Jyeef
New Member
Hello all!
We have a list of fish that we were getting in this order for our tank:
Clownfish (2)
Royal Gramma
Purple FireFish
High Fin Goby/Pistol Shrimp Pair
Cardinals - This hasn't worked, we've killed 5 so far before realizing that maybe we don't have the different foods or right tank for them
One spot Foxface - probably getting one this weekend
Flame Angel - maybe a month from now (and the dream fish)
So down to the cardinals. First batch we got was 3 pajamas, one died first night, next one the next night, 3rd lasted a week. We figured it may have been the source, so we tried Bangghai cardinals (2) from another store a couple weeks later. The 2nd one I think is having a rough go, one already died. These two were in for a couple weeks. During that time I've upgraded my lighting to Orphek Or3's and an OSIX controller from basically nothing. We are prepping for getting some Green Frogspawn and maybe a BTA down the road. I know we need to watch on the flame angel. We also have lots of inverts, conch, emerald crab, cleaner shrimp, trochus and turbo snails, red and blue hermits. I'd guess a total of about 20 inverts. Tank is a 75 Gallon with sump. As for parameters, the only one that's out of the ordinary is phosphates. Its been hovering about .3 for awhile now, sometimes down to .25 and as high as .33 on a hanna checker. I've upped the fuge light time in the last few weeks.
Any ideas of any other hardier fish we could try with this setup? I looked and I'm not sure about wrasses, or other gobies, and probably not chromis. We are looking for hardy/colorful/peaceful. And I'd like to get something before we get the flame angel as that should probably be the last thing we put into the tank. Thanks in advance!
We have a list of fish that we were getting in this order for our tank:
Clownfish (2)
Royal Gramma
Purple FireFish
High Fin Goby/Pistol Shrimp Pair
Cardinals - This hasn't worked, we've killed 5 so far before realizing that maybe we don't have the different foods or right tank for them
One spot Foxface - probably getting one this weekend
Flame Angel - maybe a month from now (and the dream fish)
So down to the cardinals. First batch we got was 3 pajamas, one died first night, next one the next night, 3rd lasted a week. We figured it may have been the source, so we tried Bangghai cardinals (2) from another store a couple weeks later. The 2nd one I think is having a rough go, one already died. These two were in for a couple weeks. During that time I've upgraded my lighting to Orphek Or3's and an OSIX controller from basically nothing. We are prepping for getting some Green Frogspawn and maybe a BTA down the road. I know we need to watch on the flame angel. We also have lots of inverts, conch, emerald crab, cleaner shrimp, trochus and turbo snails, red and blue hermits. I'd guess a total of about 20 inverts. Tank is a 75 Gallon with sump. As for parameters, the only one that's out of the ordinary is phosphates. Its been hovering about .3 for awhile now, sometimes down to .25 and as high as .33 on a hanna checker. I've upped the fuge light time in the last few weeks.
Any ideas of any other hardier fish we could try with this setup? I looked and I'm not sure about wrasses, or other gobies, and probably not chromis. We are looking for hardy/colorful/peaceful. And I'd like to get something before we get the flame angel as that should probably be the last thing we put into the tank. Thanks in advance!
