12 gallon tank with a 6 gallon fuge

[blue fishies]

im going to set up a 12 gallon aquarium with a 6 gallon refugium, and i wanted to add the following things,commenets and seggestions would be nice

 

2 clownfish, a few mushrooms,an anemone shroom, a rhodactis, a few polyp colonies, a sarcophytom glaucum, a few xenia, a pom-pom, a tonga,a red brain,a hammar, a few sponges, 2 cleaner shrimp,1 blood/fire shrimp, a coral banded shrimp, a few turbo snails,a few blue-legged hermits,a bubble anemone, a tridanid clams, a pillow star,a pincushin urchin

[Rocket_155]

that sounds like a nice setup, but i think your bioload might be a bit to much for that size tank.

Also i would be carefull with the CBS (coral banded shrimp), and the others together as they might fight over teratory and food.

 

HTH

[Dave ESPI]

Originally posted by blue fishies

im going to set up a 12 gallon aquarium with a 6 gallon refugium,  

 

2 clownfish, a few mushrooms,an anemone shroom, a rhodactis, a few polyp colonies, a sarcophytom glaucum, a few xenia, a pom-pom, a tonga,a red brain,a hammar, a few sponges, 2 cleaner shrimp,1 blood/fire shrimp, a coral banded shrimp, a few turbo snails,a few blue-legged hermits,a bubble anemone, a tridanid clams, a pillow star,a pincushin urchin

 

A lot of potential issues. it looks like you made a list of stuff you liked and decided to put the in one tank. :

First what is your experience level?

Second, what ELSE is with the set up?

you made no mention of anything else.

 

As a comment... from what has been presented here, it won't work.

 

The clam will be messed with and kiled by the cleaners, the CBS will kill the blood, the rhodactus gets upwards of 12 inches across once fully expanded, the Hammer euphylia has a huge expansion and sweeper tenticles, the bubble anemone will not stay in one place, and should not be kept with mushrooms or xenia because of cross toxins in the water and the urchin will stabb it, as well as the pillow star possibly eating stuff on you.

 

FWIW, do some more lurking here, and read up on species inter-relationships.

 

Oh and WTF is "a tonga"?

[blue fishies]

looks like ill have to buy more then one tank X) :*(

[reiple]

too much bioload and very incompatible. read more at

 

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/index.htm

 

and since you are (with the 6 gallon sump) trying to setup something closer to normal reefs, put a DSB or plenum and LR chamber in the sump (put two chambers). a small skimmer would also be desirable though not necessary.

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

 

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Experienced? Try keeping Elegance corals and Crocea tridacnid clams alive and growing in a nano. Otherwise clam up.