Advice appreciated please.
I've had my 55g corner setup for 8 months now. Went on holiday recently and lost a few bits but the rest seem settled now. I'd like to get some more corals but I'm not sure what to try. Most of what I have seems happier in the deeper, less turbulent areas of my tank. So I don't have much up the top in the brightest areas or in the direct flow areas. I'm reluctant to alter my set-up too much now as it seems to work but I would like to fill the gaps.
Embarasingly enough I can't name everything in my tank but the following covers 90% of what's there:
9 T snails
1 Large Meat Eating Snail? (Lives in the substrate with a little snorkel poking out of the sand. He comes out when he smells food. I feed him with a cockel now and again and he eats the lot in a couple of minutes)
1 Blue Star Fish
5 R legged Hermits
1 Mythrax
1 Sulphur Goby, 1 Stripped Goby & 1 Sand Sifter Goby
1 Orchid
1 Maroon Clown
3 Chromis
1 BTA
1 red soft coral? (likes shade and lives in a cave, lots of white poplys visible each morning before I turn the Halide on)
Few small blue shrooms
Large green shrooms
Pulsing Xenia
Small hammer coral
I'm running a large canister filter empty which provides a lot of water movement (with carbon once in a while).
Two small power heads and a crap hang on back skimmer (soon to be replaced with new Deltec MCE-300).
I have a 150w MH built into the hood along side two 14" actinics. The tank has a glass cover directly above the surface and the MH lamp only sits a couple of inches above this so the light at the top of the tank is really quite intense (I suck the heat out of the hood with a shower extrator fan but my tank still runs generally a bit hot through the day 83-86!)
I'm a bit lazy and my maintenance parameters aren't the best but they're ok. Generally do 20% RO water change every 2 weeks.
Can anyone advise me what I might look at that would do well in direct flow and intense light please?
Also, comments on my setup welcome...I'm thick skinned so feel free to chastise!
Oh, I was also considering a clam down the bottom, what do think given what I've said about my setup?
I've had my 55g corner setup for 8 months now. Went on holiday recently and lost a few bits but the rest seem settled now. I'd like to get some more corals but I'm not sure what to try. Most of what I have seems happier in the deeper, less turbulent areas of my tank. So I don't have much up the top in the brightest areas or in the direct flow areas. I'm reluctant to alter my set-up too much now as it seems to work but I would like to fill the gaps.
Embarasingly enough I can't name everything in my tank but the following covers 90% of what's there:
9 T snails
1 Large Meat Eating Snail? (Lives in the substrate with a little snorkel poking out of the sand. He comes out when he smells food. I feed him with a cockel now and again and he eats the lot in a couple of minutes)
1 Blue Star Fish
5 R legged Hermits
1 Mythrax
1 Sulphur Goby, 1 Stripped Goby & 1 Sand Sifter Goby
1 Orchid
1 Maroon Clown
3 Chromis
1 BTA
1 red soft coral? (likes shade and lives in a cave, lots of white poplys visible each morning before I turn the Halide on)
Few small blue shrooms
Large green shrooms
Pulsing Xenia
Small hammer coral
I'm running a large canister filter empty which provides a lot of water movement (with carbon once in a while).
Two small power heads and a crap hang on back skimmer (soon to be replaced with new Deltec MCE-300).
I have a 150w MH built into the hood along side two 14" actinics. The tank has a glass cover directly above the surface and the MH lamp only sits a couple of inches above this so the light at the top of the tank is really quite intense (I suck the heat out of the hood with a shower extrator fan but my tank still runs generally a bit hot through the day 83-86!)
I'm a bit lazy and my maintenance parameters aren't the best but they're ok. Generally do 20% RO water change every 2 weeks.
Can anyone advise me what I might look at that would do well in direct flow and intense light please?
Also, comments on my setup welcome...I'm thick skinned so feel free to chastise!
Oh, I was also considering a clam down the bottom, what do think given what I've said about my setup?
