Stock help

Barb0713 · Apr 24, 2025

Barb0713 said:
I have bigger tanks. I’m starting this 20 gallon to seed my 75 .right now all I have in there is 2 tiny clowns 1 chrome and a watchman.. I had a fully stocked 75 with fish and coral. Did great for a long time. Then crashed on my birthday when one took over and poisoned everything dead. :( 1,000’s down the drain. Anyway. , i don’t plan on anything in this tank being long term

Don’t know why that posted twice.

Cheese Griller · Apr 24, 2025

Barb0713 said:
I ended up taking out 3 of the cromes. I’m gna replace them with 1 pink streaked wrasse :) thanks guys

Nice!! How soon are the fish going in the 75? I would be hesitant to keep that many fish in a 20 for more than a couple months

Barb0713 · Apr 25, 2025

Cheese Griller said:
Nice!! How soon are the fish going in the 75? I would be hesitant to keep that many fish in a 20 for more than a couple months

It might take me a few months to get the other tank up and running. It current has an African sideneck turtle in it. That is getting refined and the tank (although keep clean ) is gna need extensive cleaning, before I can set it up for saltwater. Anyway, seeing as I have already removed 3 of the chromis. (Returned them to the LPS ( we have an ongoing trade system lol). My question now is ,,,,, will my corals be affected by the sudden removal of that extra bioload? Should I add some seachem stability to combat that ? My nitrates and phosphates are readable , but, very low. (That was with all the fish ) so now I will just have to feed the coral a little more ? Everything has been very happy. I am going to possibly remove the last chromie as well. ( that would leave only the 2 small clowns and the watchman goby.) I have been doing very frequent, very small water changes to combat algae , but that is working well. (Along with my awesome CUC. I’m just wondering if the removing those 3 fish (changing the chemistry abruptly like that ) will cause any problems ? Thanks for your engagement and advice. Being a self taught marine biologist is hard work

Cheese Griller · Apr 25, 2025

Barb0713 said:
It might take me a few months to get the other tank up and running. It current has an African sideneck turtle in it. That is getting refined and the tank (although keep clean ) is gna need extensive cleaning, before I can set it up for saltwater. Anyway, seeing as I have already removed 3 of the chromis. (Returned them to the LPS ( we have an ongoing trade system lol). My question now is ,,,,, will my corals be affected by the sudden removal of that extra bioload? Should I add some seachem stability to combat that ? My nitrates and phosphates are readable , but, very low. (That was with all the fish ) so now I will just have to feed the coral a little more ? Everything has been very happy. I am going to possibly remove the last chromie as well. ( that would leave only the 2 small clowns and the watchman goby.) I have been doing very frequent, very small water changes to combat algae , but that is working well. (Along with my awesome CUC. I’m just wondering if the removing those 3 fish (changing the chemistry abruptly like that ) will cause any problems ? Thanks for your engagement and advice. Being a self taught marine biologist is hard work

I would hesitate to add a chemical to combat a natural removal of fish, I like your solution of feeding the coral a little more. Chasing exact numbers isn't the way to do things IMO, you just want stable params (within an acceptable range ofc). If your corals start to show signs of discomfort I would just ramp up their feeding more.

Barb0713 · Apr 25, 2025

Cheese Griller said:
I would hesitate to add a chemical to combat a natural removal of fish, I like your solution of feeding the coral a little more. Chasing exact numbers isn't the way to do things IMO, you just want stable params (within an acceptable range ofc). If your corals start to show signs of discomfort I would just ramp up their feeding more.

Thank you. I’ve only had the Duncan for 2 weeks and I feed some coral gumbo once and it ate that up.