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Old 07-05-2009, 09:17 AM
Chillinator
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Re: First Marine Tank

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Originally Posted by SteveLawrence View Post
Hi Jimmy


This would be my selection of fish



Tank Bred Tomato Clown, Mail Order Tank Bred Tomato Clown delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Yellowtail Damselfish, Mail Order Yellowtail Damselfish delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Yellow Boxfish, Mail Order Yellow Boxfish delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Tank Bred Percula Clown, Mail Order Tank Bred Percula Clown delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Falcula Butterfly, Mail Order Falcula Butterfly delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Longnose Butterflyfish, Mail Order Longnose Butterflyfish delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Spotted Cardinalfish, Mail Order Spotted Cardinalfish delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Green Mandarin, Mail Order Green Mandarin delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Foxface Lo, Mail Order Foxface Lo delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Powder Blue Tang, Mail Order Powder Blue Tang delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Sailfin Tang, Mail Order Sailfin Tang delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Yellow Tang, Mail Order Yellow Tang delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

AND MY FAVOURITE

Clown Triggerfish, Mail Order Clown Triggerfish delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

MOST SEEM TO BE YELLOW FISH FROM THIS SITE BUT THAT WOULD BE MY SELECTION APPART FROM MY DOUBTFUL FAVOURITE


This would be my selection of crabs invertebrates

Flame Scallop, Mail Order Flame Scallop delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Bulb Anemone, Mail Order Bulb Anemone delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Boxer Crab, Mail Order Boxer Crab delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Electric Blue Hermit Crab, Mail Order Electric Blue Hermit Crab delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab, Mail Order Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Sally Lightfoot Crab, Mail Order Sally Lightfoot Crab delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Stars If I had one
Would this one be OK ?

Linckia Sea Star, Blue, Mail Order Linckia Sea Star, Blue delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Soft Corals . I can live without hard corals

Toadstool Leather Coral, Mail Order Toadstool Leather Coral delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Orange SPonge, Mail Order Orange SPonge delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Sea Squirt, Mail Order Sea Squirt delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Red Mushroom, Mail Order Red Mushroom delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Spotted Mushroom, Mail Order Spotted Mushroom delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Devils Leather Finger, Mail Order Devils Leather Finger delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

Like all these polyps

Polyps - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

And these

Two Species coral rock, Mail Order Two Species coral rock delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk

What About Moss Balls ?

Mossballs, Mail Order Mossballs delivered to your door - AquaticLifeDirect.co.uk


Cheers
You can't put all of those fish in at the same time, otherwise you would have a miniature ecological nightmare.

These would be my own recommendations out of your list...

2x Percula or Common clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris), larger species such as the Maroon clownfish (Premnas bicolor) can be very aggressive.
1-2x Spotted cardinalfish

Along with... (assuming you are buying the larger Red Sea aquarium)

1x Yellow watchman goby
1x Dwarf angel (Centropyge sp.), some species can nip corals however one of the safest species is the Coral beauty.
1x Pseudochromis sp. or Royal Gramma (Gramma loreto)

Recommended corals...

Sarcophyton sp. (The toadstool and Leather finger corals belong to this genus)
Red mushrooms (quite easy to keep)
Spotted mushrooms
Lobophyton sp.
Sinularia sp. (other finger corals)
Xenia sp.
Ricordea sp.

Inverts:

Shrimp species such as the Cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) and the Peppermint shrimp (Lysmata wurdmanii)

Blue leg hermit crabs

Linckia sp. starfish (however these do need good water quality)

Astraea snails

Other little critters which appear on the live rock, such as copepods, feather dusters, small crabs, polyps etc. Keep your eyes peeled for a common pest anemone known as Aiptasia.

Possibly an Emerald mithrax crab to control bubble algae.

NOT recommended for reasons which I have listed below...

Fish...

Yellowtail Damselfish- Quite aggressive

Yellow Boxfish- Too big

Facula butterflyfish- Too big and these do require a constant food supply of sponges, which can be very hard to maintain.

Longnose butterflyfish- Too big and the same dietary requirements as above.

Green mandarin- Too difficult, these rarely last long in most tanks due to lack of a suitable food supply, notably Copepods.

Foxface- Too big and these are venomous.

Powder blue tang- Too big

Sailfin tang- Too big

Yellow tang- Too big

Clown Triggerfish- Too big and quite aggressive.

Corals...

Sponges- Difficult to keep.

SPS hard corals- Quite difficult to keep and very demanding of light, calcium, water quality etc.

Inverts...

Bulb anemones- Very few anemones last long in aquariums.

Boxer crabs- Can eat small fish.

And finally...

The mossballs, these are freshwater aquarium plants. Put them inside a marine tank and they won't last very long.

Last edited by Chillinator; 08-05-2009 at 04:10 PM..
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