Hey folks, I have had a JBJ 30RL for something like a year now. An amazing deal popped up on a 45 so I grabbed it and swapped everything over. Now that I have some more water to play with I wanted to add some more fish to my bio load. So far what I have from the 30 is the obligatory pair of clowns, a tiny neon goby, a yellow prawn goby, royal gramma, coral beauty, cleaner shrimp, and pistol shrimp, small cleanup crew.
I would like to add the following 3 blue reef chromis, 2 firefish, and a nice fairy wrasse.
I only have 2 small corals right now but would like to add quite a bit in the future.
My 30 was running like a well oiled machine. I had 2 upgraded media baskets with the following large pore sponge on top, to small pore sponge, to filter floss in the top basket, and the other 2 sections filled with pumice, I took out the 2 small pumps and put in a single larger 66o gph pump which drove the returns and also split to run down to my cheato reactor. I had a skimmer in the main chamber, but took it offline cuz the cheato cleaned out everything. My only maintenance was rinsing sponges, changing filter floss, and trimming cheato....no water changes needed.
Anyway, I feel like the bigger tank should be able to handle the new load, but would like opinions. I can always fire the skimmer back up if needed. If I add 6 more fish will it limit the amount of coral I can add? I do plan on starting to dose at least kalk, if not 2 or 3 part to start to get ready for coral.
I would like to add the following 3 blue reef chromis, 2 firefish, and a nice fairy wrasse.
I only have 2 small corals right now but would like to add quite a bit in the future.
My 30 was running like a well oiled machine. I had 2 upgraded media baskets with the following large pore sponge on top, to small pore sponge, to filter floss in the top basket, and the other 2 sections filled with pumice, I took out the 2 small pumps and put in a single larger 66o gph pump which drove the returns and also split to run down to my cheato reactor. I had a skimmer in the main chamber, but took it offline cuz the cheato cleaned out everything. My only maintenance was rinsing sponges, changing filter floss, and trimming cheato....no water changes needed.
Anyway, I feel like the bigger tank should be able to handle the new load, but would like opinions. I can always fire the skimmer back up if needed. If I add 6 more fish will it limit the amount of coral I can add? I do plan on starting to dose at least kalk, if not 2 or 3 part to start to get ready for coral.
