What else should I test before adding some cuc?

[Matt Miller]

I'm going to grab a couple small snails tomorrow and possibly a shrimp, maybe fire or something similar. I've completed my cycle and haven't tested anything else yet.

Ammonia is 0 and nitrates are 5-10, salinity 1.026.

Is there anything else shrimp are extra sensitive to? Or should I take a water sample in to lfs and have them check?

Or should I skip the shrimp idea this early?

Nothingbim the tank right now

 

[Reef.]

Should be fine, as long as you do a slow drip acclimation and I do mean slow, then remember to float the container to bring back to temp that they are in afterwards it should be fine.

 

[Reef.]

Oh and remember to feed the shrimp, they are hungry things, probably won’t be enough food for it, so spot feed it and he’ll love you.

 

[Matt Miller]

Should be fine, as long as you do a slow drip acclimation and I do mean slow, then remember to float the container to bring bad to temp that they are in afterwards it should be fine.

I've never had much luck with shrimp and I'm getting anxious to get some life in this tank.

I should find out next week when to expect my clowns, and they will be going into the QT when they get here.

 

[Hugh Mann]

Should be fine, as long as you do a slow drip acclimation and I do mean slow, then remember to float the container to bring back to temp that they are in afterwards it should be fine.

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Make sure your salt contains iodine or be prepared to dose it. They don't need much, but they need it for molting. Or so I have read, I don't keep shrimp because of eel reasons.

 

[Matt Miller]

Oh and remember to feed the shrimp, they are hungry things, probably won’t be enough food for it, so spot feed it and he’ll love you.

I've got pellets and flake food, should I get something else?

 

[Matt Miller]

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Make sure your salt contains iodine or be prepared to dose it. They don't need much, but they need it for molting. Or so I have read, I don't keep shrimp because of eel reasons.

I'm not sure about iodine, I buy premixed from my lfs and their shrimp always look pretty healthy.

 

[Reef.]

I've got pellets and flake food, should I get something else?

I feed mine raw octopus, raw clams on the half shell, squid and he picks up any frozen I feed the fish.

Just buy from your local fish shop, chop up and freeze the pieces then defrost in some rodi water before feeding. Works out cheaper than pellets, the frozen lasts for ages and is cheap.

He’ll eat the pellets most likely but with yours being a new tank I would not feed pellets when frozen is a good option as pellets have a lot of nitrates and PO4, frozen also tends to go over the over flow whereas pellets sit on the sand.

if you feed your fish pellets the cleaner will pick up the ones on the sand bed, so not sure I would be adding more for him.

As for iodine, I don’t add it, my water changes keeps up with that and he sheds fine.