briterco
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Hi Everyone,
I'm jumping back in the hobby after a 3 year hiatus. I had a 125g FOWLR for about 5 years. It did well and I'm taking all my learnings from before in designing my new system. This time I will have 150g tall, MH/CFL lighting, 30g fuge, 50 sump for water changes, UV sterilizer, skimmer, media reactor. I'm building it in the wall and the back is in a large unfinished area of the basement so i have a lot of workspace.
Anyway I'm probably a month out before i even start putting water, LR, LS in to start the cycling process. Until then I'm thinking about the inhabitants and the order to add them. My goal is to have ZERO casualties (I know...that's all of ours.
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I will do VERY slow additions following the hyposalinity quarrantine regime. I will have a 20g hospital tank set up for that, so i figure a new addition to the main tank every 4-5 weeks. So here is my plan list. I don't think I will have any compatibility issues but would appreciate comments on that and also the proposed ordering of addition. Keep in mind that the groups with multiples will also be in quarrantine together also. I will go with smaller/juvenile fish so we can watch them grow up:
1. 3 blue reef chromis (or blue-green chromis)
2. 1 Diamond Watchman Goby
3. 1 Yellow Tang
4. 1 Red Pixy Hawkfish
5. 1 Flame Angel
6. 3 Blue Hippa Tangs (is this plus the yellow too much? should i go with just 1?)
7. paired clowns + carpet anemone (I know the anemone doesn't get quarrantined)
8. corals (will be planned out later)
9. 1 Mandarin Dragonet
I'll also phase in a full cleanup crew, including a cleaner shrimp. What are recommendations for phasing in the cleanup crew? Obviously i don't want to overstock with too large a cleanup crew and not enough to clean up.
I'm jumping back in the hobby after a 3 year hiatus. I had a 125g FOWLR for about 5 years. It did well and I'm taking all my learnings from before in designing my new system. This time I will have 150g tall, MH/CFL lighting, 30g fuge, 50 sump for water changes, UV sterilizer, skimmer, media reactor. I'm building it in the wall and the back is in a large unfinished area of the basement so i have a lot of workspace.
Anyway I'm probably a month out before i even start putting water, LR, LS in to start the cycling process. Until then I'm thinking about the inhabitants and the order to add them. My goal is to have ZERO casualties (I know...that's all of ours.
I will do VERY slow additions following the hyposalinity quarrantine regime. I will have a 20g hospital tank set up for that, so i figure a new addition to the main tank every 4-5 weeks. So here is my plan list. I don't think I will have any compatibility issues but would appreciate comments on that and also the proposed ordering of addition. Keep in mind that the groups with multiples will also be in quarrantine together also. I will go with smaller/juvenile fish so we can watch them grow up:
1. 3 blue reef chromis (or blue-green chromis)
2. 1 Diamond Watchman Goby
3. 1 Yellow Tang
4. 1 Red Pixy Hawkfish
5. 1 Flame Angel
6. 3 Blue Hippa Tangs (is this plus the yellow too much? should i go with just 1?)
7. paired clowns + carpet anemone (I know the anemone doesn't get quarrantined)
8. corals (will be planned out later)
9. 1 Mandarin Dragonet
I'll also phase in a full cleanup crew, including a cleaner shrimp. What are recommendations for phasing in the cleanup crew? Obviously i don't want to overstock with too large a cleanup crew and not enough to clean up.
