Please help with saltwater tank?

Question

Fish: 2 reidi seahorse, 1 pearly jawfish, 1 blue sea star,1 Bangaii Cardinal, and 1 striped mandarinfish

Coral: Red Sea fan, sun coral, Clove Polyp, Toadstool Mushroom

Other inverts: Dwarf dusters, Purple Nudi, blue sponge, spiny sponge

All in a 55 gallon tank(note: I have none of these things yet)

Answer 1

Thats a horrible set up. IMO, if you really want good answers you need to do research.

First off the sea horses are for very experienced SW people. They are super picky eaters, and the water they live in has to be little to no flow.

Jawfish need a very deep sand bed. They like to burrow. So you need to be careful about the way you place your "Live Rock", you don't want land slides.

Star fish are for very experienced reef keepers also. They cannot tolerate any type of copper meds. They cannot stand any fluctuation in temp, salinity, or PH.

Mandarins are super hard to keep also. They ONLY eat live foods. You cannot buy this live food they eat. You need to have a well established tank with a "refugem" with live rock and cheato for the pod to grow. One Mandarin can totally wipe out a family of pods in a matter of days. Then the little guy starves.

Im not trying to be mean what soever. I just think people jump into things way to fast before doing research about it. Your talking about living things. Do your research first. ALOT of it.

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Answer 2

The seahorses will NOT survive in that tank. They are very poor swimmers and painfully slow eaters. They will not be able to compete with the other fish. you can only put seahorses with other seahorses or pipe fish (who are also poor swimmers) The others you have listed should be ok. Make sure the tank has cycled before you try to add corral or it will just die. Non of those fish are terribly tough and if this is your first tank you may want to look at some damsels and a yellow tang as they are more adaptable and will be more likely to survive first time boo boos. Seahorses are really tough to raise and need special care. They are not a good starter fish.

Answer 3

Are you asking if you can keep all of those in a 55 gallon tank?

As long as you have a filter, heater, and protein skimmer (this is optional though), then you you can. But I strongly suggest that Seahorses be kept by themselves in their own tank, because they are shy creatures and other fish may eat the food before they do.

And if you have the proper water flow and lighting for the corals, then you can keep those.

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Answer 4

seahorses aren't that good of an idea because they require very little flow in the tank whereas polyps and other various corals require alot of flow...

also mandarin gobies are not that good of an idea until you have had the tank set up for a while because of the food that they need in the tank...

and pretty much as everyone has said before definitely do your research because if not you will create your tank with no knowledge and thats definitely not good for saltwater...you can get away with freshwater with no knowledge because they are all cheapy fish but you don't want to take that risk with saltwater..