new2reefing
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Alright, so after googling the crap out of this and always seeing the same useless responses posted when people ask this question, I'm going to try to be detailed.
I have a 90 gallon tank with a 30 gallon sump with fuge section as well as a 20 gallon display refugium. I shut down the display fuge when I upgraded from a 55 sumpless. Looking to start it back up.
There is a secont pump in my sump that will feed to the display fuge, which sits higher then display tank and gravity feeds back to main display. The main purpose of this display fuge will be additional spot for pods, and for display worthy microalgae (dragons breath, red algae, brush, mangroves, currently these have been banished to the sump.
However I want to add a fish and possibly pistol/goby pair. Yes I know refugium =no fish... but fish that dont use pods as their main source of food would not be an issue, especially when a significant portion of my sump is to grow chaeto...which is a pod factory...
Now the Question- which cool fish???
Maybe one that isn't coral friendly, or just a neat fish. Or aggressive. Also, which of the possible cool fish would be ok with the swimming space, but require larger tanks due to the fact that their territorial or messy eaters...(for example marine beta needs little swimming space, but eats shrimp and small reef fish, but I dont think the tanks big enough for their adult size) Total volume would be 120ish gal.
Thanks all. Haven't been on here in a while but hoping to be more active.
I have a 90 gallon tank with a 30 gallon sump with fuge section as well as a 20 gallon display refugium. I shut down the display fuge when I upgraded from a 55 sumpless. Looking to start it back up.
There is a secont pump in my sump that will feed to the display fuge, which sits higher then display tank and gravity feeds back to main display. The main purpose of this display fuge will be additional spot for pods, and for display worthy microalgae (dragons breath, red algae, brush, mangroves, currently these have been banished to the sump.
However I want to add a fish and possibly pistol/goby pair. Yes I know refugium =no fish... but fish that dont use pods as their main source of food would not be an issue, especially when a significant portion of my sump is to grow chaeto...which is a pod factory...
Now the Question- which cool fish???
Maybe one that isn't coral friendly, or just a neat fish. Or aggressive. Also, which of the possible cool fish would be ok with the swimming space, but require larger tanks due to the fact that their territorial or messy eaters...(for example marine beta needs little swimming space, but eats shrimp and small reef fish, but I dont think the tanks big enough for their adult size) Total volume would be 120ish gal.
Thanks all. Haven't been on here in a while but hoping to be more active.
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