wnysaltnewbie
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I have a 90g "bottom drilled" tank with a wet/dry filter. I also have a protein filter. It's a fish-only setup with no live rock, but I did put in about 8lbs of live sand a week ago. The live sand seemed to help finish off the cycling. During the cycling stage I had 3 small clowns, 2 small striped damsels, 2 small domino damsels (semi-aggressive little
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), 2 med-sized green chromis, and two small yellow-tailed blue damsels. About 3 weeks ago when my ammonia levels dropped, but my nitrite and nitrate levels were very high, I lost both dominos, one striped, and one yellow-tailed damsel all in about a one week period. The tank finished cycling last week, so this weekend I traded in the 7 "starter" fish that were still flourishing and purchased the following: 1 med/large yellow tang, 1 med sized sailfin tang, 1 small/med sized porcupine puffer, and 1 med/large gold-striped maroon clownfish. So far they seem to be doing well together. I was most worried about the two tangs fighting. I'm guessing the 4 fish I have in there now are equivilant to the 7 smaller fish I had in there before. We're have alot of people over next weekend, and I'd really like to put in a picasso trigger fish just before that. OK, everyone line up and tell me I'm being too aggressive with the population so I won't do it. ...LOL. I'm a newbie, so any comments about anything in my setup would be appreciated. Also, I have a pretty cool setup for cycling my water, and can do a 1/3 water change in just a few mins. However, is that too large of a water change? I did two changes when I was cycling. One local fish dealer told me I should NEVER do a water change during the cycling, and another dealer told me I should. It's irrelevant now, but I'm still curious to know what people think about that too. Thanks all.
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), 2 med-sized green chromis, and two small yellow-tailed blue damsels. About 3 weeks ago when my ammonia levels dropped, but my nitrite and nitrate levels were very high, I lost both dominos, one striped, and one yellow-tailed damsel all in about a one week period. The tank finished cycling last week, so this weekend I traded in the 7 "starter" fish that were still flourishing and purchased the following: 1 med/large yellow tang, 1 med sized sailfin tang, 1 small/med sized porcupine puffer, and 1 med/large gold-striped maroon clownfish. So far they seem to be doing well together. I was most worried about the two tangs fighting. I'm guessing the 4 fish I have in there now are equivilant to the 7 smaller fish I had in there before. We're have alot of people over next weekend, and I'd really like to put in a picasso trigger fish just before that. OK, everyone line up and tell me I'm being too aggressive with the population so I won't do it. ...LOL. I'm a newbie, so any comments about anything in my setup would be appreciated. Also, I have a pretty cool setup for cycling my water, and can do a 1/3 water change in just a few mins. However, is that too large of a water change? I did two changes when I was cycling. One local fish dealer told me I should NEVER do a water change during the cycling, and another dealer told me I should. It's irrelevant now, but I'm still curious to know what people think about that too. Thanks all.