Help me on my tank that I am taking over

[bcollins520]

Hello, I am taking over a take from my father and its a 15 gal tank. He hasnt been taken care of it for the past 3 months real well so I cleaned it out and changed about 20% of the water. The fish that are in it are: 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Percula Clown, 1 Starfish, 1 Domino Damsel (Not completly sure about that just by looking at the pictures on the website), and 1 Lunare Wrasse. I have tested the tank and it has filtered for about a day and all of the readings are just a bit high (on the meter most of them are off by the next step up from normal). Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do to help, anything good I should get to help the fish, or anything that would help me out. This is my first saltwater tank and I am kinda shooting in the dark. Help me Please!!

 

[pufferlover]

My goodness did I read this right a 15 gallon tank with a Tang, Wrasse, Clown,starfish, and a Damsel and they are all still alive amazing. Now to get serious I see you are new and that means you are here for help but this will not do to gloss this over for you. If indeed that tank is a 15 then how any of the fish are still alive is beyond me (so you are not to upset with me so far I to have a 15 among my tanks, but with 2 baby fish in it thats it). My lord the lunare wrasse gets pretty darn big by itself so it must be a baby now. Your readings will never be right even if you did water changes every day. Now if you are into this so far then I would suggest you get yourself a bigger tank (if you can afford to do that) If not you had better get rid of some of those fish and get down to a couple. The Damsel, wrasse and Tang are going to grow to fast and to big so they should go first. I would keep the clown and find another small fish to round out the tank. I could go on and on but lets see what others think.

 

[dlight692000]

i will make this a bit brief but i am sure people will tell you the same as i am, that is a lot of fish for that tank, maybe you could keep the clown and domino but then you are running into a aggression issue with the domino, but the lunare gets about 10 inches and that tang will get about 6 inches, and tangs are known for coming down with a red bacteria infection, mine came down wit it, but i cured it, but thats another story. get rid of the lunare and tang and it should be fine

 

[seatank]

im going to half to agree with the others that is way to many fish in that tank i dont have that many in my 75 gall. maybe my 180 but to get back to your problem you have one of two choices either get a bigger tank or get rid of the fish tang,wrass,ect. sorry but thats all i can think of. If you decide to get a bigger tank use live rock and live sand to cycle it it will only take about a week to cycle. just my 2 cents.