What to put in 36 gallon bowfront??

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I just picked up a 36 gallon bowfront, tank, stand, hood lights, and power filter for 60 bucks! :) :) :) I want to start my first saltwater tank. I will start off with some damsels, but then I am going to want to upgrade. I really like the bicolor pseudochromis, kaudern's cardinals, numerous anthias, and snowflake eels. Do you think I could put all of these together? Also, should I switch to a skilter power filter? It has power filter + protein skimmer combined.
 
With that bioload that skimmer wont help you much in the long run. Depends on how much you are willing to spend, the aqua c remora is a great hang on back skimmer and works very well.
 
I wouldnt put a snowflake in there. It will get too big and gets too strong and will quite possible move all of the rocks around in a tank like that. Unless you just had a couple of big bits of rock then i suppose he might be ok but the tanks still abit small.
 
in a 36 Gallon ... I would put a Remora AquaC as suggested previously ... as it is much better and quieter than skilter... in your tank...I would place one pair of Banggai cardinal , one pair of clownfish and if you have patience to feed several times a days , some bicolor anthias or squamipinis anthias to put some splash and color... a tang like clown , sohal or any other will also more life to your tank...
I would not keep the moray...as you will have to leave the smaller fishes in future (removing or having them removed by the moray...) ...Pseudocromis are fine, but really aggressive...maybe if you really like them... put as last addition... or choose another milder species as fridmani, sankeys, spledid as usually they become too pugnacious to a small tank like yours...
 
Thanks for the help, I picked up the tank yesterday and it is actually a 46 gallon bowfront :) I just filled the tank to let it sit overnight to see if it leaks. It didnt clean up completely but enough for me to use it. If I got the mooray at say 8" and the thickness of a pencil, would the other fish grow at a steady enough pace to where he probably wouldnt eat them? I want damsels to start, then I want the snowflake, 1 anthia, 1 fire clownfish, and a bicolor angel. And maybe even a fuzzy dwarf lionfish. What do you guys thing?
 
That sounds like alot of fish for the tank. Plus that eel is going to make a snack out of pretty much anything you put in there regardless of its size at time of purchase. He'll grow pretty quick and definitely snap at other fish even if he couldnt swallow them whole. Were you thinking about making it a reef tank in the future? This could also effect fish choice now.
 
What are the actual dimensions? I think its still probs abit small for the eel but im not sure of the dimensions. Ignore all these people saying a snowfalke will eat everyting else in there. There is a risk it could happen but heaps of people have snowflakes and zebras with small fish and have no problems.
 
What's the latest on keeping Anthias alive for long periods of time? From what I had read in the past, they do not live long in captivity, so you may want to scratch that off of your list.
Have you checked out hawkfishes ? Several ssp - great fish, as are gobies. Frogfish are awesome too.
 
haywood;721850; said:
The dimensions are 36" long x 15" wide x 21" high
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You could keep a small snowflake in there but he will grow out of it fairly quickly. As i said before they are very strong and if they want more space then they have, they wriggle between rocks pushing them apart possibly causing cave ins.
If you really wanted one look into some of the smaller species. Unfortunately most of them are fish eaters unlike the snowflake and shouldnt really go with small fish.
 
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