18 fish in a 55 gal mix reef tank

[suvuong7]

I just added a frag of red planet doing nicely so far along with a purple lobster....can't get a picture of him he's always hiding in the creveses....will try to get a picture and post it tonight...my gobby I'll add that picture tonight as well...he looks like an eel so he's always hidding as well.

 

[reefer19]

Any aggression with the fish? Do you have a lot of live rock?

 

[wickedfish]

I will need 2 weeks to take those off of your hands if I put them in my current tank ww3 will erupt as I have a large Purple and a pissed off wrasse. But I know when my other tank is set I would like the sailfin and whatever Tangs you wanna sell.

My blue needs a buddy and so does my yellow he or she gets punked alot

 

[suvuong7]

hopefully you get that tank setup soon I need to get those guys out before the Salfin pass away.....he's been Fish slap by the yellow tang many times when he tries to swim out....he's just in one corner right now....so sad.....

 

[suvuong7]

litterally the salfin gets fish slap by the yellow tang....he doesn't bite by he slap the Salfin with his tail it's a funny thing to see it happens but kind of sad at the same time.

 

[suvuong7]

ok I think I just lost a fish....had 2 bartlet anthias.....went home today to only see 1 in the tank.....**** IT!!!

 

[lurking]

litterally the salfin gets fish slap by the yellow tang....he doesn't bite by he slap the Salfin with his tail it's a funny thing to see it happens but kind of sad at the same time.

Tangs fight with their fins. They are like razor blades and will attack the other fish with em. Slice n dice ese

 

[BeanMachine]

Dude you bought a purple lobster? Um that might munch your fish...

 

[danagui]

hey if you have any aggression with your clowns i'll take a pair in!

 

[kingsolomon2]

this has to be a troll, that is so manny fish

 

[suvuong7]

ok so I lost another bartlett anthia.....f*** me.....those two were my favorite.....the salfin looks like it's next to go....the other 2 I added the same day looks like they will thrive pretty good though.....2 out of five new fish survive....not all is lost =)

 

[DEC6]

I am curious how long your tank has been established. You seem to have a pretty high turnover and always seem to be adding. If you look at a tank in the LFS it looks nice but probably could not be maintained long term. The corals are basically on display until someone buys them, then the new batch comes in. Everything looks good for a while. What is the "oldest" thing in your tank????

 

[suvuong7]

all my corals.....haven't lost any corals.

 

[toomuch420]

you shouldn't even b able 2 have fish!what you are doing is called cruelty 2 animals. Everyone told you there gonna die way 2 many fish & you keep putting more stuff in 2 DIE.with all the info at our finger tips & still ppl don't do any homework,poor fish
also you shouldn't put more than a cpl in at a time

 

[DEC6]

all my corals.....haven't lost any corals.

No, I mean how long has your tank been set up 2 years, 1 year, 6 months, 3 months?

 

[suvuong7]

1 year now

 

[Wetdreads]

Things keep dying because your tank is overcrowded, stop adding fish! You asked for advice and multiple people told you it's too many. You keep trying to justify it by saying your tank it thriving, when clearly it is not. You're ignoring the advice you asked for and then try and throw it in the faces of the people trying to help you just to prove them wrong. Just because you CAN buy something, definitely doesn't mean you should.

 

[suvuong7]

so what you're saying is I should replace my dead ones with something that can thrive better in my tank with my other fish right....

 

[-=Mach=-]

so what you're saying is I should replace my dead ones with something that can thrive better in my tank with my other fish right....

Lol throw in so more fishes to make up for your losses :clap2: erfect10:

 

[DEC6]

I think he (and everyone else) is trying to tell you that a certain size aquarium has a limited capacity as to how many live things you can keep in it. Even though you can by something new and put in it, long term they will not thrive and will eventually die. You will just be displaying it short term until it dies and that's not reefing.

So.... do NOT replace the dead ones, maybe even SELL some of the live ones while they are still alive. You have to slow down a bit and let your tank reach some sort of equilibrium.