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40 gal breeder with a frogfish and macroalgae


Micco28

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I am looking to start up a tank with a sargassum frogish (Histrio histrio) and I was thinking about making it a macro algae planted tank too.The macro algae will let the H. histrio hide, but I want to make sure that the one I've picked out will work. So I was thinking about:

Tank-
40 gal breeder

Animals-
Sargassum Frogfish
Harlequin Serpent Star

Macros-
Blue ochtodes
Maiden's hair
Blue Scroll
Dragon's Breath
Baggy seaweed

Equipment-
Maxijet 900

HOB filter, any suggestions?
Tank cover (sargassum frogfish are known jumpers)
I was thinking about using a Eheim 200w Jager heater, any thoughts?
Finnex FugeRay Planted+ LEDs
*I know frogfish are heavy bioloaders, but I wasn't planning on using a skimmer because of the macros.

I am planning on using LR and dry rock and 50/50 fine live sand/fine dry sand.

I plan on starting with live foods and then switching to frozen (and I'll be careful to not over feed)

Please let me know if I missed anything or if you have any suggestions :D

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Very interesting set up, I use a finnex planted plus on my fw planted anf love it,for what it cost and does, I might recomend two 36 inch fixtures for your tank to cover the spread back to front, also assuming you will have a dense forest of macro to grow. For a hob filter aquaclears are popular I use one oversized on a 10 gallon fairly quite and not intrusive into the display, but if your going that approach why not pick up a ehiem 2217 classic canister filter. Ehiems are eell known to do what there suppose too, 200 watts is plenty, I'm kinda looking at this tank like a planted tank, so with excess food and nutirents your plants will just suck it up and really help keep the display nice so you eont need to worry about alittle phosphate and nitrate, hell u might need to dose it hahaha, don't qoute me on that one lol, anyways good luck!

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Very interesting set up, I use a finnex planted plus on my fw planted anf love it,for what it cost and does, I might recomend two 36 inch fixtures for your tank to cover the spread back to front, also assuming you will have a dense forest of macro to grow. For a hob filter aquaclears are popular I use one oversized on a 10 gallon fairly quite and not intrusive into the display, but if your going that approach why not pick up a ehiem 2217 classic canister filter. Ehiems are eell known to do what there suppose too, 200 watts is plenty, I'm kinda looking at this tank like a planted tank, so with excess food and nutirents your plants will just suck it up and really help keep the display nice so you eont need to worry about alittle phosphate and nitrate, hell u might need to dose it hahaha, don't qoute me on that one lol, anyways good luck!

Thanks for the advice! I actually did get two of the planted+. My basic idea was actual a SW planted tank.

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