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Old September 2nd 07, 10:17 AM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.misc
Marksfish
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Default I have fish...now what else???

"Mike D" wrote in message
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get a bigger tank, especially if you want more marine animals in there. In
my opinion, no tank should be less than sixty or seventy gallons. Anything
less is basically the equivalent of a jail cell. Remember the size of
these animals' natural habitat. Mike.
"Phil" wrote in message
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I've recently set up my first sal****er tank. It's a 37 gallon with
about 15 pounds of live rock. Right now I have four small fish in it.
They are a Domino Damsel, a Valentini puffer, a Neon blue Spotted
puffer, and a Scribbled boxfish. All the fish are doing fine and get
along. I wanted to know what other kind of "animals" I could put in
the tank. Things like shrimp, crabs, urchins, anenomes, feather
dusters, starfish, etc... I understand that the puffers eat certain
crustations...Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,


Missed this thread starting, so cannot add to OP.

You have puffers. The puffers will eat any shrimps, crabs, snails and
feather dusters you may wish to put in and as such are not reef safe. If you
put these in, you are just providing a luxuriously expensive diet. The tank
is also too small for the fish you have really as they will grow to quite a
large size, you really need to be looking at a five footer, better still six
Puffers are also messy feeders, so you need to make sure that you have
filtration that will cope with the waster they produce, the liverock isn't
enough IMO.

Mark