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Originally Posted by aquaria I have a 36g bow, in the aggressive style tank i had some damsels and 2 eels, with the only fish compatable with the others i was limited to selection due to bio-load and my tank is pretty small. I decided to switch because i wanted to do inverts and possibly corals...

Originally Posted by 1journeyman Who adds every trace element? Trace elements include things like copper, manganese, etc. No one doses (and tests for the right concentration of every trace element). Not to mention how costly that would be versus just doing a water change. ARE YOU...

but if you have good gas exchange and are adding trace elements, like calcium, and you are taking all of the decomposed matter in the water out through refug, skimmers, wet dry fillters, i dont see the need to change the water, unless something drastic happens to it, like a dead fish that you...

hey 1journeyman, i am wondering why you are not letting go of the water changes. if he is having a fish tank, not a reef, and he gets the refug all set up and through the cycleing stages, i am wondering why you would be doing the water changes?

the best way is to use a refugium, this way you are not just replacing the water to have the same problem down the road you are fixing it permenently through the use of the nature nitogen cycle of plants, and algea's. the best way to find out more info on them and how they are made is to search...

hi guys i am wondering if any one has or knows of a unit that will test it all with digital read outs. nitrates, nitrites,ammonia, salinity, temp, o'2 levels...thanks

i forgot one other point in my pervious post.....gas exchange also plays an important part in determining the question "how many fish?"....if you do not have alot of surface area on the top of your tank or a way to airate the tank... the envirnment in the tank will not beable to sistain as many...

there is no real formula, 1" for 1 gallon or 1"for 5 gallons. it all depends on the amount of biological filtration that you have in the tank. maybe if you have 20 lbs of live rock in a 20 gallon tank you could only have one or two fish... it also depends on what type of fish, some fish are way...