40gallon
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Hey everyone, I have a 40 Gallon acrylic tank that's 36wx15xhx15d, I have had this tank running FOWLR for around 1.5 years, the only equipment I had was a standard hood with a regular light, an aquaclear 40-70 Gallon hang on filter and a Koralia 3 powerhead. I have around 30lbs of LR and around 1.5-2" of live sand.
In the tank I had a Foxface, 2 Percula Clowns, a sixline wrasse, a flamehawk, a clown goby and a pair of firefish gobys. For invertabrates I have a camelback shrimp, a fire shrimp, an emerald crab and various snails and hermits. The tank ran like this for a long time, I did biweekly water changes and never had my nitrates above 20ish. All other levels were in check.
For whatever reason all of my fish died within a couple of hours starting with the foxface, the only thing that survived was the clown goby, the shrimps and the crabs and the snails.
I decided I wanted to upgrade my filtration, lighting and other stuff so I could setup a reef tank. I've since purchased a JBJ Reaction 45, an AquaC Remora 1200 Skimmer and an Aquaticlife 36" T5HO Hood with moon lights.
The only new thing in use now is the lights, I'm thinking I should setup a sump/refugium before getting to far into this, I'm guess I'm looking for advice here, attached are a few photos of my setup, it's custom built under my stairs.
In the tank I had a Foxface, 2 Percula Clowns, a sixline wrasse, a flamehawk, a clown goby and a pair of firefish gobys. For invertabrates I have a camelback shrimp, a fire shrimp, an emerald crab and various snails and hermits. The tank ran like this for a long time, I did biweekly water changes and never had my nitrates above 20ish. All other levels were in check.
For whatever reason all of my fish died within a couple of hours starting with the foxface, the only thing that survived was the clown goby, the shrimps and the crabs and the snails.
I decided I wanted to upgrade my filtration, lighting and other stuff so I could setup a reef tank. I've since purchased a JBJ Reaction 45, an AquaC Remora 1200 Skimmer and an Aquaticlife 36" T5HO Hood with moon lights.
The only new thing in use now is the lights, I'm thinking I should setup a sump/refugium before getting to far into this, I'm guess I'm looking for advice here, attached are a few photos of my setup, it's custom built under my stairs.
maybe the fish had a heart attack from seeing the cat Jk. 
