Chromis Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 In the chat room here asking different people for advise on what I can and can't keep in a 15g tank w/ 3g refugium. Everyone seems to have totally different things they hate and totally different numbers. Anyways here is what one person's (to remain un-named) stocking recommendations: 30 lbs Live Rock 15 assorted snails 15 blue-leg hermits 1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp 2 Peppermint Shrimp 1 Sally Light-foot Crab 1 Emerald Crab Not to mention corals and 2 small fish (False Perc & Six-Line Wrasse) Just thougt I'd share. Thoughts.... Link to comment
Nishant3789 Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 tahts not too bad, u relaly doint need ALL that live rock in my opinion but it wont hurt and itll make ure tank look nicer, as for the inhabiants all looks good cept fo the shrimps and emerald crabs, im not sure if they will get along someone more knowldgable will be able to help u there hopefully, but 2 fish is definetly feasable in a 15 gallon with a 3 gallon refugium hth nishant Link to comment
Chromis Posted June 24, 2002 Author Share Posted June 24, 2002 Aren't the number of snails/hermits high? Also 3 shrimp and 2 crabs? These with coral and fish seems I'd run out of room on the rocks for all this stuff. Link to comment
SLOreefer Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 i personally agree with the amount of rock. i like lots. he crabs and stuff....i wouldnt put an emerald crab or sallylite foot crabs in my tank anyway due to agressive nature. other than that everything else sounds fine. Link to comment
pulpsmack Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 - 2 small fish are acceptable, the false clown is good the sixline is not (in general) - 1 smail/gallon, 1 hermit/ 2 gallons is a good rule of thumb. more hermits can be done but if underfed will consume each other & snails. - Beware of the emerald (some are good some aren't) and you should skip the sally altogether. - 2 pounds per gallon is perfectly acceptable. the suggestion is 1-2 pounds/gallon. I favor 1.5 - 2 pounds myself. Link to comment
Dave ESPI Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 as long as everything is happy and there is ample room and your tank parameters stay within the norm and you do a 10 - 20 % waterchange every wek or 2... you should be able to pak that tank to the gills.. OH ps What is the filters? Just Powerheads? LR and Live sand? its worked for me for years....... Link to comment
Guest AbSoluTc Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 DAVE- Come on now!!! You know very well your little "ICON" is not appropriate! Link to comment
Smokey Joe Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 I'd watch the sally lightfoot too. I've heard they can turn aggressive. My advice would be to drop it and get a smaller emerald. Link to comment
Nishant3789 Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 lol absalute, what was davesico9jn? chris took it off nishant Link to comment
kryptonite Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 I have about 28lbs of live rock in my 15g. Im very happy with that amt. You do have to remember though that a lot of the corals that you purchase are going to come with a pretty decent piece of live rock so don't go overboard on the live rock before you get all your corals. It's amazing how much live rock you will add that come with the corals you purchase. Two fish is fine (depending on the fish) I have 3 in mine. I also have a huge coral banded shrimp (love him) a small orange knobby star, 14 astrea snails and one unidentified one, 4 blue legged hermits, and about 6 or 7 diff corals so far. With a cpr backpack skimmer and everything is doing great. Link to comment
HuBu Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 i have no problem with that amount of LR. i have a 10 gal with 20 lbs of LR. gonna stock aorund 40 lbs or more in my 29 gal. the hermits and snails are good but i wouldnt keep that many hermits tho, i just hate hermits for what they did to my snails. whats crazy was that was just at a LFS in miami and the guy told this lady whos getting into reefing that she can keep 12-20 fishes in a 30 gal tank. is that even possible? Link to comment
dawn Posted June 26, 2002 Share Posted June 26, 2002 hi :flower2: 15gal tank atualy for the basics 1 pound of live rock per 1 gal of tank is good enoff or .5 per if you can afford that much with rest made up with base rock if you can aford more than that it depends on the size of the rock you do need some room for the fish to swim and other critters so you can see them^__^ as for substrata aka sand that is a personal choice more sand less rm for your critters^__^ my choices is no more than 2 inches of sand i use a mix of fine and med sand with little crushed shells on top i just like the way crushed shells and coral looks on the top of the sand my first tank( a 15gal) had just crushed coral and shells as sub once its set up rock with lots of little caves is best gives critters some place to feel safe untill they feel comfortable what you put in for critters is quite personal you do need cleaning crew snails to eat the alges(for 15gal i would put in 3 or 4) some hermet crabs that stay small to eat any left over food(most crabs can be canabilistic) i have some red leged hermet crabs i find do not have that caritistic their bodys are bright red but their eye stocks are yellow 4 or 5 is good in 15gal a sand sifter is a good fish to have it sturs the sand up a small gobie type is good i also recomend a cleaner wrass the small on that has drk blue and sea blue strips diagnal on its body (they will clean paricites off your fish) as to fish and corals ect... that is a personal choice ^_^ it depends what kind of tank you want ie. fish and critters that interact a pair of occis or perks(male and femal) or a seba type and condy anemone(sebas types will take very well with almost any anemone once their settled in ^__^ a couple of peppermint shrimps(they can help controul un wanted asp)and some times they breed *O* some babys can survive if your filture dosnt suck them up(keep covers on all you intake saves fish and other things from being sucked in and killed) if you want a crab get a anemone crab or porsiland their small and dont really need a anemone but its nice for them(they tend to hide alot if you dont have one they will acept any anemone) the anemone with my allaird is a seba, the one with the crab is condy^__^ the fish in front of allaird(clown seba type) is a scooter blenny named bennie(femal she dances for me like im her mate ahhh sooo cute) any how i like that type of tank ^__^ in that tank my 15 gal i have pair of occis clowns 1 alliard clown 1 cleaner wrass 1 scooter blenny 1 cleaner shrimp 4 hermet crabs 1 porciland crab 1 manderin 2 condys(anemones) 1 seba (anemone) 2 lrg feather dusters 1 flower pot coral some reg mushrooms about 3 or 5 pounds of live rock about the rest is base rock(live rock here is 13 dollars a pound ouch 8( ) hope that give you and idea Link to comment
Chromis Posted June 28, 2002 Author Share Posted June 28, 2002 Quote: from Toyfreek on 2:41 am on June 27, 2002[br]WOW..... agreed Link to comment
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