New 4g work desk tank

[dingusplease]

Ammonia-0
Nitrite-5.0
Nitrate-5.0

Coming along nicely, sounds like your trites should be down soon.

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Yeah Saturday went and picked up a couple more small live rocks, about a pound, to help jump start the cycle and it looks to be working

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Dosed ammonia back to 4ppm yesterday today back at 0ppm
Trite >5ppm
Trate 5ppm

 

[dingusplease]

Dosed ammonia back to 4ppm yesterday today back at 0ppm
Trite >5ppm
Trate 5ppm

Sounds good! Do you already know what the first livestock will be?

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Thinking about yasha goby as the only fish not a positive. Def going to have sexy shrimp and pompom crabs so maybe no goby

 

[dingusplease]

I would recommend against a yasha, as they can get 3inches+, and would end being stressed and/or too much bio load. If you really want a fish a clown goby might work. That's what I have in the 3g.

 

[dingusplease]

And sexy shrimp are always great for tanks this size

 

[dingusplease]

Edit: sorry I forgot you have an LFS along with this tank haha. In that case a yasha would fine if you just keep it in the 4g until it gets too big, then moved it to a bigger tank.

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Haha yeah I do. I'm 50/50 on any fish at the moment. I have never had luck with the painted/green clown gobies none of my lfs seem to get very healthy ones. I do like them though

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

And I thought the yasha was one of the smaller ray gobies that only got to about 2-2.5 inches

 

[dingusplease]

And I thought the yasha was one of the smaller ray gobies that only got to about 2-2.5 inches

The max I've seen is around 3", but 2" is still pretty big for a 4g.

Honestly, I think it would be pretty sweet to have an invert only tank, there are so many possibilities...

Or maybe you should just get a few derasas and a clown tang

 

[bribo12]

Lol only full grown deresa a though! I agree a 2" goby would still be a tad to big for this size tank. Just keep it inverts

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Yeah was pretty sure that's what the plan is going to be

 

[dingusplease]

Any updates? Stocking yet? Looking forward

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Picked up a pompom and a tiny cleaner shrimp yesterday. Keeping them in my 4g at home till I'm sure this one is ready.

 

[dingusplease]

Picked up a pompom and a tiny cleaner shrimp yesterday. Keeping them in my 4g at home till I'm sure this one is ready.

Nice! Do you mean you're keeping them in a different tank until you're sure the 4 is ready?

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Yeah I have a 4g at the house with just pods and cheato kind of a refugium that's not connected to any other system

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

You know at the aquarium store I have at my house haha

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Just tested
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-40-80ppm
Getting ready to do a water change and bring my other test kits with me to work tomorrow to make sure all parameters are perfect and then to start stocking this bad boy

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

Ready to go!