irishbuffalo
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I just started my first salt water tank about 3 months ago. It is a 20g long. I currently have 25lbs live rock, 15lbs live sand, 2 medium ocellaris clowns, 1 large turbo snail (about 1.5" maybe a little larger) and 1 nassarius snail (big for a nassarius, about 1/2").
I've been doing 4-5g (30% considering water displacement) water changes weekly to keep things diluted in case I make any mistakes. Nitrates seem to be climbing up to around 40ppm by water change day. After the water change it gets between 10 and 15ppm. I tried doing more frequent water changed and got it down to 5ppm but it seems to always eventually creep up.
The only equipment I'm using is an Aqueon Pro 100w heater and two Hydor Koralia Nano 425GPH power heads.
The tank seems to be doing well. I have about a dozen very small feather dusters growing on the back glass. I even have coralline slowly growing on some of the rocks.
I would like it to get under control before I start messing with corals. Any advice?
I've been doing 4-5g (30% considering water displacement) water changes weekly to keep things diluted in case I make any mistakes. Nitrates seem to be climbing up to around 40ppm by water change day. After the water change it gets between 10 and 15ppm. I tried doing more frequent water changed and got it down to 5ppm but it seems to always eventually creep up.
The only equipment I'm using is an Aqueon Pro 100w heater and two Hydor Koralia Nano 425GPH power heads.
The tank seems to be doing well. I have about a dozen very small feather dusters growing on the back glass. I even have coralline slowly growing on some of the rocks.
I would like it to get under control before I start messing with corals. Any advice?