Tank Build! What I've been up to - Greenhouse build

copper band buterfly work for aptassia ora file fish and nudibranches work

 

i hate six line wrasses they are mean a fast an hard to catch harder than catching my tangs the also pick sps and zoos i had one eat my cali tort polyps

 

We have 2 matted filefish that work great on aptasia and have not (at least yet) bothered coral. I've heard they can be hit or miss on coral-safe. The ORA bred filefish is the white potted pygmy and not the matted and I have not heard it is an aptasia eater but don't have any experience with it

 

Yellow coris wrasse seem to do well for pest control if you don't want the more obnoxious six-line.

 

I used a ton of 6 lines, because I could get them dirt cheap. They can be mean, but when you have a ton of them in a coral prop system they seem ok. Any other wrasse that has the small pointed mouths like them work well. There is a big difference between having a farming system, and a display system. Anything you add should serve a function.

I have never heard of a wrasse eating or nipping at any type of coral, ever.

 

I use yellow tangs and yellow Corin wrasse in my frag tanks. Both are cheap and good at what they do. I don't like 6 line to agrees I've but like xroads said a big system you should be good.

 

you should be fine with both

 

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I hate those big wrasses like those and lunar. You want small wrasses with small mouths.

 

Are you adding anything to the water for food and what are you using to keep calcium and alkalinity in check also what are you useing to export nutrients.
I am very interested in your green house build and will be following along.

 

Clam farm would be a thing of my dreams!!!!

Can toss trochus snails in there too. My favorite reef snail they will reproduce and can sell them for decent money. Unique corals sells baby trochus that have bred in their systems.

 

Flame algae is a really hot seller, I think thee is a blue out there too. You could have a seperate tank of that, and feed it fertilizer. Same with Cheato. There is a decent market for algaes.

 

For sure. Any type of macro algaes, especially display types. I would think they would grow like crazy in you green house.

 

I am giving the Deep Water pumps a go. Talking to some industry insiders, every DC pump runs the same motor out of the same factory.

I am using mine internally, I hate external pumps.