baron1282
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Hello everyone!! I had a fresh water tank before that was nuked. I had started it up without reading and all the good stuff we do when we first get into the hobby thinking it's all too easy.
As of right now, I am in the process of getting a new tank, same size. Just the tank I got everything else. I am repainting the stand to black, it was oak. Didn't like oak I think black matches everything. Once I do that I a plan on doing a salt water tank and fishless cycle. Starting the beginning of November with the cycle.
I don't plan on a reef tank, just some live rock (Enough to get a good bio things going on). I wanted to set up the rock on one corner of my tank as to provide some hiding spaces for the Fuzzy Dwarf Lion Fish I plan on keeping. I plan on keeping Just him/her in the tank. No other fish and I was also planning on putting a tuxedo sea urchin in with the tank to help keep it clean.
I was wondering if I should put another fish in with the Lion, or just keep to my Idea. The only reason I was wondering if I should keep another fish is because of the bio-filter that I want to keep up in my tank for the good bacteria. If I should put another fish, what fish should I put in a 30 gallon set up so he will not eat the fish and both will be happy?
I have a 30 gallon tank filter that sits on the tank, but I am going to buy a canister filter to add to the tank filtering. I was planning on using the regular filter with a sponge filter inside to keep some good bio going, and the canister filter will help as well. I got a good heater and I am also going to use a bubbler being I got one on the side of the tank with a small air stone. Not some big on, just to keep water moving and to use it because I got it. I am also going to get a skimmer!
So the plan! Live rock built up on the right side of the tank to offer hiding places and some perches for my guy to lay on and the urchin to munch on. A big open space for swimming on the left side. Two filters, the little Marian land one and a canister one, and a small air stone bubbler on the left side. The tank that I plan will only have two living residents in. A dwarf fuzzy lion, and a tuxedo sea urchin. My main question is should I add another fish, and what fish should it be?
As of right now, I am in the process of getting a new tank, same size. Just the tank I got everything else. I am repainting the stand to black, it was oak. Didn't like oak I think black matches everything. Once I do that I a plan on doing a salt water tank and fishless cycle. Starting the beginning of November with the cycle.
I don't plan on a reef tank, just some live rock (Enough to get a good bio things going on). I wanted to set up the rock on one corner of my tank as to provide some hiding spaces for the Fuzzy Dwarf Lion Fish I plan on keeping. I plan on keeping Just him/her in the tank. No other fish and I was also planning on putting a tuxedo sea urchin in with the tank to help keep it clean.
I was wondering if I should put another fish in with the Lion, or just keep to my Idea. The only reason I was wondering if I should keep another fish is because of the bio-filter that I want to keep up in my tank for the good bacteria. If I should put another fish, what fish should I put in a 30 gallon set up so he will not eat the fish and both will be happy?
I have a 30 gallon tank filter that sits on the tank, but I am going to buy a canister filter to add to the tank filtering. I was planning on using the regular filter with a sponge filter inside to keep some good bio going, and the canister filter will help as well. I got a good heater and I am also going to use a bubbler being I got one on the side of the tank with a small air stone. Not some big on, just to keep water moving and to use it because I got it. I am also going to get a skimmer!
So the plan! Live rock built up on the right side of the tank to offer hiding places and some perches for my guy to lay on and the urchin to munch on. A big open space for swimming on the left side. Two filters, the little Marian land one and a canister one, and a small air stone bubbler on the left side. The tank that I plan will only have two living residents in. A dwarf fuzzy lion, and a tuxedo sea urchin. My main question is should I add another fish, and what fish should it be?