birdmike
Aquarium Advice Newbie
I have:
I have a little bit of diatom and brownish algae growing on the sides of my tank, but the cleanup crew is starting to cut down on that. Also, I'm seeing lots of little 'pods roaming around.
I would like to have hardy corals, cool inverts, and potentially a few more smaller fish like gobies.
What I would like to know:
- 29g
- 2X 65W CF lighting
- 2 modded power filters turned into refugia housing chaeto and LR rubble
- about 15lbs LR, 30lb Base rock
- 5-6" DSB, with live sand in sugar size
- 50 W heater - don't worry, I'll upgrade this, but my apartment stays at about 80F all the time so not a concern till winter
- 2 ~200GPH power heads, one of them the rotating "wavemaker" kind
- cheap airstone powered skimmer which does actually pull out some skimmate
- 80F
- 1.025 salinity
- 0 Ammonia
- 0 nitrite
- 20 nitrate
- pH 8.2
- 6 nassarius snails
- 3 smaller snails, burrow into sand like nassarius snails but have black shells
- 5 blue legged hermit crabs
- Percula clownfish (just got him, he took to a cave in my LR overnight)
- 'Pods on the LR/glass
- Micro stars crawling around on some LR pieces
I have a little bit of diatom and brownish algae growing on the sides of my tank, but the cleanup crew is starting to cut down on that. Also, I'm seeing lots of little 'pods roaming around.
I would like to have hardy corals, cool inverts, and potentially a few more smaller fish like gobies.
What I would like to know:
- What additions to my clean-up crew do you suggest?
- What sorts of fish can I add?
- I would like to have a firefish goby, but I don't have a cover on my tank - bad idea?
- Should I hold off on adding corals for a while longer?
- Do I have enough lighting for an anemone?
- Do you think my set-up sounds ok?
- Is a Mandarin Goby not an option?
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