Okay, it's time for fish!! How 'bout this?

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Abarnswell

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Okay, it's time to Check With The Experts...

My 15 g. nanoreef is stable with good water quality. I want to add fish now. I am planning to add either 2 or 3 juvenile Ocellaris. These will be the only fish in this tank. Is 3 too many? Would 2 be better, either in terms of tank size and/or fish compatibility/behavior?

I have a few Nassarius snails, a few blue-legged hermies, one white-banded shrimp, soft corals (pulsing Xenia, a zoo, and a star polyp), and 218 micro brittle stars. (No, I didn't count them!). I'm just teasing Erik. :)

Oh, yeah. And I have 3,279 assorted copepods and other micro-crustaceans.
 
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Abarnswell

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I wondered about the behavior of three. From what I have read in several marine reef aquarium books, the authors have said that one of the three will become larger/dominant and will become the female, and the other two will remain slightly smaller and will be males, but that the three would get along fine as a group as long as they are all purchased at the same time as juveniles.

A woman at one of my LFS with a reef tank says she has three of them and they do well together.

What have others experienced?

Hooterhead: I just noticed in your profile that you have a snowflake eel. Wow! Is he hard to keep? Nearby there is a marine livestock distributor, and they have a bunch of baby snowflakes and they are SO COOL! What attitude! They follow you around with their eyes and keep an eye on spectators. They're neat.
 
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drty811

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april,
agree with hooterhead....two would definitly be better. what kind of filteration are you running? is your 15 a tall or regular? 15tall is twenty inches long and regular is 24".

P.S. thats not funny :cry: JK :mrgreen:
 
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Abarnswell

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Sorry, Erik, I couldn't resist about the micros! ;)

I have a 15 gallon (long, not tall) with an AquaClear filter on back with foam only. I just bought a powerhead to add on and an AquaClear protein skimmer that attaches to the HOB filter. I would like to change my filtration set up to include a refugium. The planted refugiums I've seen on this forum as so neat. But I need to research and figure out how in the world to do it. I am SO NOT a DIYer, and I am plumbing and mechanically challenged. :(

Okay, just two Oscellaris then. I hope they'll be friends with my cleaner shrimp, who prefers to be hand fed, by the way. Cute little guy. He molted yesterday. At first I thought he was dead, until I realized it was just empty skin.
 
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Abarnswell

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aqauclear filters are very easy to fabricate into a fuge. there is a bunch of threads on this topic and they are very detailed and easy.
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Thanks, Erik. I'll read those threads and see how they do it. I really want a refugium, particularly one with macroalgae and little guys (hermits, snail), etc...
 
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Abarnswell

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I got my pair of Ocellaris tonight. They seem happy to far... my fingers are crossed. They came from a tank with about 6 juvenile Ocellaris. They fed readily at the LFS and looked healthy, so I brought two home. Already, they follow me around the tank while I'm up close and watching what's going on. I hope they do well. ... (fingers crossed).

They are named Marlin and Coral, of course. :)
 
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hooterhead

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Abarnswell said:
Hooterhead: I just noticed in your profile that you have a snowflake eel. Wow! Is he hard to keep? Nearby there is a marine livestock distributor, and they have a bunch of baby snowflakes and they are SO COOL! What attitude! They follow you around with their eyes and keep an eye on spectators. They're neat.
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yeah he's really cool. mine's about 17" long. got him at about 8" and have had him a little over a year. they aren't that hard to keep. usually mine's got his head hangin' out of his cave and come's out to eat silversides and krill. just for fun...here's a pic of him. blurry but he moved.
 

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drty811

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hooterhead,

thats awsome, ive always wanted one. what size tank do you have him in? is there anyhting else in the tank? how often do you feed him?
 
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hooterhead

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he's in my 60 gal cube. and there's a yellow coris wrasse and a gold stripe maroon clown in with him. he eats whenever i see that he's hungary. he'll come out of his cave and start looking for food. then i throw in a silverside at a time. and he usually eats about 4 silversides every 3 or 4 days.
 
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travis

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I have three clowns in a 10gallon, I had one originally then added two more. At first the original was a bit stand offish, after two days they were swimming together. Now I see all of them at the same time in my RBTA
 
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