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PizzaIan339 · Dec 21, 2023

Cool build! Can you share a FTS and a stocking list please?

Kraig · Dec 21, 2023

PizzaIan339 said:
Cool build! Can you share a FTS and a stocking list please?

Thanks! 2 years now. I had some issues the first of the year and lost some corals. I got caught up in another project and stopped water changes. I also had a heater event that caused water temp to drop before I noticed. I think that played a part....

With that said, I currently have the following:

3 pajama cardinals, they are my first fish.

1 clownfish. Her mate died, never figured out why but all other fish are good. She now is the keeper of my bigger toadstool :)

1 Lawnmower blenny, I love this fish, so much personality. Sometimes when I am around the tank he will come up to the front class and just (I think) watch me!

I might have a yellow watchman goby. Haven’t seen it in a few months. This has happened before and all of a sudden one day I would see him a couple of times.

I have a purple firefish in qt right now. He won’t join the others for a bit still.

I have been debating with myself about adding a wrasse but can’t make up my mind.

Fire shrimp
Arrow crab
Lots of snails, mostly astraea, trochus, nassarius, bumble bees

Corals I still have:
Ricordea mushrom
2 toadstools
Firework polyps
Montipora
Green harry mushroom - its in the sand on a plug. I haven’t committed to keeping it yet cause of the “taking over tank” stories
Acan (still trying to recover from my event last winter)
Several zoas
A few others I can't think of right now.

For whatever reason, I’ve had slow growth in my tank even with fairly stable parameters.

A couple of recent pics (Purple Firefish is just a quick pic I took this morning before heading out, not great)