Reef Tank

tijil

tijil

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I am currently devoting my time and funding into my 125 gallon agressive setup, but soon I will have completed it and be ready to purchase a 75 gallon reef tank. I don't know much about reef tanks, really, and I want some opinions.
First of all, would a Refugium be useful? How might I go about making one?
Right now I have a 35 gallon tank with a regal tang, a percula clownfish, 2 blue devil damsels, a cleaner shrimp, and a few hermits and emerald crabs. Would I be able to house those creatures along with a yellow head jawfish and a flame angel?
How much live rock/live sand should I use?
 
slothy

slothy

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Originally posted by TiJiL
I am currently devoting my time and funding into my 125 gallon agressive setup, but soon I will have completed it and be ready to purchase a 75 gallon reef tank. I don't know much about reef tanks, really, and I want some opinions.
First of all, would a Refugium be useful? How might I go about making one?
Right now I have a 35 gallon tank with a regal tang, a percula clownfish, 2 blue devil damsels, a cleaner shrimp, and a few hermits and emerald crabs. Would I be able to house those creatures along with a yellow head jawfish and a flame angel?
How much live rock/live sand should I use?
1.5-2 lbs of live rock per gallon
and as a side note, your tank is too small (35 gal) for a tang
 
aileena

aileena

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You may want to be careful about adding to many fish unless you have a massiv protein skimmer and some capurela.
I think I have too many fish for my tank already and you have a tang. I would get rid of the tang and add those fish you want or get rid of the damsels and just stick with the tang and the clown. You could keep the tang as long as there is plenty of room for him. I don't know what to tell you as I said earlier I think I have too many fish in my tank already as you can see, but my protien skimmer is rated for up to 60 gallons, I have a UV light and I have also added a ton of capurela to my tank recently. GOOD LUCK and remember the 1" of fish per 5 gallons rule! some even strech it to 1.5" per gallon
 
tijil

tijil

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I know... A 35 gallon is much too small for a tang. I bought the entire setup from a friend when I didn't know better. That is why I am interested in getting a 75 or 90 gallon reef tank. Would that be big enough for the fish I have, along with a jawfish and flame angel?
 
tijil

tijil

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Oh. It seems I have made a mistake. I meant to take the tang/damsels/clowfish out of the 35 and put them into the new tank.
 
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