fish ratio

there are lots of good fish for that sized tank! A tang was a bad sell by the pet store but don't let the grumpies get you down, you did the right thing. I love the following in a smaller tank: Firefish, purple firefish, Bangai cardinal fish, orchid dottyback, Royal Gramma, a small wrasse, most any gobbie/Blenny (I like the midas and bi-color myself) and maybe a couple chromis. Good luck!

 

I've always liked gobies. There are a bunch that would do great in your tank. Yellow watchmen goby is a favorite of everyone. They have personality too, here's my favorite pic of one.

 

what type of lighting are you running and how old is the tank? i would also be worried about the well being of your lta in a recently overstocked tank. also it wouldnt hurt to ditch the canister filter for a fuge.

 

I do have the tpoper lighting because of my LTA and after I brought the tang back to the reef store I did a 10% water change. My LTA is doing just fine. he is eating and pooping and hasn't move from his spot, he is fully out everyday and seems happy. Thanks for your concern. I have a pair of perc's and I'm going to try to breed them.So for now nothing more is gonig in the tank

 

without getting into the protien skimmer thing, I've been airating the water with a power head with a large net with filter media in it to capture the protien' It' the best I can do for now. Any other ideas?
I only have two perc's and a LTA. 25 gallons

 

I added a new addition to my tank, a real cool peice of live rock, but when I woke up this morning my LTA had taken over. her 8in tentacles cascade down the side and I con no longer see the rock----so much for my purple rock.. Can these guys smell when there is somthing new in the tank for she has not move from her other place for 4months

 

Maybe it had been wanting that spot and now it had the chance to take it. Just a thought

 

yeah i would take looking at a beautiful anemone over a piece of rock any day of the week.

 

got a new piece of live rock and within minutes my enem was on the move. now she sits on the underside of the arched rock. what can I do to get her upwards. before this piece of rock she never moved for 4 months.

 

Anemones will go where they want.

The only intervention that carries little risk of getting them to move is increasing the flow in the anemone's direction.