Fishman007
Aquarium Advice Addict
What size tank is this?
I'm not 100% sure what size my tank is. I'm guessing between 28 and 30 gal.
If you look at my page it tells the stocking of my tank. In my personal opinion you can stock your tank with whatever, and long as you do it slow enough that you bio load can keep up, and you have the right clean up crew. One thing I forgot to add is never put a sand sifting star in the tank. They eat the inhabitants of the sand bed that you need.
Bio load is one thing but fish stress is a whole different story. Tangs get stressed out in a tank that's too small, that's one thing that can't really be argued against.
Without actively removing contaminants from the aquarium there is more than just nitrates that are found in fish poo. What are you doing to remove any of that? In other words, what goes in must come out. Have you tested the TDS of your water?
Just because your bio-load is low doesnt mean you can keep a big fish with big swimming needs. People are gonna come calling me the tang police but it is not right to stress out a fish in such a small tank. there is no CUC that can eat fish poop, and if there was one then they would also poop. Your logic doesnt make sense.
I agree about the tang, but tube worms do eat fish poop and I can prove it by catching it on a video. I have witnessed it. I do agree that if they too are eating, then they are expelling waist in the process. In the tank I have, it has an over size pump. Nothing sets on the bottom for long. After feeding, when the pump is turned back on, everything is lifted up and pulled through the filter pretty efficiently. What the tank inhabitant dont get the filter does. Now of course I could be lying or just mistaken but my tank is prof. My nitrates are zero, phosphatase are zero, no algae. How can this be. When other clean their sand, and their rock and still have these problems with algae and nitrates, and I don't clean mine, how can you explain this. Let the results tell the truth.
Also, I tried to quote some of the things like you guys are and cant figure out how to do it.
Also, I tried to quote some of the things like you guys are and cant figure out how to do it.