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    Hello everyone!

    I have a question to all of you
    I have a 55 gal tank that has been up and running for about 1 year now. I have a lot of live rock but couldn't tell you how many pounds. The only livestock I have in my aquarium right now is:

    7 Red Hermit Crab (Dardanus megistos))
    1 Engineer Goby (Pholidichthys leucotaenia)
    1 Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
    1 Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni)
    10 Cerith Snail (Cerithium sp.)
    1 Ocellaris Clownfish
    2 Blue Green Chromis (Chromis viridis)
    1 Purple Condy Anemone - (Condylactis gigantea)
    1 Serpent Star (Ophioderma brevispimum)

    All of these exept my condy have been in my tank since my tank has cycled and are doing very well. My Question is:
    I would like a very wide variety of animals in my tank (i.e. Starfish, seahorses, Anemones, etc.) but I am not quite sure of which animals would work realy well in a 55 gal reef tank setup together.
    Are there any suggestions to animals to purchase? What is everyone's favorite animal (Fish and coral).
    Please help because I am taking my hobby kind of serious and would like to upgrade one day to maybe a 200 gal setup or bigger.
    thanx
    Last edited by edmondspl; 02-05-2006 at 11:40 PM.

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    You need to answer a few more questions too. What kind of lights? What kind of filteration? Also I do not recommend putting a seahorse in with other fish. Also I do not recommend trying to put more than one anemone in a 55 gal. You need to consider the filteration and how often you do water changes before you start to increase the Bio load of your tank.
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    HERE ARE SOME OF MY THINGS

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