Hello all, have enjoyed the advice you have given in the past.
I now have a 20g saltwater tank set up with 20 pounds of live rock and 4 ocellaris clownfish. I had planned for two, but the store happened to offer the other two free along with the first two because they are removing their saltwater section. A few questions:
1.) Four clowns in 20 gallons... will this be too much to sustain? I don't plan on adding any more livestock. I have two snails and a crab in there as well.
2.) What should I be testing and how often? Right now, I test everything occasionally just because I do not know how often. I use strips for ammonia and ph and test a few times a week when I think about it, but not sure how fast or slow these might change? I use a cheap plastic gauge for testing salinity.
Now that my tank is set up and seems fine (fish are eating, 0 ammonia, 2.21 salinity) please let me know tips for sustaining this. For a 20 gallon, how often should certain things be tested? How often (and how much) should water be changed? And how important would it be to now invest in a more accurate salinity reader?
Any advice about any of this (or anything I didn't mention) is welcomed... thanks!
I now have a 20g saltwater tank set up with 20 pounds of live rock and 4 ocellaris clownfish. I had planned for two, but the store happened to offer the other two free along with the first two because they are removing their saltwater section. A few questions:
1.) Four clowns in 20 gallons... will this be too much to sustain? I don't plan on adding any more livestock. I have two snails and a crab in there as well.
2.) What should I be testing and how often? Right now, I test everything occasionally just because I do not know how often. I use strips for ammonia and ph and test a few times a week when I think about it, but not sure how fast or slow these might change? I use a cheap plastic gauge for testing salinity.
Now that my tank is set up and seems fine (fish are eating, 0 ammonia, 2.21 salinity) please let me know tips for sustaining this. For a 20 gallon, how often should certain things be tested? How often (and how much) should water be changed? And how important would it be to now invest in a more accurate salinity reader?
Any advice about any of this (or anything I didn't mention) is welcomed... thanks!