Region specific live stock selecting.

[Gareth elliott]

So i am on the return from battling a toxic dino in my tank. My corals are still very stressed. Since i dont know what will ultimately pull through presents a possible interesting change in direction if the answer is none.

All of my fish by chance including the pink streaked wrasse i plan on adding are from indonesia. And the idea i could now do a biotope reef instead of random selection of corals based on what was present at the time. I am not going to be as specific as particular island lol.

What are some corals i could add that will also be from indonesia? Looking more towards specific species of SPS. And helpful hints to wading through industry names of corals to determine where a coral was originally harvested from. Anyone have named sps that they know came from this corner of the globe?

 

[CC13]

So i am on the return from battling a toxic dino in my tank. My corals are still very stressed. Since i dont know what will ultimately pull through presents a possible interesting change in direction if the answer is none.

All of my fish by chance including the pink streaked wrasse i plan on adding are from indonesia. And the idea i could now do a biotope reef instead of random selection of corals based on what was present at the time. I am not going to be as specific as particular island lol.

What are some corals i could add that will also be from indonesia? Looking more towards specific species of SPS. And helpful hints to wading through industry names of corals to determine where a coral was originally harvested from. Anyone have named sps that they know came from this corner of the globe?

No idea what any of the SPS names are from Indonesia, but I'll tag along to this thread for curiosity sake.

 

[VR28man]

Most fish and corals can be found over a wide swath of the Pacific. More important than what country, or even what Island, is what part of the reef they’re from.

What fish and corals do you have?

 

[Gareth elliott]

Fish are Ocellaris clownfish(wide range that includes indonesia [emoji23]), lubbock’s wrasse.

Current corals.(none are doing spectacular at the moment all are closed, some bleached from the dino bloom)

Branching Frogspawn
Corky finger(this i know is from the Caribbean)

Green pavona
Pocillopora
Stylophora
Seriatopora

Ok now to things with names i cant google the location.

Garf bonsia

Some wwc names

Rainbow monti
Atomic orange monti
Aussie special (assuming Australia lol)
Blue lighting stag
Periwinkle acropora
Some wild acro(i dont think this one is making it)

 

[VR28man]

Here's a good overview of the different coral reef zones. Some corals will be most common in one zone, or even specific parts of one zone.


Looks like most of the corals are acroporas, montis, and pocilloporidae (pocillopora, stylophora, and seriatopora are all in the same biological family). They will probably like as much light and (random/variable) flow as you can give them in the aquarium.

Ocellaris are usually found in the lagoon zone in LTAs, etc., but those areas usually have a decent amount of flow. They also live in some fore reef slope corals, and IME they can like lots of flow. Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse lives in "Occurs in outer reefs over bottom of coral rubble or heads of small finely branched coral. Feeds on zooplankton. Usually occurs in moderately large groups in depths of about 20-25 m" (https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Cirrhilabrus-lubbocki), from a bit of a different area.

With that, I might recommend a 30ft or so reef slope area. PAR around 200-300 at the brightest points at around the top 1/3 point of the tank. A good amount of flow - nominally 100x or so - but controlled and timed so that it differs throughout the day.

The frogspawn will need to be in a sheltered place.

Here are some videos of these kinds of reef areas:

This is one such place I'm very familiar with. It's in Hawaii; unfortunately the coral life in Hawaii is not very diverse, so the main species here is a Porites species common at that depth.

Here's another one, I think near indonesia.

 

[Mr.Asbury]

Great idea, would be really nice to see the tanks near each other if(when ) you get another region tank to go with it. Be sure to post lots of pictures!