How can i improve

[jjjones]

How can i improve this tank set up?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

That's a pretty broad/vague question.
What are your plans/goals for the tank?

 

[Propane]

What makes you think something’s wrong?

 

[wolt]

To fill up some more space if you want to you could move the rock to the right a little and add an island on the left

 

[jjjones]

That's a pretty broad/vague question.
What are your plans/goals for the tank?

To get rid of the algae (more specifically the red bubble algae) and to get more corals and have the corals grow.

 

[Stephen8169301]

Maybe add more dry rock / caves for fish to claim as their territory

 

[jjjones]

What makes you think something’s wrong?

Nothing I just want to improve it. It’s been setup for over a year and I haven’t seen much growth on anything. I watched a video on brstv and they mentioned that they need a lot more flow so that what I did. Also I had changed my lighting about 4 months ago and the seem to be doing much better!

 

[jjjones]

To fill up some more space if you want to you could move the rock to the right a little and add an island on the left

I sure can do that! What corals would you put on the island then?

 

[jjjones]

Maybe add more dry rock / caves for fish to claim as their territory

Alright. What other fish do you think I can put in here? It’s a 10 gallon tank and right now I have a yellow watchman goby and a pistol shrimp

 

[Stephen8169301]

Alright. What other fish do you think I can put in here? It’s a 10 gallon tank and right now I have a yellow watchman goby and a pistol shrimp

Barnacle blenny would be a fun addition and maybe a clown

 

[wolt]

I sure can do that! What corals would you put on the island then?

You could use the island for a garden of some sort like a zoa garden or Euphyllia garden

 

[Propane]

Maybe some snails and copepods when you put more rock in as well.

 

[wolt]

Also adding another fish would benefit the corals too

 

[Clownreef]

Step one:

In complete disagreement with everyone so far..
Improve the living conditions of the current inhabitants before adding anything else.

Could you please post your water parameters please?

 

[Stephen8169301]

Step one:

In complete disagreement with everyone so far..
Improve the living conditions of the current inhabitants before adding anything else.

Could you please post your water parameters please?

What makes it appear to be bad living conditions?

 

[Clownreef]

Inadequate water chemistry to start and unless there’s an RO/DI situation there are probably metals and contaminants in the water.

If that was a dog cage I wouldn’t be suggesting to add more dogs.

 

[Stephen8169301]

To my eyes this tank looks okay no major algae out breaks the hammer is open and happy zoas open and has growth the other coral looks full and not shriveled nothing bleached. to me this tank looks like it’s happy and thriving of life. I would think the chemistry is okay.

for being a year old it’s on the right path

 

[Propane]

Step one:

In complete disagreement with everyone so far..
Improve the living conditions of the current inhabitants before adding anything else.

Could you please post your water parameters please?

Without knowing any of those parameters or knowing about the water used how do you know, visually speaking, that the conditions are bad? This will help me going forward on my own tank.

 

[Clownreef]

For a year old tank it has no coralline algae, there’s some stuff growing on the sand which can indicate high phos/nitrates and lack of flow.

I’d clean it up, check water chemistry.

People focus on “how can I make my tank look amazing” and forget that fish don’t care about what it looks like but what affects them directly. This isn’t rocket science.

 

[Stephen8169301]

For a year old tank it has no coralline algae, there’s some stuff growing on the sand which can indicate high phos/nitrates and lack of flow.

I’d clean it up, check water chemistry.

People focus on “how can I make my tank look amazing” and forget that fish don’t care about what it looks like but what affects them directly. This isn’t rocket science.

coralline algae needs to be seeded in this tank dry rock was used so odds are it will not show until a frag plug snail or live rock gets added to tank for it to be present

the stuff on the sand is probably just a surface algae under that type of lighting hard to tell

they are also asking how to improve the tank not “make it perfect “

everything In This thread are just suggestions on how to improve the tank.