Originally Posted by
Bang Guy
I'm only replying because you haven't gotten a bite yet.
For me, nano tanks are difficult enough without worrying about overfeeding. If you feed Ricordea they will grow faster and split more often but they don't have to be fed.
If you do large, regular waterchanges then you probably don't need other test kits unless you start having problems. When diagnosing a problem it is very helpful for me if you provide the following parameters:
Temperature
Salinity
PH
Alkalinity
Calcium
Ammonia
Nitrate
Phosphate
I can't remember them all right now...I write them in my little journal where I compare them to the "ideal" perimeters, which I can't remember without looking.... short term memory loss is the worst!
but I do know that the ones I check for are these:
Temp is always at 78 or 79
salinity, PH, Am and nitrite and nitrate- all ideal
So that is what i am working with.....do I need to test for phosphate and Alkalinity? or were you just saying hypothetically if there is a problem those are the perimeters you need to know?
