Learning the hard way..... i think.....HELP!!!

[stagofdoom]

my yellow tang died last night!..


i tried to find him a new home:disappoin


but i got my novas in this morning! and they give the tank a whole new look!

That sucks. I just read the whole thread and i think everyone else has you covered.

Just remember. The best thing for this hobby is patience.

 

[dustin_P74]

sorry to hear about your loss, that sucks

 

[yote]

Hate to hear about the tang.
But congrats on the lights.

 

[iceiscool]

Hello! I got myself into some difficulty setting up my own tank, but got a big lift after viewing this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTmyVeKunM

 

[dustin_P74]

good video but it was annoying having all the tips at the bottom being blocked by the damn URL

 

[jimmybling31]

i enjoyed reading this. it gave me some good information on how to stock my tank (timing it. i have a weird way i want to stock so I'll try it...if it doesn't work i lose 40 dollars in fish and have one very pretty fish)

 

[dustin_P74]

what is your plan

 

[jimmybling31]

what is your plan

fuzzy dwarf lionfish, some type of goby(still don't know what type yet still doing research), 1 clarki clown, and some small wrasse(i might take that one off the list, I was gonna add it last)

before I was gonna add 1 fish a week, but i guess I need to be more patient and space them out more. I am adding the lionfish first though. it's always been one of my favorite marine fish and getting a dwarf is just my way of getting one without needing a big tank.lol. I will get a volitan when I have my 75 set up as marine though. I really like the way they look.

 

[dustin_P74]

putting a dwarf lion, goby, clown and wrasse in a 29 gallon might be pushing the bioload

 

[jimmybling31]

putting a dwarf lion, goby, clown and wrasse in a 29 gallon might be pushing the bioload

i have a 10 gallon sump that will be finished with refugium and powerful skimmer. the tank already has 25 pounds of live rock and another 10 cured and ready to be put in. I am doing it very slowly though ( rock a week, and it hasn't had a lapse in its cycle yet. I have been at 0amonia, 0 nitrite, and 0 nitrates for almost a month now.) bioload is the main thing I am worried about though. I am doing all I can to make it managable. like I said the wrasse might not go in it, i might not put the goby in it. I would rather have the wrasse than the goby, but who knows. i putting in the lion or clown friday as the first fish in the tank.

 

[yote]

Add the lion last.That way your smaller fish have already adjusted to the tank and wont become a snack as soon as they hit the water.

 

[jimmybling31]

Add the lion last.That way your smaller fish have already adjusted to the tank and wont become a snack as soon as they hit the water.

right now the lions at the store I'd be buying them from are only 2 inches wide (including their beautiful fins), they aren't big enough to eat any of the fish I'd be adding. the clarki is the one I am worried about adding really. the clarki I am getting is one mean dude and already 2.5 inches long. I don't want him in there first at all. I know if he was in there first he would harass anything.

 

[dustin_P74]

well dont be worried i dont think he would go after a goby, and if he were to go after the lion, he would never do it again

 

[jimmybling31]

well dont be worried i dont think he would go after a goby, and if he were to go after the lion, he would never do it again

think he would get stung?

 

[dustin_P74]

yes i do

 

[yote]

think he would get stung?

Without a doubt.

 

[hoopsdaddy]

Jkeating2005, officially hijacked! ha

 

[jimmybling31]

Without a doubt.

haha. think it would kill him?

 

[yote]

Doubt it,But it could happen.

 

[jkeating2005]

yes i was... lol. but i lost my coral beauty yedterday and all the others have white spots all over them!
:bowdown:
:dunno::dunno::-(:-(:cry::cry: