Population plan
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TimSchmidt
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Just make sure if it is aggressive you give the coral room (flower pot). That is a very detailed listing. I don't have experience with a lot of it but I don't see anything that would concern me. Just make sure you don't add the dragon goby the same time as the snails, crabs, and such. You may want to get a couple astrea or cerith snails. The nassarius snails do well in the sand be but won't really spend a lot of time on the glass or rock. You look like you are doing a lot of research so may I make a suggestion? Look into a calcium reactor. It can run upwards of $400, but it will definitely keep your water parameters ideal for all that stony coral and clams. Which lighting are you going to use?
TimSchmidt
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Fair enough. You will need to make sure your levels stay ideal. With that much stony coral and clams your CA will need to be ideal.
johnanddawn
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very well researched list but a few comments:
definitly skip both the daisy and the flowerpot - not very hardy, poor choices, best left in the ocean - substitute a different euphiliad like frogspawn or torch or go with a candy cane
The blue ridge and the cap are questionable, they would do OK in your tank but don't really match the rest of the theme of mostly softies, shrooms and zoas. i would leave these out as well. you could look at substituting some "hairy shrooms" like Rhodactus rhodostoma or R. indosinensis instead. these are very hardy substitutes for anemones and your clowns will love them and it is always intesting to watch your clowns interacting with them
too many and too small of clams. instead i would suggest just one clam and try to get one that is at least 3". they cost quite a bit more but are MUCH hardier then the baby clams and you really don't have room for all those corals and 4 clams.
skip the green lettuce nudi - not needed and likely to melt in your tank and foul it
you will need to add some algae snails to the list like turbos or astraea. i like turbos best but many think they get to big so maybe just 2 turbos and 6 astraea
as far as fish go - i like to stick with just a pair of clowns in a tank like this. people usually realize too late that clowns ar very territorial in small tanks and should be housed as a single pair. this also improves your chance of them pairing up and laying eggs one day. so although theoretically you could add one or two other small fish i would not recomend it
definitly skip both the daisy and the flowerpot - not very hardy, poor choices, best left in the ocean - substitute a different euphiliad like frogspawn or torch or go with a candy cane
The blue ridge and the cap are questionable, they would do OK in your tank but don't really match the rest of the theme of mostly softies, shrooms and zoas. i would leave these out as well. you could look at substituting some "hairy shrooms" like Rhodactus rhodostoma or R. indosinensis instead. these are very hardy substitutes for anemones and your clowns will love them and it is always intesting to watch your clowns interacting with them
too many and too small of clams. instead i would suggest just one clam and try to get one that is at least 3". they cost quite a bit more but are MUCH hardier then the baby clams and you really don't have room for all those corals and 4 clams.
skip the green lettuce nudi - not needed and likely to melt in your tank and foul it
you will need to add some algae snails to the list like turbos or astraea. i like turbos best but many think they get to big so maybe just 2 turbos and 6 astraea
as far as fish go - i like to stick with just a pair of clowns in a tank like this. people usually realize too late that clowns ar very territorial in small tanks and should be housed as a single pair. this also improves your chance of them pairing up and laying eggs one day. so although theoretically you could add one or two other small fish i would not recomend it