Hello everyone!
It's my first post on the forum, although I have been reading it avidly for the last 4 months, while planning my first reef tank; I come from the freshwater hobby, where I did mostly planted with community fishes, but I've always wanted to go salt, and taking advantage of moving countries I decided to convert my Juwel Lido 120 (30g).
The tank is now up and running for 1 month and a half, going through heavy diatoms but doing great. I cycled with the bacteria and ammonia method, fishless, and started stocking slowly after that.
Currently I have the following: 2 A. Ocellaris, 3 Chromis Viridis, 1 Salarias Fasciatus, 3 mexican turbo, 4 nassarius, 4 clibanarius digueti. I also do have some softies and LPS, showing great coloration, polip extension, and some growth already. I dosed pods and zooplankton to seed my dry rock scape, purchased from an Italian company, since we don't have access to Algae barn around here, but it cointained a great variety of species, and I've been feeding it Phyto since then to stimulate reproduction.
I feed quite heavily because I've been reading that it's what the Chromis need, not big quantities but 5+ times a day, an I have seen no aggression within the fish, a lot of activity and personality.
I test my values daily at the moment, since I've been trying to figure out the correct dosing of alk and ca, and I'm making sure they stay stable.
Now to my question, regarding the remaining stocking I have in mind: I really would like to have a Gramma, but I also would love to have a wrasse of some kind. The ideal, and my favorite, would be the Pink Streaked wrasse.
Do you guys think that would work, or am I going to have too much? It's going to be really though to source the pink streaked here in Italy, it's not a common fish sadly, LFS says that a SLW would be fine, but I've been reading horror stories about that; what do you think?
I'll attach graphs of my readings, and some pics of my setup. Thanks a lot for your help in advance!
It's my first post on the forum, although I have been reading it avidly for the last 4 months, while planning my first reef tank; I come from the freshwater hobby, where I did mostly planted with community fishes, but I've always wanted to go salt, and taking advantage of moving countries I decided to convert my Juwel Lido 120 (30g).
The tank is now up and running for 1 month and a half, going through heavy diatoms but doing great. I cycled with the bacteria and ammonia method, fishless, and started stocking slowly after that.
Currently I have the following: 2 A. Ocellaris, 3 Chromis Viridis, 1 Salarias Fasciatus, 3 mexican turbo, 4 nassarius, 4 clibanarius digueti. I also do have some softies and LPS, showing great coloration, polip extension, and some growth already. I dosed pods and zooplankton to seed my dry rock scape, purchased from an Italian company, since we don't have access to Algae barn around here, but it cointained a great variety of species, and I've been feeding it Phyto since then to stimulate reproduction.
I feed quite heavily because I've been reading that it's what the Chromis need, not big quantities but 5+ times a day, an I have seen no aggression within the fish, a lot of activity and personality.
I test my values daily at the moment, since I've been trying to figure out the correct dosing of alk and ca, and I'm making sure they stay stable.
Now to my question, regarding the remaining stocking I have in mind: I really would like to have a Gramma, but I also would love to have a wrasse of some kind. The ideal, and my favorite, would be the Pink Streaked wrasse.
Do you guys think that would work, or am I going to have too much? It's going to be really though to source the pink streaked here in Italy, it's not a common fish sadly, LFS says that a SLW would be fine, but I've been reading horror stories about that; what do you think?
I'll attach graphs of my readings, and some pics of my setup. Thanks a lot for your help in advance!