Steve Goldsmith's 55 gallon tank build

Thanks for your opinion. I'll definitely give it a try. And might end up switching to the Percs later, if things don't go well. The other livestock I have planned are a blue spotted puffer, flame angel, and a jawfish, blenny, or goby.

 

A small update: both Clarkiis died of Brooklynella. on the bright side, the same thing happened to the other Clarkiis from the same tank, so I got a full refund in store credit. also got a large serpent star (not my idea, it was my hubby. : ) that I think is too large for the 55... might have to return. I'm thinking about using the credit from both clowns to ge an Onyx Perc. and buy another one with cash. (onyx: $30 clarkii: $15) and I should be ordering a basket of base rock from ReefCleaners soon enough.

 

Sounds pretty good. Screw me for having a 10 gallon; I want a percula!

 

Sorry on the loss, glad you got credit, best of luck with whatever you decide to do.

 

I used to have a percale in an 8 gal biocube... lol. at my LFS they have these really small clowns, I think orcellaris maybe, that were about a cm long. as long as you have good filtration and you're clown clames an object, one would be fine IMO. when I had mine, he claimed the outtake. never left it to see the rest of the tank.

 

tanks for the kind words. now that I read around, I'm sort of happy to have them out of the tank due to aggressiveness. although I wish that they hadn't been taken out in the condition that they were in....

 

Well IMO 8 or 10 gallons is still pretty small... I'll think about it more. Also, sorry about the losses

 

Yeah I agree there

 

thanks for the kind words, and good luck.

 

Just upgraded from penguin 350 to an aquaclear 110. Very happy so far.