fishrule101

Well I use to have a maroon clownfish and a three striped damsel but soon learned that they were not a good chose. Well I gave them to my LFS and I made up a new list. The fish are not to exceed four inches. I'm wondering if my new list is ok(again). A ocellaris clownfish, six line wrasse, purple firefish, a skunk cleaner, and a pygym angelfish. They will take up about 14 inches of space. I think they are ok.I have research them and know that angels are somewhat not reef safe. I plan on making it a somewhat reef. Well what do yall think??

sgould

Should be ok.

Wolfgang8810

the pigmy angel will probaly nip at your corals if you have any.

fishrule101

Thanks I finally get a angel in my tank!!! Oh I might just get some Exnia and polyps. I just bought the lights so I can have an anemone or two.

Wolfgang8810

what are your lights? You definatly need to slow down. It is a general rule that anemones shouldnt be kept ni tanks younger than 6 months because if they die they can and most likley will kill everything in the tank.

fishrule101

Hey is it true that black mollies can go SW?? Because there a video on youtube.

Amanda

I'm not a saltwater guru, but I know mollies are brackish water fish. I've never seen them in a saltwater set up before.

fishrule101

I haven't put in anything much less an anemone. I have T-5s and theres only crabs now.

Wolfgang8810

Yes mollies CAN be acclimate to a full SW tank, However , It needs to be done over the course of days, increasing the salinaty a little bit each day. howm any watts are your T-5's and do the bulbs have indevidual reflectors? In a 28 gallon tank i would NOT add an anemone. You can but i personally think the risk is too great. I have a 150 watt Metal Halide over my 24 gallon tank and yet i am still resisting the anemone urge. Please disregard anythign your LFS says about them chances are it wont make it.

fishrule101

Why can't I?? Whats the risk??

platy ben

Alot of people use black mollies to test out their salwater tank before they add proper saltwater fish.

Wolfgang8810

if they die they WILL kill everything in your tank. There are corals out there that are much prettier and have significantly less risk associated with them.

Like the torch coral or frog spawn

Look at my tank. I have no Anemone and yet it is as active and colorful as ever.

fishrule101

Yeah but I don't want to many corals. Remember that i'm getting a pygmy angelfish so I don't want it to think I have enough corals to go around. I want an anemone because they look cool with clownfish. It won't die if you have enough light and feed it. I' getting a toadstool coral. Its on my coral list.

platy ben

My dad has a 40G and he has 2 anenomes in their and they are fine, the lightnig is jsut standard purple lighting , dont know how many watts, but his anenomes are fine.

fishrule101

Whats the coral the clownfish is by?? The ocellaris one.

Wolfgang8810

that is a torch coral and my clowns host it oo just like an anemone without the constant worrying. Anemones also have a bad habit of wandering into a powerhead and being sucked in and chewed up.

fishrule101

Oh well I might conserd getting a torch coral instead of an anemone since they look alike so much. My powerheads have a thing about the bottom so nothing can get in only water.

fishrule101

Is it too much if I put two clownfish??