damian05 44g built

[damian05]

heres my first tank just started puttin fish
got 2 damsel hate them
1 clown
1 yellow watchman
10 snails
15 hermit

 

[Tru2nr]

lookn' good love the goby...are those coral skeletons somethin you just picked up from the LFS?

 

[damian05]

yeah !!

 

[Tru2nr]

so give us the skinny how long has it been running are you doing fowlr/reef setup whats your lighting filtration all of the good stuff

 

[damian05]

so give us the skinny how long has it been running are you doing fowlr/reef setup whats your lighting filtration all of the good stuff

its been running for a month
i want to do reef but right now my calcium and alklinity arent stable yet so i am puttin in some esv B-Ionic calcium and alkalinty buffer
right now i have 4x t6 and have a eheim canister filter
i wil star soon a sump but my tank isn't drill so i have to do a hangin on over flow so thats next and also i have to do other lighting

 

[damian05]

here are some recent pictures

 

[damian05]

no comements?

 

[jfourn]

tank setup looks nice.....but im no expert im a new to reefing myself but i think ur tank is a little too young for a mandarin from what ive heard people say

 

[yungreefer2410]

yea u have a lot of fish in there i would def. get rid of the damsels. u probably gonna have to feed the manderain unless you have a lotpods ect.

 

[zeus_roush]

The tank looks good, but I would get rid of atleast the 3 stripe and fore sure the tang. I had a 3 stripe that killed a dog face puffer a panther grouper, and would even fight my clown trigger. Mind you all the fish it killed and fought with were 5 times his size. There a pain to get out of a tank. As for the tang your gonna catch alot of slack here for having a tang in that small of a tank.

 

[yungreefer2410]

it looks very small as i have a small one in my 30 gall. my tang has been the same size forever. he just matures. i will soon be upgrading to a 55 gallon so he will have to to swim in before long

 

[chrome91]

awesome tank! just want to point out the blue hippo will need a 125g and you need to order pods for that mandarin so he doesnt starve

 

[yungreefer2410]

when he gets too big i'm gonna trade him back to the store

 

[damian05]

i will trade the tang for other fishes later.

and im feeding my mandarin frozen food

 

[SeahorseBT]

Watch out for that damsel, as that species gets older it gets more territorial and will kill any fish you add to the tank when it gets older.

 

[damian05]

how can i get them out???

 

[damian05]

got the blue damsel out already i feed it a couple of flakes aas soon he when to eat got him both with the net but the stripe one jumped out