bkolfo4
New Member
Hi everyone. Been a while since I have posted. I have had my 24G nano for a little over a year now and it is doing GREAT. I still love it like the day I bought it.
It is a little overloaded (from what I have read), but I always change 5 gallons every two weeks, and the water seems to stay in check.
I currently have 25 Lbs of LR, LS, a small clown (I had a clown for 8 months that got fairly large, but I traded him in on a new clown, as he got aggressive to everything else in the tank. I hated to do it, but the other fish kept getting damaged fins, stayed behind the rocks, etc.), a royal gramma, a pajama cardinal, a cleaner shrimp, three pepermint shrimp (man did they get rid of the anemones), 15 hermit crabs, and 8 snails.
I have two questions:
1. From what I can see watching the tank at night with the moon lights, I have one bristle worm that made it in on the LR. I have watched this guy grow, and now he is around 5" long. Looks VERY big now when he comes out (and he does within a few minutes of lights off pretty much every night). Is he getting too big? Should I catch him and get him out?
2. My nitrates stay around 30, but I want to get them down lower. Talking to the LFS (it seems to be a pretty good one), They seem to think I am over feeding and suggested I feed the same amount I feed now but every other day instead of every day. I feed a multipack that has 3/4" x 3/4" x 1/2" cubes of frozen food in it. I feed 1/3 of a cube each day. On some days, if I am really busy, I feed a small portion of flakes instead. The LFS say feed 1/6th of a cube daily, or 1/3 every other day. . . What do you think?
Thanks!
Brian
It is a little overloaded (from what I have read), but I always change 5 gallons every two weeks, and the water seems to stay in check.
I currently have 25 Lbs of LR, LS, a small clown (I had a clown for 8 months that got fairly large, but I traded him in on a new clown, as he got aggressive to everything else in the tank. I hated to do it, but the other fish kept getting damaged fins, stayed behind the rocks, etc.), a royal gramma, a pajama cardinal, a cleaner shrimp, three pepermint shrimp (man did they get rid of the anemones), 15 hermit crabs, and 8 snails.
I have two questions:
1. From what I can see watching the tank at night with the moon lights, I have one bristle worm that made it in on the LR. I have watched this guy grow, and now he is around 5" long. Looks VERY big now when he comes out (and he does within a few minutes of lights off pretty much every night). Is he getting too big? Should I catch him and get him out?
2. My nitrates stay around 30, but I want to get them down lower. Talking to the LFS (it seems to be a pretty good one), They seem to think I am over feeding and suggested I feed the same amount I feed now but every other day instead of every day. I feed a multipack that has 3/4" x 3/4" x 1/2" cubes of frozen food in it. I feed 1/3 of a cube each day. On some days, if I am really busy, I feed a small portion of flakes instead. The LFS say feed 1/6th of a cube daily, or 1/3 every other day. . . What do you think?
Thanks!
Brian
