Have a Reefer 425 that has been up for about 5 months. It has had a single clownfish in it for about 8 weeks now.
I have bought 2 grammas and couple chromis, none have made it.
Ammonia, Nitrite undetectable. Nitrate 15 or so. (hard for me to see the pink on the red Sea test).. pH is steady 8.1 according to my Apex. Salinity 1.025, also steady according to my Apex.
Tank uses RO/DI from a brand new 4 stage. Acclimation is as follows. Float fiwh, empty water and fish into bucket. Bucket is only used for new saltwater otherwise. Drip acclimate until volume doubles, than empty half and do it again. Tyiicall somewhere around 90 mins. Match temp and salinity as much as possible, almost always works out to be pretty close.
Tank was cycled completely back in September using Dr. Tim's fishless method. Clown went in fine and has done well. Has a couple LPS that have grown a bit in the tank. But other than my clown, I cannot keep a fish alive. I'm fairly certain he isn't bullying fish, but I can't be 100% sure. I've never seen him aggressively go for fish. I'm not sure if it's my LFS, or what.. any advice would be great. Thank you!
Oh and FWIW, I had my LFS test as well before I took home a gramma a couple weeks ago. Everything tested okay..
I have bought 2 grammas and couple chromis, none have made it.
Ammonia, Nitrite undetectable. Nitrate 15 or so. (hard for me to see the pink on the red Sea test).. pH is steady 8.1 according to my Apex. Salinity 1.025, also steady according to my Apex.
Tank uses RO/DI from a brand new 4 stage. Acclimation is as follows. Float fiwh, empty water and fish into bucket. Bucket is only used for new saltwater otherwise. Drip acclimate until volume doubles, than empty half and do it again. Tyiicall somewhere around 90 mins. Match temp and salinity as much as possible, almost always works out to be pretty close.
Tank was cycled completely back in September using Dr. Tim's fishless method. Clown went in fine and has done well. Has a couple LPS that have grown a bit in the tank. But other than my clown, I cannot keep a fish alive. I'm fairly certain he isn't bullying fish, but I can't be 100% sure. I've never seen him aggressively go for fish. I'm not sure if it's my LFS, or what.. any advice would be great. Thank you!
Oh and FWIW, I had my LFS test as well before I took home a gramma a couple weeks ago. Everything tested okay..