606
Would a fuzzy and zebra be ok in the same tank?? I love the tank, -- is that pulsing Xenia in the middle of it??
Yep, it's a pulsing Xenia, grows like crazy. Now it's strating to grow on the sand. There's also a different pulsing xenia that's growing behind the star polyps, that I didn't put there myself. It must have come on the rock and it just started getting bigger.
 
hammerhed7

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nice looking tank
thats the way to go in my opinion if your working with 40 gallons or less, I would like to do a frog fish reef sometime. Lion looks great.
 
doggiepuffer

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My Zebra Dwarf and Snowflake leave the cleaner shrimp alone... frequent visting the cleaning station. Even some of the most aggressive fish will recognize a cleaner type as a benefical creature, at least that is what all the research has said. However, the only shrimp i have in the tank are cleaners.
 
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Yeah, I never tried cleaner shrimp in this tank. Just peppermint because I wanted to get rid of aiptasia anemones. Too bad that didn't work out because I'm having a constant battle with these things. I kill them with Aiptasia-X, then 2 weeks later others pop up.
 
hypancistrus

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I really like the way this tank looks. It's a very nice combination of colors. I just lost my little mini-reef to an accidental loss of heat (unplugged the heater and missed it-- lost all corals) so I'm now working on my 50 gallon. I'm hoping to set it up with a dwarf lion and a moray eel. I see that your lion is hanging on the side glass-- does he always stay there? Or does he have other sections he prefers?
 
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Usually he hangs on the side of the rock with all the green star polyps. That's his spot. Sometimes he hangs under that rock too and when he wants to annoy the clownfish, he hangs right on top of their spot, looking at them.
 
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