14 gallon nano aquarium stocking?
by Aquaboy on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | 3 Comments
I have a 14gallon nano reef that i need help stocking. I already have 5 blue legged hermits, 4 snails(Astrea), 1 Emerald Mithrax Crab, some mushroom coral and a leather coral(toadstool)
so now i need to decide on fish, shrimp, other inverts, and more corals. Any suggestions? I have a total of 48 watts of compact fluorescent lighting on this tank.
What kind of shrimp would you suggest?
What and how many fish would you suggest?
Any other cool inverts to include/look into?
What are some good corals for my setup?
THNX.
-Ian
this is a saltwater tank….
for every inch of the fish it needs one gallon of water. Ghost shrimp are interesting.
Look into gobbies. You could probably get away with 3 small fish like two gobbies and a smaller kind of clownfish. Depending on your little I would go with star polyps and maybe a trumpet coral. As for anemones and inverts look into bubble tip anemones I even unbleached mine in my 24 gallon reef. Skunk cleaner shrimps are more active but less colorful than blood cleaner shrimp you you will have to chose what you want. Their are thousands of possibilities on what you can do with your tank , so have fun!
the oceanic biocube 14 gallon is a good starter marine aquarium, i personally have a peppermint shrimp in my BC14, i do like scarlet cleaner shrimps but i dont have much success for some reason.
For fish, on my nano aquariums i do like to keep a pair of ocellaris clownfish. That really maxs out your aquarium but you can get away with a goby, i like neons or firefish.
I would look into a white sand shifting star fish, they can get big but they do a great job in marine aquariums mixing up the sand and keeping everything clean.
ok for corals the PC lighting does a good job with soft corals, xenia, star polyps, yellow polyps, really isnt enough for LPS and SPS corals.