As you all know I was having a series of problems with my 187 gallon saltwater before. I thought I'd update everyone on the tank. I removed all artificial corals and barnacles, and bought another 50 pounds of LR. I'm still adding more rock, but the tankmate list has changed as well. I had added a diamond sleeper goby, but it burrowed under a rock and got crushed. The thin mandarin didn't make it, and the filefish jumped out through a hole in the lid. This is the current list of animals in the tank.
1 Heniochus acuminatus
1 Centropyge bicolor
1 Gramma loreto
2 Amphiprion percula
1 Sphaeramia nematoptera
1 Cleaner shrimp
50 Astraea snails
Caulerpa prolifera
New additions:
25 blue leg hermits
1 Hammer Coral
~20 Assorted Mushroom Anemones
1 clump of Zoanthids
1 Plating Montipora
1 Bubble Coral
The coraline is really taking off, the coral is growing very fast, and the grazers all keep the hair algae in perfect balance. It is really starting to take off now. The coral is even doing well under compound Flourescent lighting! The heni doesn't bother any corals, but she devoured all my aiptasia.;-) Still planning on adding:
1 Bubble Anemone
1 Brown Sebae Anemone (white are unhealthy)
Various Soft Corals
Xenia
More zoanthids
More hermits
More LR
a yellow tang
a hippo tang
7 ignitus anthias
9 green chromis
1 Long nosed Hawkfish
1 Leopard Wrasse
2 More cleaner shrimp
Sorry for the novel, but thought I'd share.
1 Heniochus acuminatus
1 Centropyge bicolor
1 Gramma loreto
2 Amphiprion percula
1 Sphaeramia nematoptera
1 Cleaner shrimp
50 Astraea snails
Caulerpa prolifera
New additions:
25 blue leg hermits
1 Hammer Coral
~20 Assorted Mushroom Anemones
1 clump of Zoanthids
1 Plating Montipora
1 Bubble Coral
The coraline is really taking off, the coral is growing very fast, and the grazers all keep the hair algae in perfect balance. It is really starting to take off now. The coral is even doing well under compound Flourescent lighting! The heni doesn't bother any corals, but she devoured all my aiptasia.;-) Still planning on adding:
1 Bubble Anemone
1 Brown Sebae Anemone (white are unhealthy)
Various Soft Corals
Xenia
More zoanthids
More hermits
More LR
a yellow tang
a hippo tang
7 ignitus anthias
9 green chromis
1 Long nosed Hawkfish
1 Leopard Wrasse
2 More cleaner shrimp
Sorry for the novel, but thought I'd share.