Clean Up Crew

Nope. Just get them up too temp. John should've given you instructions on acclimation.

 

hey when you contacted john did you tell him what fish and stuff you wanted? what if your not sure what you want to keep yet

 

Contact John using the sponsor forum @ reef cleaners. Start a thread and ask him what your intentions are.

 

My first question is how much research have you done on these particular fish/ corals? The most important thing is this hobby is to do research. You are doing well so far (after the initial problems) and for the best chance of success you need to research everything.

If you want to buy a fish, you need to know everything about it- care level, food requirements, tank needs, compatibility, etc. Only after you have a thorough understanding of this, should you make a decision on whether to buy the fish or not.

There are a lot of great and very colorful fish in the list you made, but what I will tell you is that there are several problems with the list you compiled. I can tell you what it is if you can't find it, but do a quick google search into the care of each of these inhabitants and I'm sure you can tell me what the problem is.

After that we can work to fix it! If there are two things to remember, they are:

1. Research, research, research... then once you are tired of researching, do it some more.
2. Nothing good in reef keeping happens fast

 

John can help with that, but at the same time, a fish that eats invertebrates is going to eat snails, crabs, whatever your CUC consists of. As a result, it is probably more of a decision of should you get a CUC or not.

Do you have any idea what you want to keep?

 

For corals, looks like hammer and torch need to be separated and kept singly as they can reach up and sting other corals.

For fish the bicolor angels seem to be a no go, eating corals and inverts. Exquisite fairy wrasse needs a top so that cant happen.

Am i missing anything?

 

Nice work!

The only other thing you want to keep in mind is that the Blue Leopard Wrasse is considered to require expert care, so you will want to have some experience before considering adding it to your tank.

Also, what type of lighting do you have on your tank? LPS (hammers, candy cane, torch) need some pretty good lighting- t5's or MH

So before making any recommendations, what were the reasons you wanted the bi-color angel/ exquisite fairy wrasse? Was it colors? Expected personalities/ behaviors? Something else?

Also, the fairy wrasse isn't necessarily out. You could always get a piece of eggcrate from Lowes/ Home Depot and cut it to fit the top of your tank. Easy fix to keep fish in the tank and still allows gas exchange.

 

Also do snails eat the algae of my rock?

 

Yes, but only if it isn't overgrown (i.e.- strands of green hair algae)

 

For lighting I have 2 AI LED Sol lights mounted from my ceiling at 10" above water.

The reason I like those fish is because of color mostly. Very vibrant and cool looking!!