Over kill?

[jay2k2]

my cousin has a reef tank 45 gallons 36x12x18 i think!

well anyways his tank contains 30 lbs live rock. 6 green chromis, 2 siscor tail gobys, 1 firefish goby, 1 red scooter blenny, a yellow tang about 3inches and a hippo tang about 3.5 inches. he has about 16-17 corals and an anenome all under a 2x30 watt NO lighting! i have no clue how he does it the aneome has grown double size! and he never does water changes , by the way the aneome is long tenticle. and he just recently bought a surgeon fish a unknown speices. anyways i just thought i'd let you know! he also said he could add another 5 small fish to his tank!? what are your thoughts?

[Korbin]

What types of corals does he have?

[jay2k2]

he has polyps shrooms, colts all soft stuff nothing like a forg spawn or open brain

[Christopher Marks]

Well, that's not going to be typical for many other people.  It's hard to say how or why it's working for him - then again, it might not for very long.

[Kapelakin]

My thoughts are he's sitting on a ticking time bomb.

 

 

Tick, tick, tick...

[tinyreef]

maybe he's using icecap ballasts.  they pump up NO's as well as HO and VHO's.  

 

also the mushrooms don't need that much anyway, the anenome can switch to a more carnivorous metabolism versus a bias to photosynthesis.  does he have the soft corals up high? that may be enough, may be.

 

if it works more power to him.

[JIM27]

He has a yellow tang, hippo tang, and another surgeonfish. He'll need a bigger tank.

[jay2k2]

yeah the tank has been running for about 1.4 years and the corals some are high but most of them are low like in the sand. it may be a time bomb but we will see!