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Tony25
11/24/2006, 09:14 AM
My question is what are my options on adding more fish. Also i have some green hair algae on my rocks are the snails i have enough to handle it or should i buy more?



Tank specs
Tank size 55 gallon crushed coral for the substrate and about 100lbs of live rock
Lighting: 55w X 4 compact floro 2 blue 2 10k
Skimmer: coralife super skimmer 125
Flow: seio 1100 gph
Fish: yellow tang
Ocellaris Clownfish
yellow watchman goby
Strawberry dottyback
Brittle Star
2 Turbo snails like 5 nassarius and 15 asterius(sp)
4 Peppermint shrimp

Also a few zoos and mushrooms xenia and green star polops all are frags i recently put in

sean48183
11/24/2006, 01:10 PM
How about a small angel like a flame or a coral beauty? Would be a nice mix with that group.

Tony25
11/24/2006, 01:34 PM
I actualy have a flame in the tank in a bag right now that i just got :) Id like to add a Blue Mandarin i just changed from crushed coral to aragonite so i dont want to add it just yet.

Marinemom
11/24/2006, 04:59 PM
Bcause of the tang I would not add any other fish. I have a tang in my 60 gallon reef with a six line wrasse and a gold striped maroon clownfish and I think I am at my limit with this tank size.

Marinemom