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From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: Getting a bigger tank. Filter? Airpump?
Message-ID: <3548@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:14:20 GMT
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In article <90016.222839NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> NMBCU@CUNYVM writes:

>After the transfer is complete. I plan on setting up the 20H as a marine
>water tank. I've never had one of these before, so I'm going to start
>small. Small tank, small marine fish (clowns, damsels - two each), and
>hope they survive.

The population you are suggesting (clowns, damsels) is quite reasonable for
a salt-water tank, the size you are suggesting is not.  If you limit yourself
to a 20H, you pretty much have to use a trickle filter unless you want your
tank to regularily bounce.  A UG wouldn't work.  This is going to drive your
entry level price much higher than a 30L with a UG filter.

>I'll add a coral reef for the damels and at the other end of the tank
>a anemone(s) (sp?) for the two clowns. 

I wouldn't advise this.  Dead (ornamental) coral is OK.  Don't even think
of anemones or live coral (or even live rock) without a trickle filter in
a tank larger than a 20H.

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