Additional Inhabitants for FOWLER Aquarium

[Boulder]

Everyone - beyond fish, what are some interesting inhabitants that a person can add to their SW aquarium while still maintaining the simplicity (basic lights and less complicated filtration / parameters) of a FOWLER system.

So far I have discovered ...

• Feather Dusters (have 2 doing quite well).
• CUC consisting of Snails, Shrimp and Crabs.
• Red Mushrooms - have one that hitch-hiked in and seems to be doing well (it's growing anyway).
• Halimeda plant - another hitch-hiker that looks like it is doing OK (about 3" long and flows in the current).

I eventually will probably get a larger aquarium and go full blown reef but I have alot to learn before I get to that point.

 

[roka64]

Long spine urchin.
Wow, I am totally drawing a blank....

 

[HN1]

Sun coral. You'll need to spot feed, but no real lighting requirements. And they are cool!

 

[severum mama]

Chili coral; non-photosynthetic and requires target feeding like the sun coral does. Some gorgonians are also non-photosynthetic. I've never kept either of these so can't advise on their difficulty level.

 

[Boulder]

Alright - spine urchins, chili corals and sun corals. I'll research those!

I already spot feed the two feather dusters with PhycoPure thru a 'turkey-baster' so I assume feeding these corals would be similar but maybe with a bigger variety including mysis and brine shrimp?