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There's still a good assortment of fish that can go in.

Generally stay away from your algae eaters :)
Angels, tangs, rabbit fish, etc

In my tanks I keep clownfish, seahorse, dottyback, multiple types of gobies, scooter blennies, lots of inverts like starfish and a full assortment of shrimp (cleaner, fire, peppermint, camel)
 

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Wow.im setting up a 125 gal as my first salt water tank. This is a whole diff concept.
Are there fish that can go in a tank That features macro algae as well as softies?
This site is great. I have learned so much in few months.
Tangs sooner or later they eat up all your pretty macros. You can always keep macros in your sump like I do. Angelsfish will also developed a tastes for macros
There's also tons of other fish that won't eat macros. Clownfish, wrasses, and a few others that can be kept with macros. Also, crabs will eat your macros
 

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I will be back to you as a buyer for sure and if your willing with questions.
Need to buy ro/di and reef salt and am ready to start the cycle. Need to move 125 gallons of cichlids to other tanks also. No small chore.
 
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Personally the macro concept tank is all about plants and inverts for me. I sometimes overlook the presence of my fish all together.

Instead I stare at my inverts :)

Like this little guy that I found in a store as a hitch hiker. Originally about the size of a dime and now well over half dollar sized

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I would like a pack do u have picture of the rose pedal
 

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Personally the macro concept tank is all about plants and inverts for me. I sometimes overlook the presence of my fish all together.

Instead I stare at my inverts :)

Like this little guy that I found in a store as a hitch hiker. Originally about the size of a dime and now well over half dollar sized

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Do you need to "feed"anything special?
Do you also run the normal sump with skimmer?
Snails?
Sorry but I am intrigued with this.
 
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I run no skimmer. I run only a fluval along with an additional HOB Refugium for more algae.

Lots of snails (mostly cerith, Nerite, nassarius)

As far as feeding goes. I significantly over feed to maintain enough nitrates and phosphate for the plants. Otherwise they would die off. Sounds weird but to keep macro, you need the nitrates. For me it's a constant battle to maintain my nitrates cause the plants do a great job reducing them...
 

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Me personally. I like the corals and plants also but i would stay away from clownfish or any damsel species they get to aggressive and teritorial everyone i know loves wrasses anthias and chromis or any kind of schooling fish
 

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I'd be interesting in some dragon breath and blue scroll when you ahve more! (I need small pieces for nano tank). Do you also happen to have coceopods in your tank?
 
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Blue scroll can be trimmed at any time. Dragons breath unfortunately won't be coming from me anytime soon though.. Colony has been doing poorly over past couple months
 

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Just joined and saw this post. What do you currently have available? Getting ready to start up another tank and have been looking for a bunch of different macros for the display and sump.
 
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At the moment I could trim

Blue scroll, green codium, red bush, red Palm, red fern, couple Caulerpas

Sure I'm missing a few... If there's something that you wanted just let me know and I'll see if I can trim it
 

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I'm interested in the Blue Scroll, green codium, red bush, red palm and red fern.

Anything else blue, purple or yellow available?
 

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All I can say is WOW. Shipment arrived today. Great packaging and labeling. Fantastic macros.

Hopefully you will have some more within the next two months.
 

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Also, do you glue the dragons breath to the rock,?
 
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Not high enough... Honestly havnt tested it in a long time. When I was testing, it never really went above 10-15ppm. I generally over feed significantly just to ensure there is enough for all the macro
 

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