PLZ Help on a 20 gallon FOWLR

Stingray81

I finally got him to eat! It took him a while haha i know lionfish get really big so you don't have to tell me there was a 1'3" lion at lfs! But i will probably end up upgrading sometime again lfs guy said i should get a tang of some kind he said yellow tangs fit in pretty good with lions?, but ya i will upgrade again when he gets about 7-8"
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Stingray81

just curious,do i need to upgrade my lighting if i want to grow corals??? i have a current nova Extreme 2x T5HO im wantingto grow some polyps and some other stuff

Reefing Madness

Lighting- Yes on using a T5 HO fixture for keeping corals. Try and get one with 4 lamps in it.

badxgillen

you can grow a number of corals under T-8 and T5s its has much to do with spectrum and tank depth.although upgradeing wouldnt hurt i have several systems running on some of the least sought after lighting fixtures with the proper bulbs that contain numerous corals.

Stingray81

ok guys, my tank is going great i got a Coral Beauty Angel about a week ago,dewey the lionfish is doing great also i got him off the live food and back onto frozen krill & silversides.Hopefully i will be getting in a large shipment of corals from liveaquaria.com i got a really nice new light , i think it is good,better than my old current usa extreme

also wanted to ask you guys about sumps, currently i have 2 HOB double filters with carbon media, and a coralife superskimmer HOB.The main reason i want to run a sump is so i can hide all of my stuff and have a fuge i have a ten gallon tank i can use would that be good?

Reefing Madness

10 gallon sumps are rough to handle. They tend not to hold enough water, once you have an outage, the water lowers to a cetain level in the DT and also drains the lines to the sump, your Sump must be able to handle this water.

teddybear23

hello everyone, im sorry im typing this on here... but i really need help.
im starting a new saltwater fish only tank that i have set up for 3 going in 4th day now, and my waters gone cloudy, i know its just form the bacteria bloom, ( sorry if i named it wrong ) , but my real problem is my friend gave me a pair of clownfish a few days ago, and i cant really say no because it was also a gift from his parents.. i know i cant put it in the tank right now so i have it at a fish store the my friend works at, when his boss found out he said that i could only keep it for about a week, and now my week is almost up, what should i do? i really would love to keep them because they mean alot to me, but i still dk what to do, please help help..
once again i am very sorry that i have this post on here, but i am new on this site n dk what to do 0.o......

teddybear23

just one more thing sorry :).....
i also have a 55g tank with 11 baby red belly piranhas, ( i know its still too small, but im going on for a 85g in a few weeks )

Reefing Madness

Get your buddy to give you a bunch of Live Rock from his tank, that will take your cycle down to a couple of days. The cloudy water is an Ammonia bloom.

Stingray81

my reef is looking sweet,only 1 problem i got 2 tangs at my lfs 2day the reason i got 2 is because they had a deal if you get 2 then its a cheaper price...long story.....anyways 1 is a blue hippo tang and 1 is a Yellow Tang and the guy told me they should get along together if both are same size and both are introduced at same time. well i brought em home acclimated for aprox 30 mins and put them in and they are "butting there tails together" it doesn't look like a major problem to me there both eating REALLY well as soon as i brought them home i fed the tank including them and they had no problem sucking down the flakes i gave them,im just a little worried because everytime they get close to each other they hit each other both are doing well its just that they don't get along,should i be worried about this or will they get over it? plz reply back asap!!!
thanks