Hi,
I am new to marine keeping having only starting the hobby in March this year. What I find very anoying and frustrating is the different advice you get from LFS about stocking levels. Having had very bad advice and experiencing a comeplete crash(killing everything) it leaves you very unsure about stocking levels.
Is there way of increasing the stocking levels of the livestock without stressing the fish? I have been told that additional cannister filters/sumps etc can increase this but unsure as to why/how this works.
There is always an urge for just one more fish but I would never knowingly risk any harm to any livestock.
Out of interest I currently have a Red Sea Max 250 with a seperate Aqua 1 2450 UV cannister filter. My parameters are fairly constant at Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0-20 calcium 440 magnesium 1400 strontium 10 phosphate 0 amonia 0 pH 8.1-8.3 kh 10 and salinity 1.025.
I currently have an algae blenny, 2 dwarf angels, 2 fairy wrasse, a peacock wrasse, a royal gramma, a yellow tang and 5 carribean basslets.
I have had advice ranging from not adding any more fish other than gobies that count as CUC to could add up to 5 more.
What do people think? Look forward to hearing opinions.
Look forward
I am new to marine keeping having only starting the hobby in March this year. What I find very anoying and frustrating is the different advice you get from LFS about stocking levels. Having had very bad advice and experiencing a comeplete crash(killing everything) it leaves you very unsure about stocking levels.
Is there way of increasing the stocking levels of the livestock without stressing the fish? I have been told that additional cannister filters/sumps etc can increase this but unsure as to why/how this works.
There is always an urge for just one more fish but I would never knowingly risk any harm to any livestock.
Out of interest I currently have a Red Sea Max 250 with a seperate Aqua 1 2450 UV cannister filter. My parameters are fairly constant at Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0-20 calcium 440 magnesium 1400 strontium 10 phosphate 0 amonia 0 pH 8.1-8.3 kh 10 and salinity 1.025.
I currently have an algae blenny, 2 dwarf angels, 2 fairy wrasse, a peacock wrasse, a royal gramma, a yellow tang and 5 carribean basslets.
I have had advice ranging from not adding any more fish other than gobies that count as CUC to could add up to 5 more.
What do people think? Look forward to hearing opinions.
Look forward