My system has been up and running since early April, so about four months. I’ll be adding my last four fish next week. I’ve also introduces snails (20) about a week ago. I had my initial diatom bloom two weeks back, but it’s almost completely gone Now. Snails are doing a great job of cleaning up the rocks.
I have not introduced any crabs yet. I figure I’ll bump up my feeding next week with the new fish and thinking I need crabs now to help keep the place clean. Is this about the correct time to bring some in? Also, which ones would be best and how many?
DT is 167 gallons. Total fish will be 14. Four tangs, two angels, two clowns and 6 chromis. I want to start adding corals in late September. mostly SPS.
Current parameters are:
Temp 78
salinity 34.6
PH. 8.0
Alk. 9.8
NO3. 7.8
PO4. 0.05
I have not started testing Cal and Mag yet. Waiting till the corals start coming in.
I’ve still got the lights fairly low and mostly blue. Greens, reds and whites are below 7%. First pic is lights on and second is with a flash. The red rock is not coralline algae. It’s CaribSea rock. Only coralline in the tank is what came in with the snails.
So Crabs. What kind and how many?
Jetson
I have not introduced any crabs yet. I figure I’ll bump up my feeding next week with the new fish and thinking I need crabs now to help keep the place clean. Is this about the correct time to bring some in? Also, which ones would be best and how many?
DT is 167 gallons. Total fish will be 14. Four tangs, two angels, two clowns and 6 chromis. I want to start adding corals in late September. mostly SPS.
Current parameters are:
Temp 78
salinity 34.6
PH. 8.0
Alk. 9.8
NO3. 7.8
PO4. 0.05
I have not started testing Cal and Mag yet. Waiting till the corals start coming in.
I’ve still got the lights fairly low and mostly blue. Greens, reds and whites are below 7%. First pic is lights on and second is with a flash. The red rock is not coralline algae. It’s CaribSea rock. Only coralline in the tank is what came in with the snails.
So Crabs. What kind and how many?
Jetson