Hey Ike thanks for taking the time to stop by and post. Much appreciated.Hey man,
Since you asked for it in my other thread, here's my advice and what I would do if this system was mine.
1.) Get some cool fish that generally stick near rock work, maybe a damsel and a couple pseudochromis in one and a pair of cardinalfish and a fang blenny in the other. In my experience these fish won't jump in those combos, though no guarantees
2.) Feed those fish well with a high protein flake food like Formula 1
3.) Get some cleanup crew a bit soon after adding the fish. Tiger trochus if you're not securing corals well and mexican turbos if you are. I also love cortez red keg hermits and think they should be a part of every system
4.) Lay off the dosing once you get some fish
5.) If you get algae add cleanup crew, if nutrients get low add more fish and feed them
I'll be honest I was never comfortable dosing chemicals to get my Nitrates up. Just got to the point it was running at 0 so long I knew it couldnt be good once I started seeing some cyano and gha that i had mistaken for dynos.
As of now i do have a cpl mexican turbos up in the tables to battle the nuisance algae. A little rough on the corals as I've found a cpl mushroom laying over on the floor out of the racks.
What do you think of sea hares? My lfs has a bunch I'm just curious if they would be a little more gentle and not move my corals around.
I do have 15 red legged hermit crabs running around some are getting huge and already moved to bigger shells a cpl time.
Tried a lawnmower blenny but he did jump.
Need to look into chromis.
As well as my wife loves damsels.
I have alot of room in the reservoirs below the tables the only fish I have on the bottom now is the copperband.
Will the damsels play nice with it?
I could put a blenny with him.
And fill the other res with whatever I want to really.
Or do you think I need to figure out a way to get some fish in with the corals?