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04-16-2008, 12:04 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2007
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 |  how much coral is too much?
hey everybody, i know nothing about coral other than i want some of it in my nano tank so that it can host the clowns i want to get, this is a new project and i have nothing right now, but i hear that the best thing to do with a reef tank is to plan plan plan and take it slow, so thats what im trying to do, so anyway back to the coral, can a nano support it with minimal difficulties? what exactly does the coral do? im sry to ask such a newb question, but i want to learn everything and i know next to nothing
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04-16-2008, 12:19 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Age: 21
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When I had my nano up and running to its fullest I had:
Star Polyps- they spread but not as much as I thought they would.
Mushrooms- I would buy groups of them or just single ones to place where you please
Bubble Coral- mine did really well in my nano
Feather Duster- technically its a worm but that was my center piece
Zoas- Small frags work perfect in nano's, easy to place and spread pretty quickly.
This is just what I had setup in mine. It was a 12g nano and everything lasted well over a year and would have last longer except I went out of town, didn't turn a/c on the apartment, massive heat wave and completely fried everything in my tank. The temp was well over 100 when I got home. It was devasting.
Just be careful with nanos, not much room for error.
Good Luck!
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75 gallon: 1 yellow tang,1 cherub pygmy angel, 1 Kole Tang, 1 lawnmower blenny,1 orangespotted goby, 1 small watchman goby, 1 pearly jawfish, 2 cleaner shrimp, 4 peppermint shrimp, 1 pistol shrimp, 1 sally light foot, 1 emrald crab, 20 hermits, 5 turbos, 12 mexican turbos and 1 brittle star. And a ton of sandsifting snails. Leather toadstool, frogspawn, 2 pulsing xenia, bubble coral, brain coral, elkhorn, flavia, anthelia, a colt, a goniopora and a rock full of zoas. | |
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04-16-2008, 03:54 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2007
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do corals in any way affect the tank so i would not be able to have as many fish? i mean i only want 2 possibly 3 but im not sure about it yet, still trying to play with it in my head. i am quickly becoming an addict to all of this and i have not started to put it together yet | |
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04-16-2008, 04:18 PM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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h0w much coral is not enough should eb the question ahaha | |
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04-16-2008, 06:01 PM
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| | Caribbean Reef Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Depends on corals and other inhabitants... I had a bta that stung a bunch of my leather.. Corals don't put off any of hardly any bio load... But the do suck nutrients out of the water...
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 true perc ,1 porcelain crab, tuxedo urchin, 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, rd/blue blastos, neon grn bali slimer acro, ROB, 1 grn 1 purple tipped frogspawns, feather duster, purple, and orange rics, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, cndycane corals, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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04-17-2008, 07:50 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2007
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would you have to replenish the nutrients then or how would you fix that? is there something online that i can read? | |
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04-18-2008, 10:02 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Beverly Hills, MI Age: 17
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you can replenish the nutrients with additive or regular water changes, not all that difficult | |
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