weslogston
Aquarium Advice Newbie
I have a 55gal saltwater aqarium that is 3 months old. I have had my black volitan lionfish, 6 large margarita snails, and a yellowtail blue damsel in the tank for over a month. and on thursday i will have a burrfish puffer. There is over 10lbs of crushed live rock for 1st layer then 20 lbs live sand over that and 50lbs of dead live rock formations- half on each end of the tank- creating caves. As far as the parameters go they are and have been perfect, ammonia 0, ph 8.1 ish, sal 1.023, nitrates 0, nitrites 0, temp 80. The lighting is 48in T5 HO with led strip. 4 bulbs w/individual reflectors. one aqeuon 55 power filter, one jebo 178 skimmer/filter(i know i dont really need it) and one 12in air wand. I have been raising and breeding freshwater fish for years, i have several large very nice tanks- so i know fish really well. but I need some advice on my saltwater setup. I could get the advice from wayne at the pet store where i buy everything but im starting to make outside purchases due to his mark-ups. so i cant ask him or he will get mad at me for buying elsewhere. what i want to do with my saltwater tank is eventually have alot of colorful corals and such. I want to grow them myself. In the near future i will be upgrading to a much larger tank- so dont worry about that. now, for the question- How many or much coral frags can I add to my tank without affecting parameters or starving them? Where in the tank can I place them (i want to place them about my stacks of dead live rock to make things more colorful)? I do not have a power head but there is alot of current due to the two large pumps. Do i need to feed them anything? Is there any animals that i shouldnt put in with them? Is there any cool looking colorful easy coral frags that you would recomend? Thank you for your time. Wes Logston