I want to add about four more fish to my tank. I would like to get some that are active and not always hiding. I've read descriptions of fish and some say "excellent water quality" or "plenty room to swim". My confusion is, what is considered "excellent water quality"? and What exactly is considered "plenty room to swim"? For example, I might think that having four feet of open space is plenty, but maybe six feet of open space is required. Or, I might think having 10ppm of nitrates or lower is excellent water, but 0 might be what they refer to.
One more question, if all my parameters are reading exactly where they suppose to, but I'm not doing a weekly water change, would my water still be considered excellent or not?
Can anyone answer these questions and also give me a list of active fish that would be good for my setup?
Thank you.
Here is my set-up, parameters and tankmates;
- 72g with 29g sump/fuge – In the fuge I have a 4” of sand, some live rock, and macro algae (chaetomorpha).
- This set-up has been up in this tank for almost one year. The liverock came from a tank running for 4 years.
- Water movement around 2500gph.
- Reef Octopus Skimmer – Ext PS-150
- About 120 lbs. of live rock
- I don’t know how many lbs. of aragonite, but it is around 1.5” height.
- Fish – Ocellaris Clown, True Percula, Scooter Blenny, and a Six line Wrasse. They are all smaller than 1.5”.
- One turbo snail, 14 blue leg hermit, 3 emerald crabs, sexy shrimp
- Corals – mushrooms, button polyps, one small pulsing Xenia, one tiny toadstool, cabbage coral, ricordeas, torch, frogspawn, green star polyps, yellow polyps, Kenya, acans, candy canes, sps slimer, monti red cap, plate coral, feather dusters, RBTA
- Spectrapure RO/DI – for water changes and top-offs
- Water changes – 20% every 3 weeks
- Lighting – Five VHO 550Watts T12 bulbs with Icecap ballast.
- Only feed once a day, not too much.
- Tests – API tests and Red Sea tests
- Parameters:
- Ammonia – 0
- Nitrite – 0
- Nitrate – 0 -
- Salinity – 1.026
- Temperature – 79 - 81
- Copper – 0
- PH – 8.3
- Calcium – 480
- Alkalinity – 2.8
One more question, if all my parameters are reading exactly where they suppose to, but I'm not doing a weekly water change, would my water still be considered excellent or not?
Can anyone answer these questions and also give me a list of active fish that would be good for my setup?
Thank you.
Here is my set-up, parameters and tankmates;
- 72g with 29g sump/fuge – In the fuge I have a 4” of sand, some live rock, and macro algae (chaetomorpha).
- This set-up has been up in this tank for almost one year. The liverock came from a tank running for 4 years.
- Water movement around 2500gph.
- Reef Octopus Skimmer – Ext PS-150
- About 120 lbs. of live rock
- I don’t know how many lbs. of aragonite, but it is around 1.5” height.
- Fish – Ocellaris Clown, True Percula, Scooter Blenny, and a Six line Wrasse. They are all smaller than 1.5”.
- One turbo snail, 14 blue leg hermit, 3 emerald crabs, sexy shrimp
- Corals – mushrooms, button polyps, one small pulsing Xenia, one tiny toadstool, cabbage coral, ricordeas, torch, frogspawn, green star polyps, yellow polyps, Kenya, acans, candy canes, sps slimer, monti red cap, plate coral, feather dusters, RBTA
- Spectrapure RO/DI – for water changes and top-offs
- Water changes – 20% every 3 weeks
- Lighting – Five VHO 550Watts T12 bulbs with Icecap ballast.
- Only feed once a day, not too much.
- Tests – API tests and Red Sea tests
- Parameters:
- Ammonia – 0
- Nitrite – 0
- Nitrate – 0 -
- Salinity – 1.026
- Temperature – 79 - 81
- Copper – 0
- PH – 8.3
- Calcium – 480
- Alkalinity – 2.8
