some you buy with live rock, because there's just no way you can get them off, some plant themselves, and some you have to plant.
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i assume the easiest way would be to find live rock with it already living on it. but say i specifically wanted green polyps, how would i get them?
I don't know much about corals I'm the wrong person to ask about that stuff. I always have too many coral eating fish to even think about it lol.
do a lot of fish eat corals? i know i want a clown fish, a fox face, a mandarin blenny, some sort of trigger (we have a humu humu trigger with tons of character at work that i love), and possibly an angel of some sort, or dwarf angel if i normal angels get too big. as for clean up crew i was thinking snails (not sure which yet), maybe a hermit crab, and whatever other suggestions you have. would that stock work out? and would corals be a possibility with them?
humu humus are aggressive most normal angels get to big. you'll need like 20 hermit crabs, and atleast get a few mexican turbos. Also if you want less tank maintenence i highly highly highly suggest massively planting it with copepods. that stock should work just fine. the humu humu might be a little aggressive. fox face is venomous so if humu humu makes wrong move could lead to 2 dead fish. plus clowns are pretty damn mean so if a clown gets ballsy and messes with the humu humu the clown is probably dead so if you get a trigger i suggest either pink tail or male blue jaw.
Well, I'm doing trying my best not to have to order any fish online, i might order the turbo snails online though. So we do have fox faces, the humu humu, and the clown fish, we also have black clown fish. and i'd really hate to have that many hermit crabs... what clean up crew would you suggest?
you'll never even see the hermit crabs to tell you the truth.. id suggest 10-20 hermit crabs 10 mexican turbo snails a chocolate chip star fish and thousands of copepods.
I'd say 1st off what type of tank do you really want - corals or just fish. Fish can handle things like nitrate and P04 where as alot of corals cannot. Large predatory fish salt or fresh produce large amounts of solid wastes. Skimmers will help remove dissolved protiens not solids - gravel vacs do solids. W/C's are very much ness. they replenish - hydrogen, salt, calcium, mag, 02, and trace elements the tank cannot produce enuff off all by it's self. Fish don't need the UV high band to survive most corals, clams, and anemones produce their own food - photofeeding - so for corals T5 HO 10,000K minimum. Stoney corals don't like alot of dissolved protiens so skimmers are ness. for alot of corals. Salt doesn't evaporate, fish can handle flux. in salinity better than corals and inverts so daily top off for corals. 50% weekly water changes would be like $200 a month for you in salt alone - try 10% weekly and let your testkit tell you what you need and don't need. It took my 210 gal salty 7 weeks to cycle with LR, the LR should be 1/3 the total volume of the tank - this is your main filtration for your system. Your also gonna want powerheads - probably 4 - staggered on the side wall in the tank slightly facing each other - this helps eliminate dead spots/gas traps, circulates 02, and holds food for corals in suspension.
Nice details otherone, but you deff don't want powerheads none are truly built for salt, and it burns them out. You need to go with fans.
