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post #1 of 9
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I have a 94 gallon corner tank with a 20 gallon sump/refrigum. I got about 60lbs of live sand from someone who was no longer going to have an aquarium plus additional 20lbs of live sand from LFS and 30lbs crushed coral we left this and 10 gallons of salt water for about a week. We then filled the rest of the tank added 25lbs of live rock from LFS that had just came in a few days before from the ocean plus additional 50lbs of rock that had been dormant for 7 years turned heater on, protein skimmer, pump, had everything running through sump. Algae had started to grow again on the dead rock we had our water tested after a week we had less then 5 on both ammonia and nitrate and was showing a little nitrite. I was told that in a few days we could add a few cleaning crew. So three days later I took water to different LFS store to have tested an get second opinion and all ammonia and nitrate was 0 and nitrite was around 2. We then added 5 turbo snails, 5 cone head snails, and 5 varies sizes of hermits all are doing great. As well as 2 1300gph powerheads. This was about 4 days ago all numbers are at zero would it be safe to add 2 clown fish at this time. Thanks.

post #2 of 9

Hiya and welcome.....

 

Personally I would say no. Give it another week or so. May I ask what you cycled the tank with? A raw shrimp or what not? I would also recommend that you test the water yourself. ALWAYS test yourself.

post #3 of 9
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I was told that since the live rock had just came in it was good for starting new tanks cause of the natural die off no shrimp was needed. But now I'm worried that my snails will run out of food if we don't get fish in their to dirty it up a little.

post #4 of 9

I too would wait atleast a few more days,, wont hurt the snails because it takes a while for fish to start making a mess,lol

(also not to point out but even though you have no fish currently in the tank you should still QT new ones)

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Originally Posted by smallreef View Post

I too would wait atleast a few more days,, wont hurt the snails because it takes a while for fish to start making a mess,lol

(also not to point out but even though you have no fish currently in the tank you should still QT new ones)



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WELCOME!

post #8 of 9
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Thanks everyone for the information I have one more question. Which fish food is better omega brine shrimp or just the regular brine shrimp brand name is San fransico or are they about the same.
Edited by Jbarrett5 - 2/4/12 at 5:57pm
post #9 of 9

About the same IMO... brine shrimp really isn't that good of a food though.  You'd be much better off getting Emerald Entree (from San Francisco Bay Brand), or something along those lines to give the fish more variety.

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