You could get around 150lbs of live rock or if it’s out of your budget get 50/50 live and dry and wait a couple months for all of it to become live, you’ll get some cool hitchhikers most likely, then get some easy dirty water corals like zoa, mushrooms, Xenia and Star polyps. They’ll grow like weeds and make the pond glow like Avatar. Maybe some clownfish and a few type of more peaceful damsels and a large school of chromis , maybe a coral beauty angel and a needle nose puffer, a filefish to eat any aptasia you might get by mistake, maybe a small tang like a khole if you want something a little more interesting, some hermits, various snails, some peppermint shrimp or any other easy critters you might like, add some macro algae like dragons breath. You would have an awesome and beautiful low maintenance reef/tide pool .
Lol ya, that’s a very easy reef to do, I’ve never done a lagoon, but I’ve seen a few and they are pretty damn cool and are definitely on my aquarium bucket list.
Does nobody like my idea?! Haha! A mangrove-theme one would be cool. I am still caught up on the Tidepool Sculpin and other small, peaceful fish. I really think live rock with algae and hitchhikers would be cool.
Manning99
I was thinking of archers, but might stray towards the more brackish members instead....bichirs are a bit too eel like for me, and I'm worried one would climb out of the tank....and african butterflyfish (ABF?) are cool, but not my style.
The Masked Shadow
, it's an interesting idea. It would need a lot of research (which I guess is a plus, I like research) to get it right. Although sourcing the fish would be hard....
