:joke: Some of you may remember that on 10-2-06 my reef crashed in large part to adding a chemical to my reef called chemi clean to aid in the erradication of a severe outbreak of cynobacteria. I know that many will disagree with me when I say that the addition of this chemical to my reef is to blame for the ultimate demise of my reef,but the one thing I do know is that after adding this chemical within 24 hours everything in my reef was either dead or dying. It has been five weeks since that awful event. I was completely devastated and was not even sure if I wanted to bring the reef back. Since that has happened five weeks ago I have been taking baby steps to try and bring this reef back.In the crash two of my fish died, one being a prized yellow tang, all of my inverts, and almost all of my corals. I managed to keep a few corals alive since then along with a purple tang, a gold striped maroon clownfish, and a six line wrasse. All are doing fine and are very healthy. I did add back some inverts in the line of snails and hermit crabs to aid in the clean up of this reef about a week after the crash and they are also doing fine. There have been no additions to this reef in more than a month. Actually it is more like six weeks.
Sooo...now I am thinking it is time to start thinking about what to do next with this reef. I am thinking it is getting to the time to think about what other additions I want to make in the line of corals and fish.
The tank is 60 gallons with 89 pounds of live rock in it. It has been up and running for just over ten months. It has a CSS 125 running on the system 24/7. It also has five powerheads as well to aid with the flow. There is also an aquaclear 70/300 running too to help with the flow. The lighting is 260 watts of PC lighting. The current residents as stated above are a purple tang, a gold striped maroon clown fish, and a six line wrasse as well as a crew of snails and hermit crabs.
The stats of my tank are as follows;
Tank;60 gallons
89 pounds of live rock
Skimmer;CSS 125
Powerheads; five
Additional filteration;aquaclear 70/300
Ammonia;0
nitrite;0
nitrate;0
PH;8.2
SG;1.026
temp.76 degrees on the farenheight scale.
I am thinking of adding some kind of coral or fish first. As far as the corals I am thinking of either a frogspawn or a hammer coral(both died in the crash).I understand that they are rather hardy as long as they are well taken care of.If you have another suggestion, please chime in. What suggestions would you have in the line of fish for this reef taking into account the present residents. I know that the tang has the potential to get big so I have to consider everything very carefully. At the moment he is quite docile but I know with the addition of a new fish this could change. I am thinking somewhere along the lines of a goby or a dwarf angel. What do you think about a small school of chromis or is this a bad idea?
I am open for suggestions.
Marinemom
Sooo...now I am thinking it is time to start thinking about what to do next with this reef. I am thinking it is getting to the time to think about what other additions I want to make in the line of corals and fish.
The tank is 60 gallons with 89 pounds of live rock in it. It has been up and running for just over ten months. It has a CSS 125 running on the system 24/7. It also has five powerheads as well to aid with the flow. There is also an aquaclear 70/300 running too to help with the flow. The lighting is 260 watts of PC lighting. The current residents as stated above are a purple tang, a gold striped maroon clown fish, and a six line wrasse as well as a crew of snails and hermit crabs.
The stats of my tank are as follows;
Tank;60 gallons
89 pounds of live rock
Skimmer;CSS 125
Powerheads; five
Additional filteration;aquaclear 70/300
Ammonia;0
nitrite;0
nitrate;0
PH;8.2
SG;1.026
temp.76 degrees on the farenheight scale.
I am thinking of adding some kind of coral or fish first. As far as the corals I am thinking of either a frogspawn or a hammer coral(both died in the crash).I understand that they are rather hardy as long as they are well taken care of.If you have another suggestion, please chime in. What suggestions would you have in the line of fish for this reef taking into account the present residents. I know that the tang has the potential to get big so I have to consider everything very carefully. At the moment he is quite docile but I know with the addition of a new fish this could change. I am thinking somewhere along the lines of a goby or a dwarf angel. What do you think about a small school of chromis or is this a bad idea?
I am open for suggestions.
Marinemom
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