Fish only 55 gallon

[clownfishlord18]

I have a 55 gallon long with a canister filter. Inside the tank I have 3 clown fish, a six line wrasse, a pintail wrasse, a bang eye cardinal, and a pajama cardinal. I also have 20+ nassarius snails, a sea hare, and a turbo snail. If you have any advice please fill free to share.

 

[Crustaceon]

Don't run a canister filter and instead, use enough rock & sand to have a good amount of surface area for denitrifying bacteria to inhabit and get onto a routine of doing weekly (or every other week) 5-10% water changes using reverse osmosis water either from your local fish store or from a dedicated "rodi" system and the basic "blue label" instant ocean salt or similar non-reef focused salt mix. Make sure to siphon at least half of your sand bed each time. = Easy mode.

 

[clownfishlord18]

Don't run a canister filter and instead, use enough rock & sand to have a good amount of surface area for denitrifying bacteria to inhabit and get onto a routine of doing weekly (or every other week) 5-10% water changes using reverse osmosis water either from your local fish store or from a dedicated "rodi" system and the basic "blue label" instant ocean salt or similar non-reef focused salt mix. Make sure to siphon at least half of your sand bed each time. = Easy mode.

Thank you I have about 70 pounds of rock and 60 pounds of sand just got Aqua life RODI system and do a 10 water change every Saturday.

 

[Crustaceon]

Thank you I have about 70 pounds of rock and 60 pounds of sand just got Aqua life RODI system and do a 10 water change every Saturday.

Very nice. Make sure to keep an eye on nitrate levels. I'll bet in the long run, you'll only have to do a weekly 5g water change, which will make maintenance really easy and keep you out of "dino territory". I'd be happy with nitrates in the 5-10ppm range. Any lower isn't worth the trouble IMO.

 

[clownfishlord18]

My nitrites stay at 4-6 ppm thank you for the advice.