My Marine Journal

[black molly3]

Nitrite 0.0mg/l and i havent got a nitrate test kit. all my readings seem fine now. i have about a kg of live rock rubble inside chamber 1 which has probably helped mature the filter. what should i do

 

[Truck]

Nitrite 0.0mg/l and i havent got a nitrate test kit. all my readings seem fine now. i have about a kg of live rock rubble inside chamber 1 which has probably helped mature the filter. what should i do

is all the live rock in yet? if not then you need to add that before you can get any livestock

 

[black molly3]

most of it but i think i am just going to make do with the stuff that i have got. i have around 6kg in there now including the cruhed liverock in my filter.

 

[Truck]

most of it but i think i am just going to make do with the stuff that i have got. i have around 6kg in there now including the cruhed liverock in my filter.

sounds good for 50 litres, buy a nitrate test kit tommorow, then test if its below 10ppm or mg/litre, do you 50% WC then test again in twelve hours

 

[kj23502]

10ppm or mg/litre, do you 50% WC then test again in twelve hours

Just curious, why do you say it has to be below 10 nitrates before you do a water change? The nitrate bacteria does take the longest to grow. A person could do as large of a water change as needed as soon as ammonia, nitrite are 0 and then add fish.

 

[Truck]

because some members of CUC are not tolerant of higher levels. the Live rock should be converting nitrates to nitrogen too.

 

[kj23502]

hmmm...To me it sounded like they take a really really long time to grow. They generally grow deep in the lr and in deep sand beds. So as long as a tank isn't heavily stocked or is skimmed, weekly waterchanges should be able to keep the nitrate in check while also letting the denitrifying bacteria grow bit by bit as it becomes available to be processed, right?

 

[black molly3]

monia dead on 0. do you think i could put a marron clownfish in the tank because the place where i work has a very nice small one for 19 pounds and a few people have been looking at him and i want him haha.
thanks

 

[kj23502]

If you have a larger tank you can have a maroon. They get rather large. They are aggressive/territorial. They can literally move your rock work if they don't like it. (Pushing rocks over) I'd love to have a gold striped one but decided not b/c of how territorial/nasty they can potentially become.

what's nitrite and nitrate at ?

 

[Truck]

maroon clown is way to big for a 50 litre, and IMO 50 litres is too small for any clown. stick with gobies and other small species, if you want clowns get a bigger tank

 

[kj23502]

You can have a clown in there. 50 liters is 13 gallons. Stick w/Amphiron Occelaris or A. Perucula.

That said you couldn't really add anything else but a goby and CUC.

Kj

 

[black molly3]

are yellow spotted gobies hardy. would i be able to put one of them in by say tuesday after i water change my tank and all my stats have came back down

 

[Truck]

are yellow spotted gobies hardy. would i be able to put one of them in by say tuesday after i water change my tank and all my stats have came back down

add CUC then a week later your first fish.

50 liters is 13 gallons

that is the volume of the tank before rock and sand, after rock and sand its probably 35 litres maybe less. so IMO to small

 

[kj23502]

difference of opinion, respectfully. I still say she could add 1 small clown

 

[black molly3]

haha its he. and i probably will add a clown is that is the reason i wanted it its not going to be cramped for space or anything its going to a good home. so a spotted yellow gobie is a no no