new 30gal salt.

[Malawi-]

Good good!

 

[Fry]

Unless you upgrade your lighting big time you won't be able to keep any corals. Might as well go with fish only or fish only with live rock.

 

[BIGgourami]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133011

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143265

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143265

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132787


stickies are helpful my friend

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

i think im gonna stay away from corals and just do some live rock. and def get one of these guys. i love mandarins.

 

[BIGgourami]

eh....
you'd either need a fuge
like 60 pounds of live rock
or find one that eats frozen foods..

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

heres what im thinkin so far

green mandarin
yellowhead or dusky jawfish
watchmans goby
scooter blenny
some sort of cleaner shrimp(s)
some sort of star fish possibly.

just some ideas, what do you guys think will work?

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

anyone?

 

[Nanoreefer]

Mandarin fish of any species aren't really suitable for a community tank.It would be hard to feed them,as they require livefoods,and I've yet to hear of one who will take frozen.Plus the tank should be established so that copepods have grown on the rocks.However,I've yet to try manadarin fish.

 

[Reefscape]

heres what im thinkin so far

green mandarin
yellowhead or dusky jawfish
watchmans goby
scooter blenny
some sort of cleaner shrimp(s)
some sort of star fish possibly.

just some ideas, what do you guys think will work?

I would not house a mandarin in this size of tank, too small as i dont feel you would have enough live rock to get fully established with copepods..Scooter Blenny is NOT a blenny, is a dragonete and should be treated the same as the mandarin...so, a no no in my eyes..

Jawfish - Tank not suitable..would need 4 - 6 inches of mixed coarse and fine substrate for this fish to burrow safely.

No issues with the cleaner shrimp or watchman goby...

Starfish - No, unless you get a brittle star...which would still quite possibly need target feeding...If you chose brittle, saty away from the green star, very predatcious...

 

[sweeTang21]

mandarians are not the best idea right now. Many say there fine in that small of a tank, but the more breeding ground for pods, the better, IE larger tanks, fuges and a lot of LR and macro algaes. Macro algaes in sumps provide massive breeding grounds for amphipods and copepods and other micro crustaceans, and is deffinantly going to be needed.