Nano for Beginners???

[Skimmerking]

WEll i disagree with your answer here you can have 3 fish in a 8 gallon tank you look at the 12 gal DX JBJ models they are aound 9 gallons and 2-3 gals if that of it is filtering you can easily have 2 hi fi gobies or 2 cleaner goies and a chromis or a clown with them.. My friend in the states has one going as we speak and has no problems .....

Originally Posted by Flusher

No three fish can live in an 8 gallon tank, AFAIK. That's overstocked, and in the very least the fish will be crammed and unhappy.

Add at least a pound or two of decent (and expensive) live rock to your set up and let the tank cycle/mature for at least a month. Keep up on the maintenance and monitor your water parameters, and you should be okay with maybe one very small fish. Do lots of research as you go, though.

I started with a 13 gallon tank and have been adding live rock to it bit by bit for a few months. I now have a 4 gallon sump on the tank, 26 lb. of live rock, two occellaris clowns, and quite a few corals.

I'm just starting up a 6 gallon nano which might house a clown goby in the future, or a smaller Mantis Shrimp if I can find one.

[Flusher]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

WEll i disagree with your answer here you can have 3 fish in a 8 gallon tank

Cool. I prefer to understock my tanks, though. I learned the hard way from my early days of freshwater tanks that too many fish never works out well.

Chromis prefer to be in schools (three or more), and IME clowns prefer to be in pairs (my first clown seemed really unhappy until I added the second, anyway - this is why I added the sump and skimmer to my tank). From what I've read, several types of gobies are territorial, too. So, picking three fish to go in an 8 gallon tank, for a beginner, might be a little tricky.
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