So what do you guys think?

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I'm also heading to marine biology I messed up in the past with my grades and I'm not afraid to admit but this upcoming year is my senior(says YASSS LOL finally I can leave that pos) but ill be taking chemistry, marine science and ap biology which should all be cake I love science it's so easy


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Congrats and hope it all goes well. btw I want to applaud you for researching; its something our young generation almost always neglects to do.
 
Aw3s0m3 said:
I forgot to add that when I first put my fimbriated moray in my 55g reef, the tank did fine, but as it grew, the nitrates were harder to control and my corals started dying so now that tank only has shrooms and a leather, which I need to move to the reef as well now cuz it aint doin so hot, and the tank is basically a fowlr now.


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That's good to know thanks for that input ill surely take that into account


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Sounds like you're doing everything right then. The only advice right now is until you get that 90g set up, I would just keep the tank as it is because as you add corals, it will just be harder to take care of as those eels grow so once the eels are in the other tank, you should turn this one into a reef!


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Aw3s0m3 said:
Sounds like you're doing everything right then. The only advice right now is until you get that 90g set up, I would just keep the tank as it is because as you add corals, it will just be harder to take care of as those eels grow so once the eels are in the other tank, you should turn this one into a reef!


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So you recommend not to make this one big reef tank I was actually planning on turning my 29 into a sump


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vikash345678 said:
So you recommend not to make this one big reef tank I was actually planning on turning my 29 into a sump


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You can with the 90, but don't plan on keeping any crabs or shrimp cuz the eels will eat them. I'd also recommend only keeping extremely hardy corals unless you plan on doing 50% wc's every week,at least, because eels produce A LOT of waste and that gets extremely pricey. The large wc's would benefit the eels but its more for the corals to keep the water clean enough for them to thrive and as the eels move around, they will knock over the corals so you'd have to take out a piece of live rock and glue the plug or rock the coral is attached to to keep them from being knocked over. I've never kept a chainlink before but my fimbriated is extremely aggressive and will attack fish that are WAY too big to eat. I just lost a pearlscale butterfly a couple weeks ago so I got a copperband that was twice as big hoping it wouldn't bother, but he got him as well so I'm forced to keep the tank as is. You may get lucky though because when I first got mine last year, it ate 5 of my 7 chromis and the 2 that survived haven't been touched and have grown pretty large.
For the sump, grab the largest skimmer you can fit in it and I would set up a separate 10g tank for chaeto to try to keep the nitrates down.


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Aw3s0m3 said:
You can with the 90, but don't plan on keeping any crabs or shrimp cuz the eels will eat them. I'd also recommend only keeping extremely hardy corals unless you plan on doing 50% wc's every week,at least, because eels produce A LOT of waste and that gets extremely pricey. The large wc's would benefit the eels but its more for the corals to keep the water clean enough for them to thrive and as the eels move around, they will knock over the corals so you'd have to take out a piece of live rock and glue the plug or rock the coral is attached to to keep them from being knocked over. I've never kept a chainlink before but my fimbriated is extremely aggressive and will attack fish that are WAY too big to eat. I just lost a pearlscale butterfly a couple weeks ago so I got a copperband that was twice as big hoping it wouldn't bother, but he got him as well so I'm forced to keep the tank as is. You may get lucky though because when I first got mine last year, it ate 5 of my 7 chromis and the 2 that survived haven't been touched and have grown pretty large.
For the sump, grab the largest skimmer you can fit in it and I would set up a separate 10g tank for chaeto to try to keep the nitrates down.


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That pretty much what I did for my 20 gallon, I grabbed a 10 gallon and fit the biggest skimmer I could which was rated for 65 gallons and then made a section for a refugium.


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Aw3s0m3 said:
You can with the 90, but don't plan on keeping any crabs or shrimp cuz the eels will eat them. I'd also recommend only keeping extremely hardy corals unless you plan on doing 50% wc's every week,at least, because eels produce A LOT of waste and that gets extremely pricey. The large wc's would benefit the eels but its more for the corals to keep the water clean enough for them to thrive and as the eels move around, they will knock over the corals so you'd have to take out a piece of live rock and glue the plug or rock the coral is attached to to keep them from being knocked over. I've never kept a chainlink before but my fimbriated is extremely aggressive and will attack fish that are WAY too big to eat. I just lost a pearlscale butterfly a couple weeks ago so I got a copperband that was twice as big hoping it wouldn't bother, but he got him as well so I'm forced to keep the tank as is. You may get lucky though because when I first got mine last year, it ate 5 of my 7 chromis and the 2 that survived haven't been touched and have grown pretty large.
For the sump, grab the largest skimmer you can fit in it and I would set up a separate 10g tank for chaeto to try to keep the nitrates down.


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Gotcha what is chaeto


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