Hi, new to SW

Hi, im new to keeping fish as this is my first tank i have a CLEAIR 55g tall tank with fluval 300w heater fluval 305 canister filter reef octopus bh-100 skimmer and a 700lph powerhead i only have 6kg of live rock (but getting a lot more soon i eventually want about 20-25kg) about 23-24kg of live sand 2 little common clowns (twedel dee and twedal dum) and 2 horse shoe crabs (dumb and dumber) i got the tank in about end of january beginning of feb so far doing well got some probs with my clowns hopefully they'll be alright hopefully ill eventually have a full reef tank but on very tight budget

anyway best of luck ay lol

 

Welcome and good luck, with the tank, you got any pics?

 

welcome to 3reef!

 

welcome to 3reef

 

Welcome to 3reef

What kind of problems with your clowns?

Cat4wisson

 

welcome to 3 reef

Steve

 

Hi...
Welcome to 3reef.
What's the matter with ur clowns?
Let's see your tank pics

 

hi sorry for the late reply as i been working lots i had a salt spike a little while ago after moving the stuff around in my tank (as i thought a horseshoe crab had died) and over night the salt went from a nice 1.022 to 1.035 which killed my Emperor Anglefish which i was annoyed at but i got the water back to a 1.022 but since then they've just been sitting on the sand and only swim about when all the lights are off but ive brought a uv sterilizer now and the water has got a lot clearer and the clowns look a lot better there swimming around a lot more so hopefully and yea ill try to get the pic up

 

how fast did you change the salinity.. what do you mean by a salt spike? what are you using to replace evaporated water?

 

it went up over night from 1.022 to 1.035 and fresh R/O water so the only thing i can think of that salt settled into the sand from when i first set the tank up and when i was sifting through the sand looking for both horseshoe crabs it mixed up any left over salt that haddnt disvolved proply thats the only thing i can gess that or someone dumped a load of salt in there when i wasnt looking lol oh and i took it down over 3-4 days i brought it down to 1.030 then the next day 1.026 then the next 1.024 then finaly 1.022

p.s. before i had the salt spike i was using a floting hydromiter which probably played its part in it as there inaccuret most of the time i now have a proper refractometer so i get a accuret reading