mr_X
Aquarium Advice Addict
It helps, but it's not the magical cure. You need to do your part also.
Sorry about the hob refugium. Refugium s in general.
What he meant was that using a 6" x 3" HOB filter turned into a refugium on the back of a 75 gallon tank is a waste of time. You need to size it to your tank. The larger the mass of algae, the more nutrients it uses.
People test there water and see they have high nitrates and look for a fast way to bring them down. They think a refugium will help but it won't fix the problem. Macro algae can only remove so much at once, so if nutrients are produced faster than the macro can consume (which is usually what happens) people either see no change at all or very little in their test results.
I have a 56 gallon tank and In my opinion live rock for your clown fish would thrive better with live rock, a couple power heads a heater, some lighting and either a protein skimmer and a heater. A lot of times the clown fish will eat some algae off of the live rock. When going from a fresh water tank to a saltwater tank it is best to do your homework as you also have many testing kits you need to use to make sure your saltwater is within the limits of what a saltwater tank consist off. It is not as easy as you think.
Eileen_1510
I removed the Nasarius snail. It looked a bit awful. It is no longer with us.
Everything else seems okay and I plan to add a fish this weekend. Are there any numbers I should check other than pH, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate before adding fish? All those numbers are good right now.