Transitioning from trop

[canisterreef]

Hi, I have just transitioned one of my trop tanks to marine. I have used some previous kit and added new as follows:
120 litre rimless tank 80x45x45cm
Oase biomaster (with prefilter) thermo filled with marine grade bioholm media and marine carbon
Bubble Magnus qq1
Two reefsea led lights
ATO
Dosing machine with zlements all in one
I have a mix of man made rock and live rock (some of which came covered in coralline algae)
Caribsea Aragonite sand
It’s been running for two weeks
I have a lot of experience with high tech co2 injected planted tanks but this is all new to me and most of the rules I know do not apply
Any advice welcome whether it be general about the equipment set and any improvements and/or advice on adding clean up crew before fish
My goal is inverts, coral and small fish population. Heart set on a goby and pistol shrimp paring, a bleny and two clowns. Unsure what else (if anything would work in tank this size)
Appreciate anything you can add comment wise
Ps I can’t add a sump due to location of tank so I am trying the canister and I am used to extreme maintenance from keeping high tech trop so happy to do weekly filter cleaning and water changes etc
Thanks Steve

 

[slythy]

If you are happy to do a canister filter then they work fine. if you get tired of the maintenence you can just get a hang on the back filter instead. You may also want to add a small power head to get some more flow in it if you want to keep corals.

if you are going pistol shrimp and goby make sure your rocks are secure. They have a tendency to excavate so much that things shift and fall.
Just keep on top of water changes and canister maintenance and you should have success!

I always add cleanup crew as soon as my nitrates start to appear. You dont have to go crazy but you want fish/inverts that are going to pick on algae before it becomes a problem. I never really had an ugly phase as my first fish were a white tail tang and a lawnmower blenny with a ton of snails and hermits.

Also welcome!!!

 

[canisterreef]

If you are happy to do a canister filter then they work fine. if you get tired of the maintenence you can just get a hang on the back filter instead. You may also want to add a small power head to get some more flow in it if you want to keep corals.

if you are going pistol shrimp and goby make sure your rocks are secure. They have a tendency to excavate so much that things shift and fall.
Just keep on top of water changes and canister maintenance and you should have success!

I always add cleanup crew as soon as my nitrates start to appear. You dont have to go crazy but you want fish/inverts that are going to pick on algae before it becomes a problem. I never really had an ugly phase as my first fish were a white tail tang and a lawnmower blenny with a ton of snails and hermits.

Also welcome!!!

Thanks for the advice, forgot to mention I have an ai Nero 3 wave maker and the canister has glass lilly pipes, so lilly pipe flow from left and wave maker on right hand side. Will this be ok? I also have a seachem tidal 75 but didn’t add this from old trop set up because I am danger of having all kit no tank. Maybe the tidal would be better than the oase canister?
Testing all main parameters. Was told to do wit until algae before clean up crew is that right? In trop always got them in pretty fast to avoid algae from start. Was wanting hermits and snails but don’t want them to starve so looked at supplementary feeding but it’s a bit contradictory on the web. I have a bottle of colony bacteria but not sure when to add it. In my trop it’s day one but everything I have read for marine says not until adding fish so not sure
Thanks again really appreciate it

 

[slythy]

Add bottled bacteria as soon as salt and temp are at the level you want.

If you keep the lights on the algae will happen fast. You can always feed a little bit of food if no algae is present. I dont think they will starve.

Everyone does their tanks a little different. I did all dead rock, ammonia start. You can havw quicker results if you add cycled live rock like you have and its basically instant cycled. I also added fish within a month as well as coral and cleanup crew.

The way marine and fresh vary is really where the bacteria lives. On fresh your sponges and bio media in your filters tend to do all the leg work where in salt its 90% sand and rock. We still use some bio media like seachem matrix but its unnecessary.

You can save yourself a lot of troubles and headaches id you keep ontop of your maintenance and do waterchanges.

 

[canisterreef]

Add bottled bacteria as soon as salt and temp are at the level you want.

If you keep the lights on the algae will happen fast. You can always feed a little bit of food if no algae is present. I dont think they will starve.

Everyone does their tanks a little different. I did all dead rock, ammonia start. You can havw quicker results if you add cycled live rock like you have and its basically instant cycled. I also added fish within a month as well as coral and cleanup crew.

The way marine and fresh vary is really where the bacteria lives. On fresh your sponges and bio media in your filters tend to do all the leg work where in salt its 90% sand and rock. We still use some bio media like seachem matrix but its unnecessary.

You can save yourself a lot of troubles and headaches id you keep ontop of your maintenance and do waterchanges.

Thank you that all makes sense. Determined to make this work. Appreciate the advice, it really helps
Regards Steve