New Tank would love some feedback.

gojets2013

gojets2013

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I have a FOWLR I set up about 2 months ago. It will be a aggressive tank for now may be a coral tank down the road. It is a 75 rimless with a eshops sump think 30/40 gallon. Sorry got the tank 3 years ago. I have a mag7 pump may have to upgrade, 1 power head one more coming,a UV sanitizer, have a protein skimmer and a aquatic life 1W 48' LED fixture coming. I cycled the tank with a niger trigger, and a Fiji puffer. The trigger jumped out 2weeks in had the puffer about 5 weeks after. I just had my service and first water change and added a humu trigger, niger trigger and a flame angel 4 fish total now. I am using country critters in patchogue Long Island until I understand what I'm doing. How does this sound? I may look to add 1 or 2 more fish maby a saddle clown or maroon if you don't think a saddle can make it and a fox face. Also is there anything else I can put in this tank to really make it beautiful. Any type of invert, sea fan, sponges cool uncommon fish? Maby a wartskin angler? My rock it pretty nice just about all purple, it is the man made type but it's very nice. But would like some other color. Please give me some constrictive criticism. I have had many fish stores tell me don't do the rock only if no coral but I want the option to change if I love it or $ comes a little easy down the road plus I love the natural setup much more than the filters and the fact that I have much more water because I lose a lot of evaporation. Thank you. Anthony go jets
 
geridoc

geridoc

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Before you do anything else you have to get a cover on that tank. With two triggers in there you are going to see a lot of aggression and jumping/carpet surfing. Go to Home Depot and get some egg crate in the lighting department, and cut it to fit the tank top. This will keep the fish in, the carbon dioxide out, and let the light in. Anticipate that you cannot add too much more - those will get to be large, very aggressive triggers. Always stock based on the eventual adult size, not the size thaey are when you acquire them since fish in the trade are almost always juveniles, nowhere near adult size. Eventually the Humu will wake up one morning and decide that the entire tank belongs to it, and will kill everything else. Maybe not for 5 years, or maybe tomorrow. Insanity obeys no time schedule.
 
gojets2013

gojets2013

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And yes I do understand that I'm playing with fire with the triggers but they are the fish that really made me want to get a saltwater setup. I was going to get a clown trigger but everything I read says the will snap at some point. I guess the same applies to the Humu but I have been told my chances are much better with him than the clown.
 
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