Evolve 4 Nano Reef. New light NEW PICS! Awesome!

Its a 4 gallon. I was thinking a clown or mabey firefish! And mabey blue legged hermit crab or 2. The ones that stay small

 

day 2:
the water parameters are as follows
Ammonia: .5ppm
PH:7.8
Alkalinity:150ppm
Nitrite:0ppm
Nitrate:0ppm


hopefully the nitrites will raise and the nitrates kick in depleating the nitrites so i can add stuff!

 

Ammonia will progressively rise pretty high then bacteria will kick in and all is well

 

Ya i just hate the waiting part of cycling!

 

a 4 gallon is too small for a clown. A Firefish would probably be ok or look into a goby. Very high in personality and cool to watch

 

+1 to zoas and the candycane. Personally i'm loving the candy cane i just got, kicking myself for not getting one sooner, adds so much color to the tank. Could also do a closed brain frag of some type too. either way, probably won't be long till you're feeling the itch to upgrade to a larger tank

 

if you like movement frogspawn/hammers are cool but they can get large when open. Decisions decisions...

 

tip on the corals, try to find a local reefer you can purchase/trade frags from... waaaay cheaper than a store typically.

 

ya the stores around here arnt bad i can get good sized peices for 10-20 bucks here!

day 3 test
Ammonia:0ppm
PH:7.8
Alkalinity:180ppm
Nitrite:0ppm
Nitrate:20ppm

is this good and mean its cycled yet?

saw some nice xinia and zoas that were nice priced and good looking!

and tom i already with i woulda went with a 10 gallon or something but with college coming up 10 might be to much!

 

Put a small pinch of dried fish food in.

If no ammonia in 2 days, then I would do a small water change and add a hermit or two.


Nothing good happens fast in this hobby Just go slow otherwise you might end up with a sick fish.

If you are really itching to get something start with an easy and cheap soft coral.

Always feed sparingly until the tanks biological filter can catch up with the addition of new live stock (fish/hermits).