46 Gallon Bow Front Set up. First time to salt!

BTW, how often are you supposed to feed your fish? any sugestions would be appreciated.

 

Semper Paratus! I'm RELAD, but my last station was D17 Commcen in Juneau Alaska. Love the Guard. Miss it dearly, still have a few good friends on active. I got out to have a family. Most say feed every 2-3 days and only as much as they can eat in 3 minutes. PE mysis has the most protien of frozen foods although big pieces of shrimp for small fish. I use everything under the sun. Top shelf of freezer is frozen food. Good pellets, good flake is nice to use imo. Although some say the dry stuff leaves some phosphates in the tank. Get your self a nice phosphate reactor and use some Rowa Phos and you can feed a lot more with out problems. That should run ya $150-200 with reactor, pump, tubing, and RowaPhos.

What rate or are you commissioned?

 

imo 3 fish to cycle your tank is way to many.. You are already at half of you total stock you should have in that size tank... Good Luck, Enjoy...

 

Day 3 with salt Day 2 with fish: My Clown fish are happy, they are hanging around on the left side of my tank for some reason, they do venture out from that area but not very often. Hopefully they will get used to their new tank and start to swim around more. My Green Chromis, he is acting a little weird. Yesterday he hung out with the clown pair, but today it has been hard to find him, and he looked like he got stuck in the rockwork at one point. He now hides and when i just found him he was kindof on his side but his fins were moving. Dont know what his issue is but i hope he does better. If anyone has any advice let me know. Params are the same, Temp 78 salinity 1.022 and Ammonia is 0 PPM. Tried the Protein Skimmer today, dont really know how to use it at all, and the instrusctions are vague, i will call the number tomorrow during business hours.

 

I would say have some ammonia reducer and premade salt water handy. Your ammonia is going to spike sooner or later. Theres going to atleast be some die off from the live sand and the bottled bacteria isn't going to soak up all the waste from the fish and clean up crew. I just set up a 56 gallon and used some bottled bacteria, and all dry rock & sand. It still took 2.5 weeks for mine to cycle and that was without any fish. Good looking tank though.

 

Sorry about the Chromis...at least it was cheap! Hey may make it...he could have been stressed by the clowns too, they may have harassed him!

 

i think that maybee they did harass him, he was dead this morning, ah well he was free! i will be sure next time i add a fish, that i add more than one at a time in that species that way they wont get picked on.

 

not necessarily a good idea. It all depends on the fish, for example firefish will usually fight one another to the death unless they become mated.

 

Depends on tank size. I added a purple to my 72 while it already had a red and they barely fight ever. Although they are not pals.

 

I'll be surprised if the clowns live. You are cycling a tank by sacrificing the fish. It would have been better to set up the tank and take a fresh table shrimp (even half of one would do) and throw it in the tank. Let it rot away into nothingness. All the while testing your Ammonia, Nitrites and Nitrates. Once the Ammonia and Nitrites spiked and returned to zero it would be safe to add a fish or two about a week later (just to make sure the Ammonia and Nitrites really were still at zero) after a large water change. Doing it with fish is probably going to cost you all the fish, but you may get lucky. I'm hoping you do.