chars
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Hi all! I'm new to this board, but I've been lurking a bit and see that you all are so very nice and helpful and do not treat anyone like an idiot!! I'm new to saltwater and have some questions, so please don't flame me for lack of knowledge! I've been doing some research, but can't seem to find a conclusive answer to either of these things. I have a 55 gallon tank that is cycled.
Question 1: On one of my pieces of live rock, some of the hitchhikers I have are Spionids polychaete (identified in the hitchhiker thread here). I know it says they are benefiticial, but they are numerous and my hermits are ignoring them. Should I worry? Do I need to do anything to take their numbers down? They are no where near taking over the rock or anything.
Question 2: This tank is my 9 year old son's, and we are doing our best to recreate the tank in Finding Nemo. Through lots and lots of research, I know that most of the fish in that tank are not only incompatible, but are too large for our 55 gallon. So, our stocking plan is as follows:
3 chromis (already in the tank)
2 oscellaris clownfish (in quarantine)
1 royal gramma basslet (from movie)
1 firefish
1 sea star (from movie) (ended up with 3 hitchhikers on lr)
1 cleaner shrimp (from movie)
clean-up crew (already in the tank)
Now, my question is, we would like to get a yellow tang (from movie). I have been reading conflicting info about whether the tang is ok for our size tank or not. I have also seen several pics of 55 gal tanks that have yellow tangs on different message boards. I don't want to do anything that is bad for a fish, of course! If the yellow tang is not going to work for our tank, we were looking at bangaii cardinalfish. Which involves yet another question, because I was originally told we could house 4, but I have now been told that we can have no more than 2 because they are very territorial with their own kind.
Anyway, thanks in advance for any help and advice and I really love this board and hope that I can make this a "home"!
Question 1: On one of my pieces of live rock, some of the hitchhikers I have are Spionids polychaete (identified in the hitchhiker thread here). I know it says they are benefiticial, but they are numerous and my hermits are ignoring them. Should I worry? Do I need to do anything to take their numbers down? They are no where near taking over the rock or anything.
Question 2: This tank is my 9 year old son's, and we are doing our best to recreate the tank in Finding Nemo. Through lots and lots of research, I know that most of the fish in that tank are not only incompatible, but are too large for our 55 gallon. So, our stocking plan is as follows:
3 chromis (already in the tank)
2 oscellaris clownfish (in quarantine)
1 royal gramma basslet (from movie)
1 firefish
1 sea star (from movie) (ended up with 3 hitchhikers on lr)
1 cleaner shrimp (from movie)
clean-up crew (already in the tank)
Now, my question is, we would like to get a yellow tang (from movie). I have been reading conflicting info about whether the tang is ok for our size tank or not. I have also seen several pics of 55 gal tanks that have yellow tangs on different message boards. I don't want to do anything that is bad for a fish, of course! If the yellow tang is not going to work for our tank, we were looking at bangaii cardinalfish. Which involves yet another question, because I was originally told we could house 4, but I have now been told that we can have no more than 2 because they are very territorial with their own kind.
Anyway, thanks in advance for any help and advice and I really love this board and hope that I can make this a "home"!