could somebody please tell me what kind of catfish you can put in a reef tank.The tank is 60x20x24
there is about 20kg of living rock with roughly 12 soft corals
I am not looking for anything that will grow too big and feast on everything it see's
the fish that are in there are:
2 percula clowns
1 pink skunk
1 brown wacthman gobie
1 cleaner wrasse
1 yellow tang
1 sailfin tang
1 regal tang
2 damsels(1 oxygen,1 ?)
1 manderin
1 cleaner shrimp
4 hermit crabs
there is a sifting of coral sand on the bottom for the gobie to use
FILTRATION SYSTEM:
1 JEWEL(JUMBO)BOX FILTER(INTERNAL)
1 AQUAPRO 1 EXTERNAL BOX FILTER(600LITRES P/H)
4 POWER HEADS FOR THE MOVEMENT OF WATER
1 PRIZM PROTEIN SKIMMER
LIGHTING CONSISTS OF 2X150 HALIDES
2X ACTINICS TUBES
THESE RUN ON A TIMER AUTO SET
DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF THIS SYSTEM WILL BE BETTER RUN ON A SUMP TANK FILTER SYSTEM?
MANY THANKS DARREN
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WITH 2XACTINICS TUBES
There is one species of saltwater catfish that is suitable in the home aquarium and its the most comon one available as well. Im not sure of the species name off the top of my head but you can google it by putting "liveaquaria" and I think find them under there fish section as well as a brief care sheet. These do best though is small shoals of 3-7 fish.
Looking at the list of your fish though that you already have I wouldnt really recommend adding any more unless you will be upgrading to a larger tank in the near future. Granted a number of your fish are small and thats great but those tangs will get to be some size and need lots of swimming room. Just something you might want to consider....
HTH's
I dont know about the shark but agree with rit on the hole tang thing. as for a sump yes but you dont have to get one. but i do have to comment on that mandarin you need to have a extremely healthy copepod and rotifer population to feed him and you only have about 40 pounds of rock in that tank. i have twice that in one of my 50's. Sorry if i'm attacking you on the mandarin but they have low survival rates in home aquariums and most of the people that by them dont know anything about them or how to feed them properly. but do a google search for some information on the shark.