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Hi All,
looking for some tips on my starting 55g reef. It’s a pretty well established tank that was originally a 30g and was upgraded to a 55g - at this point it’s been running about 5+ years, I just haven’t made the jump into Corals as I wanted to make sure I set myself up for success.
Fish stocking is
1 cherub angel (3-4yrs old ~3”)
1 tomini tang
2 clowns (1 Wyoming white, 1 black snowflake)
1 yellow candy hog
1 Royal gramma
Inverts include
1 coral banded shrimp
2 skunk shrimp
1-2 peppermint shrimp
3 emerald crabs
And a bunch of hermits/snails
initially I was nervous about adding coral with the cherub angel, BUT I added a geeen star polyp colony the other week and he hasn’t even looked at it.
I was thinking about going to my LFS to get either a Hammer, Duncan or Balsto frag, but wanted some other suggestions on some hardier “beginner” corals I should consider.
Attached are some pics of the tank from a few days ago - a little hard to see what’s going on with the blue lights (I don’t have a lens filter yet but want to grab one at my LFS next time I go).
Any tips/suggestions would be much appreciated!
looking for some tips on my starting 55g reef. It’s a pretty well established tank that was originally a 30g and was upgraded to a 55g - at this point it’s been running about 5+ years, I just haven’t made the jump into Corals as I wanted to make sure I set myself up for success.
Fish stocking is
1 cherub angel (3-4yrs old ~3”)
1 tomini tang
2 clowns (1 Wyoming white, 1 black snowflake)
1 yellow candy hog
1 Royal gramma
Inverts include
1 coral banded shrimp
2 skunk shrimp
1-2 peppermint shrimp
3 emerald crabs
And a bunch of hermits/snails
initially I was nervous about adding coral with the cherub angel, BUT I added a geeen star polyp colony the other week and he hasn’t even looked at it.
I was thinking about going to my LFS to get either a Hammer, Duncan or Balsto frag, but wanted some other suggestions on some hardier “beginner” corals I should consider.
Attached are some pics of the tank from a few days ago - a little hard to see what’s going on with the blue lights (I don’t have a lens filter yet but want to grab one at my LFS next time I go).
Any tips/suggestions would be much appreciated!