Court_Appointed_Hypeman
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My 86 gal system (75g display) is now cycled, and I was wondering if thats safe enough to add 2 clowns and a skunk cleaner shrimp.
Adding fish to cycled aquarium
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Rmckoy
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Congratulations and you’re officially ready to slowly start adding livestock .
Start with the few clowns and let everything adjust .
personally I would wait for the shrimp but that’s entirely your decision , it shouldn’t effect anything in a negative way
Start with the few clowns and let everything adjust .
personally I would wait for the shrimp but that’s entirely your decision , it shouldn’t effect anything in a negative way
What regulates your fish addition rate is your disease prevention plan, if you don't have one it does not matter how slowly you add new fish/arbitrary wait times. Any hinting that a cycle can be disrupted by adding too many fish too quickly is old cycling science / biofilters don't break like that.
disease forum procedures are specific/a counted number of days to X action and you can research behavioral interactions between species during prep time
your biofilter isn't the risk, your tank processes ammonia just fine if you add fish or not
(I have links of full reefs with ten fish, anemones and corals carried day one)
Nobody has ever added fish to a display reef and crashed the biofilter, but they've brought in brooklynella that's for sure.
if you have no fish disease prevention plan that comes from Jays disease forum, which sets your stocking rates with precision quarantine and observation timing, nothing you do is going to prevent you having some form of fish loss within eight months. that's if you believe the data from the disease forum, I do.
disease forum procedures are specific/a counted number of days to X action and you can research behavioral interactions between species during prep time
your biofilter isn't the risk, your tank processes ammonia just fine if you add fish or not
(I have links of full reefs with ten fish, anemones and corals carried day one)
Nobody has ever added fish to a display reef and crashed the biofilter, but they've brought in brooklynella that's for sure.
if you have no fish disease prevention plan that comes from Jays disease forum, which sets your stocking rates with precision quarantine and observation timing, nothing you do is going to prevent you having some form of fish loss within eight months. that's if you believe the data from the disease forum, I do.
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