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Originally Posted by DrHank  Keep up the good work. You're doing fine. Also, if you always check your parameters before you are going to add anything, you'll know if it's safe to add or not. I would do the same a Lynn and wait a week after you move the rock to the tank to let things stabilize. Then check params. If everything is ok at that point I would do a small addition.
Another thing about your plan is that when you begin to add, do it slowly. The original plan kind of looked like when you hit a certain poiny it was ok to go ahead and add all your fish. That isn't the case. When you add livestock do it gradually. It takes some time after the addition for the bacteria to adjust to the increase in bio load. |
Do you have to add
corals slowly as well? The original plan has me adding almost all my corals on the same day. After the last few disasters I'm wondering if that's a good idea. If something went wrong it could be VERY expensive and cruel.
Second question, you are supposed to add fish slowly, but some species (Blue/Green Chromis) suggest you add six (6) all at the same time because they
school and it's better to add them all at once to avoid hostility. Wouldn't that be the same as adding two many at once? I'm so nervous now I don't want to add more than one tiny fish at a time and maybe an invert or two at a time. Thank goodness I didn't lose any livestock in all these messes so far.
Third question: If your tank is clean of algae and you just set it up and cycled wouldn't the
CUC starve if you added them before any fish or corals? Or is there microscopic life they can eat? Or do you feed them? My original plan has me adding the large clean up crew before corals or fish but I have never had an algae problem in all the years I've had the tank. Very very little algae on the tank walls that is easily removed by only a few snails.
PS Guess how many fish my LFS said I could add at once in my 72 gal. and not affect the bioload?
15!
