Wonky tank stocking (please give your input if you can)

Subsea · Feb 26, 2023

[Ok fellas. I’ve decided to start a 15 gallon reef. I want it to be a mixed reef with sps down the line. I’m a complete beginner but I have been researching
Here’s what I’ve decided on, feel free to recommend different corals/equipment and please point me out where I’m wrong

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@LOL_Z
After you posted this on Dec 2, you set up 4 or 5 different tanks including an SPS & NPS at 15 & 20 gallons. Do you own an aquarium set up business?

i cant think · Feb 26, 2023

Subsea said:
[Ok fellas. I’ve decided to start a 15 gallon reef. I want it to be a mixed reef with sps down the line. I’m a complete beginner but I have been researching
Here’s what I’ve decided on, feel free to recommend different corals/equipment and please point me out where I’m wrong ]

@LOL_Z
After you posted this on Dec 2, you set up 4 or 5 different tanks including an SPS & NPS at 15 & 20 gallons. Do you own an aquarium set up business?

I too am intrigued in this, I don’t intend to seem rude but it seems the OP wants to have the answer they are wanting.

dennis romano · Feb 26, 2023

i cant think said:
I too am intrigued in this, I don’t intend to seem rude but it seems the OP wants to have the answer they are wanting.

I have to agree. Seems that OP just likes to post.

L0L_Z · Feb 26, 2023

I didnt set those tanks up. Im going through ideas and this is my final one, Im finished. I should probably make a build thread tho-. As for NPS, I plan on having a few nps gorgonians in there so thats why

Subsea · Feb 26, 2023

L0L_Z said:
I didnt set those tanks up. Im going through ideas and this is my final one, Im finished. I should probably make a build thread tho-. As for NPS, I plan on having a few nps gorgonians in there so thats why

Not knowing your reefkeeping experience level between December and Febuary, however to start out with NPS is somewhat reckless. As was your suggested fish list for a 6’ long aquarium. Even if the Biofilter was sufficient for the heavy fish load you sought, much more important is territory aggression & stress.cased by too many fish in close quarters. Several people cautioned you on this point, yet you with no reef experience choose to ignore recommendations from helpful hobbiest with more experience than you. I have kept reefs for 51 years and the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

L0L_Z · Feb 27, 2023

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Subsea said:
Not knowing your reefkeeping experience level between December and Febuary, however to start out with NPS is somewhat reckless. As was your suggested fish list for a 6’ long aquarium. Even if the Biofilter was sufficient for the heavy fish load you sought, much more important is territory aggression & stress.cased by too many fish in close quarters. Several people cautioned you on this point, yet you with no reef experience choose to ignore recommendations from helpful hobbiest with more experience than you. I have kept reefs for 51 years and the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

kay, Less fish I guess. Maybe is this good-

Enigmatic moray eel
Porcupine puffer
Blue jaw triggerfish/PICASSO
PBT
cubicus boxfish
foxface
Harlequin tuskfish

Thats all