My aquarium is a 4' 150XH (48x24x30)
Today its inhabitants are:
Small 2" sailfin tang
Small 2" Yellow Tang
2 Small Banggai Cardinals
1 Small Flame Cardinal
3 BlueGreen Chromis
1 2.5" Female squareback anthias
2 skunk cleaners
I have been quite happy with this stock list and truly thought it should be done fish-wise but lately my wife has been bugging me to add another showy-fish in.
Most of the rest of the tank will be a mix of SPS and LPS stuff. Those inhabitants are:
Unidentified Acro frag -- probably plating (green/blue)
Unidentified Acro frag -- definitely branching (green/blue) Possibly some echinata morph
Poscillopora 5" chunk
Green Star rock (5" across and growing rapidly.)
6 blue mushrooms on a 3" frag plug (at the bottom)
2 small (was one, then I broke it trying to remove the frag plug) frogspawn frags. (Healthy but probably free to a good home.)
I've considered adding in a blue-throat trigger that someone has been relatively aggressively trying to sell to me but am hesitant to put such an active fish in a tank that is only 4' long. That and the two tangs are aggressive/active enough already. Chromis don't really bother anyone and the cardinals just chill. The squareback is a bit frisky as well although I've never seen her nip at anyone...just a few 'get away from my food' runs.
Thoughts and opinions on additions?
As this tank ages a few more months, it will most likely get a clam. I've had good luck with squamosas & derasas but would like to try out a tridacna maxima...
Nutrients and elements (Ca, Mg, KH, etc) are rock solid stable.
Thanks!
Adam
Today its inhabitants are:
Small 2" sailfin tang
Small 2" Yellow Tang
2 Small Banggai Cardinals
1 Small Flame Cardinal
3 BlueGreen Chromis
1 2.5" Female squareback anthias
2 skunk cleaners
I have been quite happy with this stock list and truly thought it should be done fish-wise but lately my wife has been bugging me to add another showy-fish in.
Most of the rest of the tank will be a mix of SPS and LPS stuff. Those inhabitants are:
Unidentified Acro frag -- probably plating (green/blue)
Unidentified Acro frag -- definitely branching (green/blue) Possibly some echinata morph
Poscillopora 5" chunk
Green Star rock (5" across and growing rapidly.)
6 blue mushrooms on a 3" frag plug (at the bottom)
2 small (was one, then I broke it trying to remove the frag plug) frogspawn frags. (Healthy but probably free to a good home.)
I've considered adding in a blue-throat trigger that someone has been relatively aggressively trying to sell to me but am hesitant to put such an active fish in a tank that is only 4' long. That and the two tangs are aggressive/active enough already. Chromis don't really bother anyone and the cardinals just chill. The squareback is a bit frisky as well although I've never seen her nip at anyone...just a few 'get away from my food' runs.
Thoughts and opinions on additions?
As this tank ages a few more months, it will most likely get a clam. I've had good luck with squamosas & derasas but would like to try out a tridacna maxima...
Nutrients and elements (Ca, Mg, KH, etc) are rock solid stable.
Thanks!
Adam