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05-06-2008, 11:39 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Arvada, CO Age: 24
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 |  Nano reef fish
I am just looking at getting a 24 - 30 gallon reef tank together as my apartment too small for anything bigger. Just looking at what small when mature fish are out there im talking about 2.5 inches and less. | 
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05-07-2008, 06:08 AM
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| | Great Blue Whale
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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You could also do shrimp.. They have barely any bioload... I've had psuedochromis's, clowns, yellowtailed damsels, royal gramma's, and other's in my 12 gal nano...
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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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05-07-2008, 05:36 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Arvada, CO Age: 24
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|  Small nano fish
I have been searching and searching trying to find a good list of fish that would be better suited for nano aquariums. I have recently gotten back into the hobby now that college is done, and i have gotten my own place it is small thus the nano is a must. I picked up a Finnex 30gal M tank with no lights and i bought a 24" 380 watt mh/vho orbiter. Just trying to get a list of fish that when mature will be no longer than 3" and are reef safe | |
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05-07-2008, 06:04 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle area Age: 36
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It's just my personal pref, but if I started a nano, I'd put my clowns and BTA in there. With a few hermits and a few and scrimps.
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72g Bow Front, 2x250w MH (10 hrs), 4x65 Act (14 hrs), 6xDual Moonlights (10 hrs), 300 gph from cannister filter and powerhead, Prizm hang-on protein skimmer, 50 lbs LR, CC Bed
Yellow Tang, 2 Clowns, Bubble Tip Anemone, 2 Yellow Tail, Humbug, White Spot, Ornate Goby, Emerald Crab, Sally Lightfoot Crab, 2 Blue Legged Hermits, 15 Scarlet Hermits, +Snails with no names (margaritas, turbos, astraeas) | |
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05-07-2008, 06:08 PM
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| | Tassled File Fish
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Certain Clowns, six line, yellow clown goby, neon blue.gold goby, jawfish with precision feeding, firefish, some chromis......and some shrimp of course. _________  | |
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05-07-2008, 10:53 PM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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i would def. put clown fish in there, its a must have, some cleaner shrimp, neon blue blennies, chromis? oh the black percula's are awsome! | |
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05-07-2008, 10:59 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Maybe some more exotic damsels like talbot damsels. They're gorgeous. Almost any goby.
A flasher wrasse would do well. Not a school mind you, but a male. Try a mccosker's or for a similar looking, but cheaper alternative, a carpenter's flasher wrasse. Just make sure that the tank is covered since they are known jumpers.
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55gal,260 watt PC(2x65 actinic,2x65 10k daylight,8 lunar LED) 45#LR, 45#LS, 3 maxi-jet 900's on a natural wavemaker timer,phosban reactor, 5 gal fuge (built out of standard 10 gallon tank) with chaeto, grape, and feather caulerpa, sealife systems protein skimmer, wet/dry, 4 blue/green chromi, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 2 lyretail anthias, 1 royal gramma,1 true perc 5 mexican turbo snails, assorted dwarf blue leg hermits, astrea snails, and nerite snails | |
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05-08-2008, 03:37 AM
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| | Tassled File Fish
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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A chromis or two would be fine in a 10 gal or higher. but not lower  | |
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05-08-2008, 07:38 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Good suggestions above...
I would consider adding... Rainford's Goby
Latin Name Ambligobius rainfordi
Common Name Rainford's Goby
a.k.a. Rainford's Goby, Old Glory 
Very beautiful, relatively inexpensive, and generally available fish that is great for a Nano...very peaceful, albiet a bit shy till has been in tank for a long time.
Stays very small --- 1 1/2" max.
Mine fell victom to Snowflake Eel in Nano. Eel now moved out and am awaiting replacement goby from LFS...
Keep eye out for one.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!) | |
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05-08-2008, 07:45 AM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tulsa, Ok Age: 28
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chromis, clowns, 6 line wrasse, or you could do a really cool species tank, I.E. seahorses or something simular, thats what my 24g will end up as when i setup my new 75 _________ 24G JBJ Nano, 20# Live Sand, 40# Live Rock
Rose BTA, Kenya Tree, Frogspawn, Xenia, bubble coral
Blue/Green Chromis, 6 Line Wrasse, 2x Black & White Percs, Dragon Goby
58G Oceanic, 60# LS, 60 LR, Lots of goodies  | |
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