Coral question

[djvicariboston]

Hi I have 75 gallon bow front tank with 30 gallon sump. Parameters are perfect had checked yesterday I could post them but u all know what good numbers are. I’m posting a couple pics first one is flow of where my power heads are and return from sump. Directions and strength. Second one is of the live rock set up on a bare bottom tank and where I placed corals but would be open to sugggestions as of corals that would do better higher lower to light and further or closer to flow. I’ll mention my sump also has a skimmer, live rock, chaeto, and 6 Inch sand bed. Tanks been running about 9 months now and super stable!! Thanks in advance. Oh if anyone plans on sending anything rude or condescending just done respond at all please. I’m really just trying to learn! Thanks!
here are pics!

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https://i.ibb.co/0Zvq917/D04-F7988-F1-A3-49-FA-9-FED-6994-C1-F55188.jpg

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[Jekyl]

Seems like you have everything in order just hesitant to get your feet wet. Coral selection is the best part of all this. Start looking at some online and at your LFS. Decide which you really want and do your homework. Along the way you will change speeds and direction of your flow a bunch of times. Don't fret on it too much. Just start buying! If concerned with area don't glue them down right away. The corals will let you know.

 

[djvicariboston]

Thank you so much for the advice! Seems to be the answer I’ve gotten lately around the local stores too. I’m not gonna glue yet I will wait and see who wants to go where.. The thing I need to do research on is happy and unhappy coral of the purchases I’ve made and will make!

 

[Jekyl]

Wait on getting an anemone also. See how you do with some others first. They were tricky for me at first.

 

[djvicariboston]

Hi, thanks for advice I’m not sure if you saw the pics I posted . But I already have about 7 pieces of coral in there and 5 anemones

 

[anthonygf]

Very nice setup. I think you will do well. I was in the same boat as you 6 years ago and learned by trial and error. I wish I knew of this site to learn and ask questions back then, our friends here are mostly helpful and friendly. Nothing wrong with asking questions even if you think you know the answer.

 

[djvicariboston]

Thanks! Appreciate that! The last 6 months has been nothing but that researching trials and errors. LOL it wasn’t until about a month ago everything became stable consistently which is when I started adding the anemones and coral little by little. Brought home a nice piece of rock with nice GSP on it two days ago reached in to move it around and saw this worm I’ll post a pic. Think I should remove it??

 

[anthonygf]

Oh and if you decide to get sticks, sps corals don't get CRABS! I had several that would climb up onto my sps and break off branches. I got rid of them all. Now I only have frags after upgrading to 75.

 

[djvicariboston]

so is that worm bad I posted??

 

[anthonygf]

Thanks! Appreciate that! The last 6 months has been nothing but that researching trials and errors. LOL it wasn’t until about a month ago everything became stable consistently which is when I started adding the anemones and coral little by little. Brought home a nice piece of rock with nice GSP on it two days ago reached in to move it around and saw this worm I’ll post a pic. Think I should remove it??

I would. I tried nems also but just hurt some of my corals. I had one that moved and decided to reside next to a large kenya tree that my clowns love and now is shriveled to half it's size. No more nems for me.

 

[djvicariboston]

I would. I tried nems also but just hurt some of my corals. I had one that moved and decided to reside next to a large kenya tree that my clowns love and now is shriveled to half it's size. No more nems for me.

I’m sorry I was asking if I should remove this worm hitchhiker arrived in my tank two days ago not the anemones

 

[anthonygf]

so is that worm bad I posted??

I think so, looks like a fireworm. Not sure, I never had one. Looks large in the photo. I had small bristle worms about 1/4 inch which are ok.

 

[djvicariboston]

Yeah it’s huge and I think I touched it so gross hahah didn’t get bit or bristles stuck in me or anything butMan this thing is ugly onto my worm trapping adventures, never a dull moment with this tank LOL

 

[anthonygf]

I’m sorry I was asking if I should remove this worm hitchhiker arrived in my tank two days ago not the anemones

Nothong wrong with keeping nems in your tank, if it works for you. In my situation tank setup for 5-6 years and then introduce a nem was like a parasite in my system.

 

[anthonygf]

Yeah it’s huge and I think I touched it so gross hahah didn’t get bit or bristles stuck in me or anything butMan this thing is ugly onto my worm trapping adventures, never a dull moment with this tank LOL

That's the fun part of this hobby, your adventure is just beginning. I had my 46 bowfront for like 5 years and everything going well. No worms or anything bad. Started to get a little aiptasia last year and was under control with filefish and other methods. Then just a few months ago I upgraded to a 75 gallon, new rinsed sand, mostly new salt water and just transferred everything to the 75 last December. Just after that the aiptasia exploded and was everywhere, even between zoa polyps. I purchased 15 peppermint and they helped but only in the areas they lived. Anyway I got tired of it and removed all my rock and fragged all my coral to remove them, put the cleaned frags back in my tank. Cleaned the rocks over a week in vinegar and then fresh water, let dry and then boiled the rocks before putting back in my tank. I boiled them just to warm them up and final cleansing. Now I am battling a little diatoms and is getting better.

 

[anthonygf]

How is the weather there in Boston? I used to love visiting your city, I was born in Providence and raised in Warwick.

 

[djvicariboston]

That's the fun part of this hobby, your adventure is just beginning. I had my 46 bowfront for like 5 years and everything going well. No worms or anything bad. Started to get a little aiptasia last year and was under control with filefish and other methods. Then just a few months ago I upgraded to a 75 gallon, new rinsed sand, mostly new salt water and just transferred everything to the 75 last December. Just after that the aiptasia exploded and was everywhere, even between zoa polyps. I purchased 15 peppermint and they helped but only in the areas they lived. Anyway I got tired of it and removed all my rock and fragged all my coral to remove them, put the cleaned frags back in my tank. Cleaned the rocks over a week in vinegar and then fresh water, let dry and then boiled the rocks before putting back in my tank. I boiled them just to warm them up and final cleansing. Now I am battling a little diatoms and is getting better.

That’s incredible. A lot of work for a hobby it’s good to know I’m not alone at least and not crazy or maybe we all are haha. The mouthfuls of salt water I’ve had to swallow syphoning when I needed to do something quickly and didn’t have even time to go to basement for the pump. Lol the floor covered in water. The hours upon hours and hours moving rocks around aqua scaping fingers red and sore from it. Friends always asking what I’m up to. I’m like what u think I’m up to. They like your moving the rocks around aren’t you. YUP

 

[djvicariboston]

How is the weather there in Boston? I used to love visiting your city, I was born in Providence and raised in Warwick.

Weather is terrible haha I was actually thinking about selling the house and maybe moving somewhere warmer. I’m a nurse so relocation won’t be a problem haha Providence huh some clubs down there I dj’d at once or twice long ago.

 

[Gtinnel]

so is that worm bad I posted??

It's looks like it very likely could be a fireworm, so I would definitely remove it. I'm sure you probably already know this but supposedly the bristles on it are painful if you get stuck with them, so I'd do my best not to touch it.

 

[saturn13]

Tank looks great, too bad with this covid stuff, other wise you'd be able to goto the Frag Farmers Market in Storrs, CT that happens annually and could get all kinds of things.
Love Boston,couldn't agree more with the weather, I'm in central CT and about to go either carolinas or FL.