allirudy
New Member
Hi everyone! Rudy and I are new to the board and hope you can offer some insight on how we should continue to stock our tank!
We have a 29 gallon Biocube with the following: 25+lbs of live rock (developing lots of pretty white, purple, and green coraline algae), 2 small hermits (one zebra, one blueleg), 1 blood shrimp, 4 turbo snails, 2 astrea snails, 1 nerite snail, a small bit of polyp coral, 1 pajama cardinal, and 1 lawnmower blenny. I'm not a big fan of crabs, so I'm hoping the blenny and snails will keep any algae in check. So far everything looks beautiful. We can hopefully post some pics before long. Our water measurements -- nitrates, nitrites, pH, buffer, specific gravity -- are always great (don't have #s in front of me but they're always right in acceptable range), and we keep the temp around 76-78.
Early on, we unfortunately had a couple of losses due to the temp getting too cold. We didn't realize that with the AC on in our house, our tank was dropping to 70, maybe even 68 degrees, at night. That led to some sad discoveries on a couple of mornings. But since installing a heater, everyone is doing very well.
We've researched online but obviously the opinions of people who've been there before are always appreciated. We'd like to have a couple more nirite snails, a black perc, a clown goby, and a suitable anemone. Do you think those fishies would be happy in our environment? And is it too much to add all at once? Not all need to be added at once if the bioload would increase too dramatically.
Let us know what you think!
Thanks!!
We have a 29 gallon Biocube with the following: 25+lbs of live rock (developing lots of pretty white, purple, and green coraline algae), 2 small hermits (one zebra, one blueleg), 1 blood shrimp, 4 turbo snails, 2 astrea snails, 1 nerite snail, a small bit of polyp coral, 1 pajama cardinal, and 1 lawnmower blenny. I'm not a big fan of crabs, so I'm hoping the blenny and snails will keep any algae in check. So far everything looks beautiful. We can hopefully post some pics before long. Our water measurements -- nitrates, nitrites, pH, buffer, specific gravity -- are always great (don't have #s in front of me but they're always right in acceptable range), and we keep the temp around 76-78.
Early on, we unfortunately had a couple of losses due to the temp getting too cold. We didn't realize that with the AC on in our house, our tank was dropping to 70, maybe even 68 degrees, at night. That led to some sad discoveries on a couple of mornings. But since installing a heater, everyone is doing very well.
We've researched online but obviously the opinions of people who've been there before are always appreciated. We'd like to have a couple more nirite snails, a black perc, a clown goby, and a suitable anemone. Do you think those fishies would be happy in our environment? And is it too much to add all at once? Not all need to be added at once if the bioload would increase too dramatically.
Let us know what you think!
Thanks!!
