am i ready for clownfish?

[Ro Bow]

Am i ready for clownfish? I have been cycling for a week now, i added fritztyme turbo start as well as ammonia, i have algae growing, i am doing a 20% water change, and i tested yesterday and my parameters are the following:

nitrate - 0
Ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0.5

Also with these parameters could i add coral? I test with red sea

 

[Ro Bow]

bump

 

[Ro Bow]

@Mibu

 

[Goaway]

Hi?

 

[Ro Bow]

Hi?

sorry i tagged you because you helped me a lot on my build thread

 

[Goaway]

Am i ready for clownfish? I have been cycling for a week now, i added fritztyme turbo start as well as ammonia, i have algae growing, i am doing a 20% water change, and i tested yesterday and my parameters are the following:

nitrate - 0
Ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0.5

Also with these parameters could i add coral? I test with red sea

I wouldn't add coral yet. 2 months down the road. Probably. If you want clownfish you can probably safely add a pair.

 

[Goaway]

I don't know what your notepad looks like. I'm pretty nerdy when it comes to my parameters. When I setup my aquariums I would check ammonia, nitrite and nitrates religiously for 2 weeks. Or until I had my ammonia spike.
Once the ammonia spike was gone. I added my fish. With live rock it took 1 week.
Now with corals. I always had a tester in mind. Cheap frags if possible. Zoa or paly, a mushroom - candy cane or trumpet coral. If these started to grow I was ready to move on to my next addition.
This was back in 2006. Things are different now. People say add corals once coraline grows. I still don't follow the rules.

IF you add fish now. Watch for 1 week on ammonia, the moment it starts rising, water change at 25 - 50% depending on the spike. Or return fish

 

[Ro Bow]

I wouldn't add coral yet. 2 months down the road. Probably. If you want clownfish you can probably safely add a pair.

ok. Could i add any other fish, i hear clownfish are very hardy. I want to start with easy fish that wont die. I was thinking either a goby, blenny, hogfish, squirrelfish, etc

 

[Goaway]

Why squirrelfish? Those get huge.

 

[sksouthpaw]

Have you added any source of ammonia to kick off the cycle? I would assume so with algae, however a week seems a bit quick. Also depends on the type of rock used, whether live vs dry. Also did you ever see elevations in the ammonia/nitrite prior to the nitrate?
I have used the turbo starts in the past but still gave my tank roughly a month or so to do its thing.
If you used live rock, added the zyme I think it can probably handle clownfish.
Edit: I also have not yet looked at your build thread so I apologize for any redundancy

 

[Ro Bow]

Have you added any source of ammonia to kick off the cycle? I would assume so with algae, however a week seems a bit quick. Also depends on the type of rock used, whether live vs dry. Also did you ever see elevations in the ammonia/nitrite prior to the nitrate?
I have used the turbo starts in the past but still gave my tank roughly a month or so to do its thing.
If you used live rock, added the zyme I think it can probably handle clownfish.

yes

 

[Goaway]

If you used live rock, added the zyme I think it can probably handle clownfish.

He has this life rock, it's painted with bacteria. I don't understand it. But a lot of people say it's great.

 

[Ro Bow]

He has this life rock, it's painted with bacteria. I don't understand it. But a lot of people say it's great.

with that, the ammonia source, fritzyme, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate, 0.5 nitrtie, and live sand, i should be ok right? Sorry i keep asking questions, i just dont want to kill my fish

 

[Goaway]

This is why when you add the fish, you watch ammonia, there's an ammonia badge. Some say it works. Others don't like it.

 

[KStatefan]

You should look at how you have your build thread badge set up.

 

[sksouthpaw]

He has this life rock, it's painted with bacteria. I don't understand it. But a lot of people say it's great.

Oh yeah Ive seen it online but ive never had any experience with it personally. Luckily my lfs has always had some decent quality live rock that I’ve used for my current and past tanks.

 

[Goaway]

I don't want to try anything new, I'm stubborn. I love my live rock.

 

[sksouthpaw]

yes

I think youd be ok then but just keep an eye out on the levels, keep some Prime on hand just in case

 

[sksouthpaw]

I don't want to try anything new, I'm stubborn. I love my live rock.

Amen to that!

 

[Goaway]

Don't forget to add pics of the fish you get! I love clowns.

Edit: stay away from midas blenny's. Vicious monsters.