!OPINION! on coral beauty in 60l?

BigTomo003 · Apr 15, 2020

Webslinger said:
I think he already has the fish?

Yes, I the tank should have been set up by now its on hold due to quarantine

Zionas · Apr 15, 2020

Unrelated, but my tank will be a 4 foot tank that’s 48”x24”x22” (120cm by 60cm by 55cm). Will two Marine Bettas, two clowns (Ocellaris), three PJ Cardinals, three Chrysiptera (ex: Azure damsels) damsels, 2 Flame Hawks, 1-2 Matted Filefish and a dwarf angel or butterfly be too much of a bioload? Would that stress out the fish?

If I could pair the Marine Bettas and not include a fish from my ideal stocking list, I’d ax the dwarf angel or the butterfly.

92Miata · Apr 15, 2020

AC1211 said:
Listen the answer is no you cannot do that even temporarily especially with the risk of the 5ft tank being delayed at all. I have only seen a coral beauty in a 29 gallon once which is bigger than your tank and it was dime sized and in a month tripled in size and beat up its tankmates. So that wad a 29g the answer for you is no.

I think there's a lot of confusion in this thread.

The tank is a 60cm cube. This is 24" x 24" x 24" - or 60 gallons.

IMO, a Coral Beauty will be fine in a 60 cube (as long as there are no conspecifics). My Potters was fine in a 30" tank.

AcroNem · Apr 15, 2020

Zionas said:
Unrelated, but my tank will be a 4 foot tank that’s 48”x24”x22” (120cm by 60cm by 55cm). Will two Marine Bettas, two clowns (Ocellaris), three PJ Cardinals, three Chrysiptera (ex: Azure damsels) damsels, 2 Flame Hawks, 1-2 Matted Filefish and a dwarf angel or butterfly be too much of a bioload? Would that stress out the fish?

I will suggest to make a thread for this post so we don't hijack this thread. But my short answer will be yes that's probably going to be a stressful situation.

AcroNem · Apr 15, 2020

92Miata said:
I think there's a lot of confusion in this thread.

The tank is a 60cm cube. This is 24" x 24" x 24" - or 60 gallons.

IMO, a Coral Beauty will be fine in a 60 cube (as long as there are no conspecifics). My Potters was fine in a 30" tank.

The OP states 60L, which is almost 16gallons
But a 24" cube holds almost 60gallons.
@BigTomo003 which one of these is accurate?

BigTomo003 · Apr 15, 2020

Zionas said:
Unrelated, but my tank will be a 4 foot tank that’s 48”x24”x22” (120cm by 60cm by 55cm). Will two Marine Bettas, two clowns (Ocellaris), three PJ Cardinals, three Chrysiptera (ex: Azure damsels) damsels, 2 Flame Hawks, 1-2 Matted Filefish and a dwarf angel or butterfly be too much of a bioload? Would that stress out the fish?

If I could pair the Marine Bettas and not include a fish from my ideal stocking list, I’d ax the dwarf angel or the butterfly.

I'm a big believer as long as u keep up with weekly waterchanges yo can have as many fish as u like (within reason ofc) like I do weekly water changes on my tank I have 2 occy clowns a dwarf CB ovs lol a blood red fire shrimp 3 dwarf red hermits 2 nassarus snails a ton of copepods and a tiny brittle starfish and I just added a pom pom crab so plenty of cuc to clean up the waste, I have a canister filter that's rated for a tank 5x bigger than mine and plenty of surface agitation as I said the fish do fine when the angel gets moved I want a goby and shrimp pair. I think as long as you have a far superior cuc to the fish then ur perfect and keep up the weekly water changes and mind to test.

92Miata · Apr 15, 2020

AcroNem said:
The OP states 60L, which is almost 16gallons
But a 24" cube holds almost 60gallons.
@BigTomo003 which one of these is accurate?

Yeah - definitely confusing. I think the 60l is supposed to mean '60 cm long'. He's got dimensions further down in the original post. I think its less likely he typoed the dimensions than that the title is misleading.

BigTomo003 · Apr 15, 2020

92Miata said:
I think there's a lot of confusion in this thread.

The tank is a 60cm cube. This is 24" x 24" x 24" - or 60 gallons.

IMO, a Coral Beauty will be fine in a 60 cube (as long as there are no conspecifics). My Potters was fine in a 30" tank.

Thanks! At least someone agrees as I have said many times he's healthy and gets along with the clowns.

BigTomo003 · Apr 15, 2020

AcroNem said:
The OP states 60L, which is almost 16gallons
But a 24" cube holds almost 60gallons.
@BigTomo003 which one of these is accurate?

My bad, yes its 24" each side. Or just over a foot and a half

Also off topic but are EU measurements not different to american ones?

BigTomo003 · Apr 15, 2020

92Miata said:
Yeah - definitely confusing. I think the 60l is supposed to mean '60 cm long'. He's got dimensions further down in the original post. I think its less likely he typoed the dimensions than that the title is misleading.

I'm dyslexic its all good tho I'm sure its 60gallons sorry for the confusion

Webslinger · Apr 15, 2020

Zionas said:
Unrelated, but my tank will be a 4 foot tank that’s 48”x24”x22” (120cm by 60cm by 55cm). Will two Marine Bettas, two clowns (Ocellaris), three PJ Cardinals, three Chrysiptera (ex: Azure damsels) damsels, 2 Flame Hawks, 1-2 Matted Filefish and a dwarf angel or butterfly be too much of a bioload? Would that stress out the fish?

If I could pair the Marine Bettas and not include a fish from my ideal stocking list, I’d ax the dwarf angel or the butterfly.

Depends on your filtering capacity.

AC1211 · Apr 15, 2020

BigTomo003 said:
I'm dyslexic its all good tho I'm sure its 60gallons sorry for the confusion

Oh that is why I said no it will be fine in a 60g

AcroNem · Apr 15, 2020

If 60gallons, I will revise and say that it will be alright. 60liters, no way.

Salty Lemon · Apr 15, 2020

Nope.

BigTomo003 · Apr 15, 2020

AcroNem said:
If 60gallons, I will revise and say that it will be alright. 60liters, no way.

Yes 60gal sorry for teh confusion

I was just wondering if people prefare cubes or rectangles

Salty Lemon · Apr 15, 2020

BigTomo003 said:
Yes 60gal sorry for teh confusion I was just wondering if people prefare cubes or rectangles

No problem with 60 gallons. I love coral beauties. I had them in my early hobby tanks and I had them in my big tanks. They are a beautiful fish. Keep in mind that they can be territorial. It might be one of the last fish you put in your tank so it doesn't pick on your other fish.
EDIT: I seemed to have missed that you already purchased it.

BigTomo003 · Apr 15, 2020

Salty Lemon said:
No problem with 60 gallons. I love coral beauties. I had them in my early hobby tanks and I had them in my big tanks. They are a beautiful fish. Keep in mind that they can be territorial. It might be one of the last fish you put in your tank so it doesn't pick on your other fish.
EDIT: I seemed to have missed that you already purchased it.

Ye she was my last fish in tho i m going to put her in a larger tank,, do u know any good looking goby and shrimp pair? And do I need a deep sand bed as I only have about half an inch for the looks