My salt water wish list

[polleni-puffer]

20 gallon wish-list

Fish

3 black cardinalfish-pretty and easy to care for

2 banner cardinalfish-pretty and peaceful

orange banded goby-super nice but hard to find

Inverts

1 pistol shrimp

? scarlet reef hermet crab

possibly more

Corals

Hawkin's Blue Echinata-Easy to keep and pretty

Australian Big Polyp Blastomussa -Easy and pretty

Candy Cane Coral-Super pretty and easy to care for

Green Bubble Coral-its so bubbly and pretty

Improvement equipment

1 20 gallon Aqua C Nano Remora

1 hospital tank+reef safe meds

along ith a filter and heater and live-rock

[Parachromis1]

Where do you get your ideas from? That setup is a little advanced for a newb to SW if you ask me, and nano tank sydrome is bound to kick in.

[polleni-puffer]

I know ,its terrible and as we say on MFK "it makes me wanna go to the dark side and do some salt"

I know its a little advanced ,but nothing more then the best for mah fishies

[soliver]

I read somewhere that if you have crabs. Then its a lot harder to keep coral. They keep disturbing it.

Make sure you go through the steps of setting up a tank. Don't add it all in at once. Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.

So you decided salt water instead of aro's? Or are you doing both?

[fatpuffer]

Not all crabs will disturb corals. Hermit crabs are great scavengers and emerald crab are good algae eaters (valonia and hair algae in my experience).

I think its the big crabs that tend to know down corals frags and such.

Js

[rED O]

For a beginner salt water keeper why not start with something more simple? If you would like read this artical from oscarfish.com, you might find it helpful.

http://www.oscarfish.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20889

[Parachromis1]

im not trying to bring you down, but shouldn't you worry about the fish you have right now. if the red mota is what I think it is, you don't have a tank close enough in size to keep it. and look at your goldfish, it needs more then a 10 gallon.

[soliver]

You should worry about properly taking care/housing the fish you currently have before you add more to the list.

[thegrandpoohbah]

Not to rain on your parade but 6 fish in a 20G!?!? I'd re-think that if I were you or you will have a lot of water quality issues.

[rayfong]

Not to mention most cardinalfish don't do well in groups unless your tank is big enough (100 gallons +).

[polleni-puffer]

*huf* i was hoping to spend my money on my salt water tank(ya ,i decided not to get the aro anytime soon ,unless a 200 gallon cycled tank randomly poofs out of no wheres im mah fish room) but i suppose that i could buy a biiger tank for my mota and goldie.