My 54 gallon aquarium!!!!

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Have fun! Should pick up a coral frag while you're there :p

 

[mdsiman]

Hahah it's a possibility. I don't want to add to much at once. Since I just added. 2 fish n 2 corals the other day. Got any suggestions on what I should look at if I decide to grab something? Gotta be a beginner coral tho

 

[Marinne13]

some zoas, mushroom rock, duncan...anything LPS I would go for

adding coral won't hurt anything

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Corals don't add to your bioload just so you know. See if they have any Zoa frags/colonies, white/green star polyps. I know they have mushroom packs there, and blastos. <-- The blasto requires some type of filter feeder food though. You can always ask them for help, just let em know that you're looking for beginner corals (DON'T TAKE A Goinopora though. I have one and it looked great for the first couple of weeks, but has slowly started to look worse. After much research and talking to a few LFS, they usually do well for 6-9 months before crashing out). They are usually pretty good about helping, maybe a favia frag? Also, I recommend checking out Absolutely Fish in Clifton for coral frags as well, tons of 15$ frags, 20s, 30s, and 40 will get you some nice sized colonies.

Edit: DON"T BUY FISH FROM ABSOLUTELY FISH. They run their tanks at 1.016 to treat for hyposalinity and I still brought home a fish with Ich. Their prices on fish are absolutely fucking horrible. For just a regular ocellaris clown, they want like 40$. But coral frags and small/med colonies their prices are good. Their salinity in coral tanks is usually 1.022 (I made them test it right in front of me when I brought home the duncan and bubble coral I have).

 

[mdsiman]

Ended up gettin a marine depot refractometer, candy cane frag and 2 purple myshrrooms.

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Nice pickups! Pics please! :)

 

[mdsiman]

I will after acclimatin them. Just used my refractometer. My hydrometer was spot on lol. Both measure at 1.025

 

[mdsiman]

I took my one coral off the plug and snapped off a little bit of the stem of it. You guys think it'll be fine?

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Is it pretty far from the head? If it is, should be okay.

 

[mdsiman]

Yea it was right at the base of it

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

No worries then, that's how they get fragged anyway lol

 

[mdsiman]

Cool thanks. It's my first time dealing with corals.

 

[Marinne13]

No worries, it will be fine

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

I'm still pretty new at this too :p, but, I watched quite a few vids on youtube of people fragging different corals. And my local guy in Dover has been teaching me different methods. By the way, are you interested in small 1" Tomato clown? (Not sure if you have any room for him or not). He's being segregated in a 10g until he grows so the eel won't eat him.. and I figured if you wanted him, he's yours (for free :))

 

[mdsiman]

Thanks for the offer man I appreciate it. But I don't think I am going to add anymore fish for a month or 2. I'm just going to mess around with corals.

 

[mdsiman]

 

[mdsiman]

 

[mdsiman]

Hmmm dont no why my pictures aren't working now

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

I can see them lol :p. What did the refracto and the coral run you?

 

[mdsiman]

100 flat. The refractometer was pretty expensive there. I think 70 for refracto n 30 for the candy cane and mushrooms