scottie
New Member
hello everyone, I am knew to the forum and it looks great. I have had fish tanks for years however have only been dealing with salt water for the last year or so. I currently have a 55 gallon and 5 gallon. The 55 gallon has about 50 lbs of live rock, a wet dry, protein skimmer (sucks), 1 inch of crushed coral with 2 inches of sand ontop as the substrate. in the past i have had bad luck with my live stock however i do take blame because i have been lazy when it comes to water changes, i have been doing them only on a monthly bases (20% changes). for the past few months i have been able to keep a clown, and 2 sergent major damsels. I have had a valentini puffer and 2 small damsels for the last month and this week added a porcipine puffer, yellow tang, and 2 more small damsels all of which are small. I do not plan on getting anything else except for a couple more damsels maybe (i know that damsels rather be groups). My 5 gallon tank has about 5 lbs of live rock and all i have in it is a star fish and hermit crabs, i have kept it empty for the last couple of months trying to cycle it some more, everything it has died. I know the smaller the tank the harder because of more jurastic reactions to water changes/problems. I do not overfeed in either tank, if anything i underfeed. look forward to learning alot and being able to help people in the future.