Recent content by MountainAsh87

Interesting idea! Any particular species recommendations? I'm totally pondering a gold nugget pleco once the tank is more established. A friend offered to buy one for me. XD Snails are probably a really good call. o.o

Yeah, that was my concern. :/ The 60gal is the largest tank I have at the moment, so I can't rehome the Blue Acara if major aggression starts happening.

Thanks! :D Blue Acaras are so pretty. @_@ I read that they're likely to bully smaller fish. Is that accurate or not so much? Yay!!

Hallo all! I have a heated, planted tropical tank pictured here: Current stock: 6 black skirt tetra 6 gold skirt tetra 6 serpae tetra 6 galactic purple tetra 1 bristlenose pleco So, the tank is already pretty full. Is there room for centerpiece fish of some kind, like a pearl gourami or an...

I was kinda thinking a brittle sea star, cerith snails, nassarius snails, and some peppermint shrimp. :) Not sure on numbers for the snails & shrimp, though.

Any suggestions for a clean up crew? :)

I've got a solid light, so I should be covered for light levels, but I don't want to bleach out the other stuff just to get the birdnest enough light. :/ Similar concerns with flow. I can get the needed flow, but I don't want to create too much flow for the rest of the tank. New proposed...

Maybe cut out the Banggai Cardinalfish and add one Firefish? I'd also love to have: Birdsnest coral Cauliflower Colt Coral Thick Finger Leather Coral

Building my first reef tank - 60 gal, 48.5" x 12.75" x 25" with PFS substrate - and looking at the following for fish: Blue Reef Chromis (5) Zebra Barred Dartfish (3) Royal Gramma Basslet (1) Banggai Cardinalfish (3) With one each of the following coral: Colony Polyp, Orange/Green Trumpet...

Perfect! Thank you both.

The subject line kind of says it all. I'm setting up my first reef. Planning on fish and soft corals with 3" or less of sand substrate in a 25" tall tank. Wattage on LEDs seems to be wildly different than wattage on standard lights, so I'm baffled about what kind of LEDs I'd need for the setup...

Stellar! That is what I needed to know. Thanks muchly! :D How important is curing live rock when you're first starting up a cycle? I mean, it's not like I have an ecosystem to disrupt at this point. >>

I'm building my first SW tank - 60 gal reef - with the help of a friend. She used to have a 125 gal reef tank, so she's fairly knowledgeable, but she's never fishless cycled a tank before. I want to fishless cycle, but I'm not sure what order things need to go in after that. Should I cycle the...

OH! Yay! :D Thanks, Toad. Yeah, I totally want a Badis Badis. Just one, though, since I don't want territorial issues. I would need a tank twice as large as the one I have to keep even a single archerfish. They can get up to a foot long. Nothing in my current plan should get above 6".

Frogs, or anything amphibious, isn't really going to work for the setup that I have in mind. I'm looking for pure aquatic. It's going to be a well-hooded tank because I have two cats. I want an aquarium, not a sushi buffet.