55 gallon

ph 8.4 ppm
amonnia 4.0 ppm
nitrate 4.0 ppm
nitrite 0 ppm

 

Chiming in...

A 5 gallon fuge will and will not work. For the purpose of reducing your levels of nitrite/nitrate it works to a certain degree. Meaning...It's better than nothing.

But in my experiences, water evaporation and power outages will play key roles in making your reef experiences a little bit harder with a 5 gal. I had to manually top my 5.5 gal everyday with water. And if there's a power outage, depending on the setup of how your fuge drains and returns water, you're looking at an additional carpet cleaning bill. Needless to say, my 5.5 turned into a 30 gal soon after.

If it's chaeto you really want though, there are threads around here that show you how to take the ghetto-fabulous approach and use a suction-cupped kitchen sponge holder to hold the macro in their display. That should hold you over until your fuge plans become solid.

Best wishes in all your reefing endeavors dude.

 

i bought 2 clowns and there happfuly hosting the power head i neamed them bozo bobo bozo is the one with the incomplet stripe and bobo is the small one with a back dorsal fin ones bigger then the oter and inthins case bozo is most likely gonna turn into a girl if not already

 

You need to take the clowns back asap. Please, if your going to ask for advice, do not throw it out the window. As said before, you are going to need at least 40 more pounds of rock. If you want to save a little, order up base rock, it will become live by the time the cycle is complete anyways. Then you have to let that cycle. The cycle will last 4-12 weeks. If the tank wasnt filled until 12/16, it should have been probably a good couple of weeks after new years until you added fish. And, that would be assuming you had gotten everything else in order.
Get the clowns out, and get your rock and flow issues addressed. Then, let it sit and cycle.While this is going on you should also NOT be running the skimmer OR filters.

 

clowns are going back 2 maro

 

ok the clowns are back at the lfs. and apperntly i didnt have enought bio filtration so i bought a eheim ecco 2236 and has tons of bio midia that look like coco puffs

 

the tank is doing well
ammonia 0
nitrites 0
nitrates 3ppm

 

good size tank you got there here is my 55

 

I would wait another week or two at least before adding anything. If you had 2ppm ammonia about a week ago you may still be cycling. Take it slow, don't rush.

 

i have the api test kits