bishop82
New Member
Allright, I'm sort of new to the hobby, right now I've got a ten gallon tank, with 24 lbs of LR 15 lbs of LS. lighting is a a 96 watt quad coralife light. Filter is a HOB Penguin 170 Bio wheel filter. At the moment i'm having problems with hair algae and algae growing on the glass of the tank, my phosphates are about .4 I'm doing about a 20% water change a week. Inhabitants are a yellow Coris wrasse, African yellow anenome, about 10 BL hermits 5 or 6 RL hermits, a sally lightfoot, mexican turbo, fighting conch, and a green mandarin. all have been there since january. As for the mandarin I get about a bag of pods from my LFS a week, i'm friends with one of the workers there. I'm thinking of adding some xenia and shrooms, maybe a leather or zoo's. the question I have is can anyone think of anything else I should do to the tank before I'm ready for corals? my nitrites are 0 nitrates are > 5 amonia is 0 calcium is about 650. I'm currently dosing the tank with strontium, calcium and iodine once a week. each about 1 ml. Any help would be appreciated.