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true.people break up LR and put it in their sumps for bio filtration.
 
personally i like the longnosed or pixy hawks but, what ever floats your boat.
what else are you gonna put in there?
 
A couple clowns (a must with little kids) and the rest is open to sugestions I only want one maybe two more fish.
 
by clown fish you mean the nemo ones right, ocellarus's? if you're gonna i would sugest just getting true perculas. they're a little bit more expensive but in my mind worth it.

i would skip the hippo tang. even tho they get to the right size for this kinda tank they swim around way too much and need more space.
i would get;
a couple of chromis
some firefish
a coral beauty ot flame angel
yellow tang
clown gobies
scissortail gobies
zebra lined dartfish
jawfish
alot of options 55 is a good size for some of the smaller marine fish.

what are you gonna do for inverts?
you've got adaquite lighting for some lower light corals and anenomes.
 
Right now I have about 8 hermit crabs about 10 snails a Sally Lightfoot crab and a coral banded shrimp oh yeah and the mystery conch. What else and how many would you suggest.
 
This may sound like a dumb question but I have to ask. How hard is it to keep sea horses alive? We went to the zoo and the kids now want one but I have heard they are a waste of money bacause the die easily.
 
that and they are hard to feed, in some places you need a permit to have them and i just dont think that they are that interesting, they usually just sit there. i'd say get a dwarf lion but if the kids are gonna be sticking there hands in there ***etabowtit!
 
No hands in the tank they know that. Would a dwarf be ok I would love to put a Lion in there but I wasn't sure
 
yeah dwarfs are fine but may eat your clowns if they aren't the bigger species. that a yellow tang and like a coral or flame angel would be great.
you could get a sand goby or damsel (like a domino or other large damsel) and put those in early so that they can grow before the lion is added so that he wont eat them.
 
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