Hola everyone, I'm picking everyone's brains again. All right this is what I'm working with, a 55 gallon (48" long the height and depth I can't think of right now) with about 60lbs. of caribsea sand on top of crushed coral and shells (yes I now I realize I should have mixed these together or something now) resulting in about a 4" sand bed, about 44lbs of Fiji LR (almost entirely made up of passed over pieces, 2.50 a lbs. at
premium aquatics hehe and yeah when I can afford it I want to get about 55lbs of LR in there), about 15 lbs of lace rock I got purely for decoration before I realized I should have bought LR.
The livestock I've got is 5 turbo snails, 5 blue leg hermit crabs, 6 bumblebee snails (girlfriend liked them), one
peppermint shrimp, 3 4 stripe humbugs (damsels I need to trap), 1 yellow tailed damsel (the humbugs killed the other 2 by eating their tails) and one tomato clown, oh and some aptasia I'm hoping the peppermint eats =P.
As for hardware I've got an AquaC Remora HOT Skimmer w/MJ1200 pump, a Mj1200 powerhead, a no name powerhead, an emperor 400 filter, 1 big ol heater, and 2 NO lights (the next thing I think I need to upgrade)
That's pretty much it for now, the next thing I'm thinking about is
48" Coralife Aqualights from
www.hellolights.com I know this will probably not be enough light for anemone's but I'll be content with leathers and what not for now.
Anyway if anyone sees anything I've forgotten or can think of anything I should consider please by all means let me know, if you can think of any fish or leathers or anything, please let me know! Btw the tank is just going on 2 months old
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