Starting a 10g

[Sharkbait430]

Things must be going great and your tank likes it's paramenters to have all that coralline growing. Good for you.....

Well thank you very much TC!

 

[Flake]

why turn the 200 into a FOWLR!?!? reef!

I want the reef but I love the big tangs and triggers that would eat all my pretty corals.

So I get a reef with little shiny fish like chromis, a royal gramma, a flame angel.... and my somewhat aggressive fowlr for the big angels, triggers, an eel....and most importantly, a porcupine puffer

I still get all the fish I want, and another tank!

 

[fishmonkey]

aww. i had very high hopes for the 200. that'd be a VERY cool reef.

 

[Flake]

I really really wanted a reef, but I don't really want to sit and babysit every fish I put in it not to eat it. It's the current plan. I did buy lighting for reef though so a change in plans could happen should I become convinced that a reef would work without all the fish eating it...

 

[fishmonkey]

what if i told you that the next person to start a reef in a 200gallon tank who had a username called Flake on Aquarium Advice would win a shiny new car?

 

[Flake]

Close but I don't need a new car... My problem is just the fish I like. They're either teeny, safe and scrumptious or large and hungry

 

[fishmonkey]

okay then:

what if i told you that the next person to start a reef in a 200gallon tank who had a username called Flake on Aquarium Advice would win all the fish that they wanted for free?

 

[Flake]

Now you're getting somewhere....

 

[thincat]

I want the reef but I love the big tangs and triggers that would eat all my pretty corals.

So I get a reef with little shiny fish like chromis, a royal gramma, a flame angel.... and my somewhat aggressive fowlr for the big angels, triggers, an eel....and most importantly, a porcupine puffer

I still get all the fish I want, and another tank!

Tangs are okay for a reef setup if you have a big enough tank. Length is more important then height if you plan to keep tangs.

 

[Flake]

I just don't want to chance anyone nibbling my corals. it's 80" long so thats not the issue xD

 

[fishmonkey]

have you looked in books?

 

[fishmonkey]

hey a quick question: what filter are you using?

 

[Flake]

i'm just using an old aqua clear 30 that I had laying around. So I put it to good use.

 

[fishmonkey]

okay. i acquired a 15 gallon so im poking around for HOB filters lolz.

 

[Flake]

I think anything small you could get your hands on would work.

 

[fishmonkey]

yeah thats what i figured. did you fill the filter with LR rubble?

 

[Flake]

I put in what rubble I had and have some porcelain beads for the filter lying around that I put in, I figured it would act essentially like the lr until I build up my rubble.


UPDATE

Since the advent of the 46, all the inhabitants of the 10 have moved. Even the shrimp was getting too big for the tank.

So we've undergone a revamp. Gave the tank a good cleaning. put some rock back in. It may be getting a wee frogspawn from the big tank (the bf wants a bigger piece of it in the 46) and probably xenia. (I have a lot of it now) But for now, we have a new inhabitant.

sorry for terrible quality. There's some crud on the glass, but he's so skittish I didn't want to clean it with him out of his cave.

 

[fishmonkey]

wow! great looking...what exactly is it? whatever it is, its awesome!

 

[thominil]

Looks great!

fishmonkey, it looks like a firefish to me lol, but I'm probably wrong.

 

[fishmonkey]

whatever it is! its pretty awsoome!