Im new to the hobby but i know the basics, have a 55 gallon tank, with 55 pounds of live rock, been cycling my tank for a little over a month now, 5 weeks to be exact, i learned the hard way, by taking advice from one of my local pet stores telling me it was ok to add fish after 10 days of the water being in the tank, i did so, threw out that 10 days though, all my levels were good, ammonia 0 nitrite 0, and nitrates where my only issue which sat at about 40 but now i have them down to 10 or less, for my first fish i added 2 clowns and a neon goby, there seemed fine, after about a week, they bothed spot eating and one of them starting showing white stuff on his body, i showed alot of people, nobody said it was ich or blockynella, but maybe a funcus infection, so i toke out the fish and gave them to a friend so he could take care of them, so now people have told me to be safe wait at least 5 to 8 weeks before adding anymore fish to your tank, its been almost 3 weeks, so i went ahead and bought 2 peppermint shrimps to try and help with hundreds of baby aiptasia which im still not sure if its aiptasia but sure looks like it, the cured live rock i have got from the petstore, and noticed afer a couple of weeks, that i have lots of bissle worms and baby turbo snails, anyways, sad news, i woke up this morning and one of my pepper mint shrimps must of got sucked into one of my powerheads cause he was caught in there and half his body was gone, but other one is still doing fine, but hard to tell if hes eating the aiptasia as he hides under rocks mosst the time and is hard to see. But my question is that im looking to add 2 green chromis within the next few weeks, and i just want your information if i should add snails and crabs first or will i be ok to add the chromis and is a 1 gallon ice bucket container big enough to do the drip method?
My tank includes the following, please give any advice of how im doing and anything i should consider down the road.
I have NO SUMP, 2 1150 powerheads, a heater, a hang on the back esshopps psk 100 protein skimmer, 55 pounds of live rock and 2 and half inchs of ive sand. I also do 5 to 10 gallons of water changes each friday and siphon the sand as well and blow rocks off with a turkey baster. Other then that i love my tank and i think it looks good but i always like to here what other people have to say or if they have any advice. I have a hang on the back filter just to run carbon if i ever need too, but i don't ever plan to run carbon unless it is emergency. Also i plan to only have fish only for now, maybe some corals down the road. So thanks in advice with some answers of questions i asked.
My tank includes the following, please give any advice of how im doing and anything i should consider down the road.
I have NO SUMP, 2 1150 powerheads, a heater, a hang on the back esshopps psk 100 protein skimmer, 55 pounds of live rock and 2 and half inchs of ive sand. I also do 5 to 10 gallons of water changes each friday and siphon the sand as well and blow rocks off with a turkey baster. Other then that i love my tank and i think it looks good but i always like to here what other people have to say or if they have any advice. I have a hang on the back filter just to run carbon if i ever need too, but i don't ever plan to run carbon unless it is emergency. Also i plan to only have fish only for now, maybe some corals down the road. So thanks in advice with some answers of questions i asked.
