steveo9043
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Now your making me want to setup a similar tank! Those are gorgeous!This is my inspiration...
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Mrs. Smitty's Gorgonian tank
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Triggerdood
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Have you thought about possibly putting a pair of Seahorses in there? Would be a great tank for them.
Smitty
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Smitty
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She's still playing with the idea of what to place in there...and that'll be greatly appreciated sir. Thank you!
Smitty
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That's exactly what I was thinking of putting in there at first..the only issue I see is that all the corals need moderately high water flow, and seahorses need more gentler waters. So it'll be too much flow for them I think.
Triggerdood
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They actually would do fine in a tank with flow, as long as you have an area or two that are calm.
Smitty
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In that case, looks like we might be getting seahorses, and maybe pipefish too. She'll be excited.
maidia
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This is my inspiration...
I want one too..Dang it's nice..OK I got a tank for those..
Smitty
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Lol...go for it Mai, that way I'll have someone to swap with. We all know you always get the good stuff.
Triggerdood
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Pipefish work, you can also keep some other fish with them as well. As long as they aren't aggressive/territorial, and won't out compete the horses for food. I had a ywg/pistol shrimp, Bengaii Cardinal, and a Pearly Jawfish with mine.
steveo9043
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Smitty I'm sure you have done research so I'm wondering what's your plans for water parameters and feeding for the non photosynthetic gorgonians
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Smitty
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Cool...Yeah, there's few options out there, but at least, there's options to add to the tank.
Smitty
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I'm glad you asked....for filtration, of course I believe in mostly natural filtration, so I've added a 3-4 in sand bed...I'll also be adding much more live rock. Since I've upgrade my protein skimmer on my mixed reef to a bubble magus, I'm putting my old aqua c remora skimmer on her tank. I've just placed the order from marinedepot for a new mj1200 pump and the prefilter box. I'll also be running carbon. Mixed in with the corals, I'll add various display micro algaes, to help with filtration. I'll be feeding the tank every few days a mix of azox, rod's food, reef chilli, which I already have tons of at home. I'll probably supplement the tank monthly with pods(if needed, but I doubt it). I think that should take care of the filtration and feedings. And of course, good ole water changes, I'll figure out the needed cycle once the tank is up and running.
steveo9043
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Sounds good! I was doing some research on them, have you thought about growing your own food? Ive read a lot of success stories by growing your own phytoplankton. Thought it might be worth looking into.
