Hi, i have a 20gal freshwater tank which i will be changing over to salt water sooner or later.. i have figured everything basically except my stocking list.. this is what i am hoping for, will this be okay??

2 ocellaris Clowns
1 Randell's goby
1 pistol shrimp
and maby a small 6 line wrasse??
simple inverts

Yea, list looks ok. Might get by with the Six Line in there, may be alittle tight for that one though.

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id also like to add a cleaner shrimp.. would the pistol and cleaner shrimps fight?? i heard u cant keep two of them together??

I would not put them together, your liable to end up losing a Cleaner Shrimp.

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Take a look at the YouTube vids of yellow headed jaw fish

You would love it

Problem is they are too smart and jump thru half inch gap

Atleadtmine did

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29 Gallon Tall Planted and running Eheim 2217
~~ a German Blue ram pair, 9 Harlequin rasboras, 2 octilincus, 2 Dwarf neon rainbows and a honey sunset Gaurami

16 gallon Bowfront tank ~~ 3 Neon Tetras, red tailed shark, 1 angel (its a real bully), BN pleco and an albino BN pleco.

Gotta throw a screen over the top to keep the jumpers in.

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What will your setup be? Will it have coral and/or inverts? will it be FOWLR(fish only with live rock)? This will help with your question lol.

Just remember, the more fish you have, the more difficult it will be in keeping the stress level down. They might get really shy or get sick and/or aggressive.

My advice with that small tank is to have 2 fish that are introduced at the same time and have an assortment of inverts like crab and maybe keep some easy-caring coral like sea mushrooms and zooad's. This will let you have a mini ocean while still having some fish. I keep low light coral under flourescent lighting with ease without a protien skimmer.

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36 Gallon Saltwater reef tank
Ocellaris Clown, Scooter Dragonet, sandsifter star, Decorator crab, emerald crab, coralline snails, blue leg hermit crab, and horseshoe crab.
Zooad's and shrooms
40 pounds of Live sand, 20 pounds of LR
Canister filter, 1-unit of chemipure
VHO 2-39W bulbs reef sun/actinic

Im reconsidering the 20 and may sell it to get a 40 gallon instead.. and yes at first it would be folwr but once i gain more experience i will eventually add some soft corals. for filtration.. i would like to have a deep sand bed with ample live rock and water flow coupled with a large skimmer.. no refug or sump i dont have the room.. but i dont plan on have hard corals or even any corals in the near future.. oh and yes simple invernts.. hermits snails.. and i dumped the six line wrasse.. i would rather have less fish that are happier then more that are not.. and what type of flourescent lighting so you have?? i just have the regular stock light with two bulbs on now.. would this be enough even for a fowlr?? do you think the coraline algae could bleach?

Normal flourescent are fine for FOWLR tanks. Coralline can bleach out, turn white.

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what additives should i add because it will only be fowlr.. magnesium, alkilinity, calcium, i have heard they all work together??

They all do work together but your only doing a FOWLR, no need to watch everything. What you need to watch is Nitrates, Calcium (LR still needs some) and Salinity. If you wnat Coralline growth, you'll need to also watch Alkalinity, Magnesium and Phospahtes.

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ok thanks.. do they make an all in one bottle for additives?? hb copper? i heard it is bad for inverts

No copper. Its bad for a saltwater tank. Inverts, corals and live rock. I dose only what's needed.

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would the filtration that i said earlier work?? a 20 or 40 gal Fowlr.. deep sand bed with ample live rock and flow with a large skimmer..

Yes

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i have an old hob filter.. could i just use all carbon in it because the sponge is rlly justva nitrate fartory.. would this b effective..

Sure, you can use the filter as just like a Carbon Reactor. Running just carbon in it.

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ok thankx