Ryan22
11/09/2001, 02:15 PM
hi all,
After a mishap with a broken heater in my hospital tank resulted in the loss of my Dog faced puffer, I'm thinking that I might want to take my tank in a different direction.
I now have 2 blue damsels, a maroon clown and a coral beauty in my 72 gal bowfront. I am in the process of building a new stand and sump for the tank and after that I'll start to add some more fish. I currently have about 65lbs of live rock a turbofloater 1000 skimmer and a 3-5 inch sandbed sloped from 3 inches in the front of the tank to 5 inches in the back. I will be making the new sump out of a 29 gal tank and plan to use it as a sump/refugium with a 4-6 inch sand bed depending on how much southdown I have left in my closet. I can't find anymore right now.
So my real question is, with the two damsels and the maroon clown, I have some fairly aggresive fish in the tank already. What I would like to do is add some fish that stay about 3 inches or under that could hold their own against the damsels in particular, as the clown so far is very dosile. I am interested in some of the pseudocromis species, grammas, assessors and possibly a gobie, a jawfish or a pair of banggai cardinals. I have scott Michael's book, but it is a little vauge at times about compatablity between these species or multiples with in the same species/genius. What are your suggestions as possible tankmates for the fish I have? What works for you, or what has not worked for you. Feel free to add to the list, this is just research at this point, I won't be adding anything new for at least three weeks, probably longer.
TIA,
Ryan
After a mishap with a broken heater in my hospital tank resulted in the loss of my Dog faced puffer, I'm thinking that I might want to take my tank in a different direction.
I now have 2 blue damsels, a maroon clown and a coral beauty in my 72 gal bowfront. I am in the process of building a new stand and sump for the tank and after that I'll start to add some more fish. I currently have about 65lbs of live rock a turbofloater 1000 skimmer and a 3-5 inch sandbed sloped from 3 inches in the front of the tank to 5 inches in the back. I will be making the new sump out of a 29 gal tank and plan to use it as a sump/refugium with a 4-6 inch sand bed depending on how much southdown I have left in my closet. I can't find anymore right now.
So my real question is, with the two damsels and the maroon clown, I have some fairly aggresive fish in the tank already. What I would like to do is add some fish that stay about 3 inches or under that could hold their own against the damsels in particular, as the clown so far is very dosile. I am interested in some of the pseudocromis species, grammas, assessors and possibly a gobie, a jawfish or a pair of banggai cardinals. I have scott Michael's book, but it is a little vauge at times about compatablity between these species or multiples with in the same species/genius. What are your suggestions as possible tankmates for the fish I have? What works for you, or what has not worked for you. Feel free to add to the list, this is just research at this point, I won't be adding anything new for at least three weeks, probably longer.
TIA,
Ryan