tom@pur-ee.UUCP (12/03/87)
Well as of Nov. 29 my 10 gallon tank went through nitrification with flying colors! Since then I've added 2 fish and one anemone to the tank along with the clown and damsel that have been in for a few weeks. Things seem to be going very well...so far. The clown and damsel are very small, not much larger than a dime. The anemone is Purple anemone, it also is small, a little larger than a golfball. The other 2 fish I added are a Blue tang and a Coral beauty...yes, these are also small roughly the size of a silver dollar. Since this is all I plan to put in the tank I hope it continues to maintain itself! Actually I hope that the fish etc. grow slow...very slow! (do they???) They all are eating great, infact the tang and coral beauty has viciously attacked a few pieces of romaine lettuce!! One question though, do anemone eat much else besides brine shrimp??? --- *Tom McCain *...!pur-ee!tom
whitling@andromeda.UUCP (12/03/87)
In article <7092@pur-ee.UUCP> tom@pur-ee.UUCP (Tom McCain) writes: > >Well as of Nov. 29 my 10 gallon tank went through nitrification with >flying colors! Since then I've added 2 fish and one anemone to the tank >along with the clown and damsel that have been in for a few weeks. >Things seem to be going very well...so far. [deleted text about fish size] >roughly the size of a silver dollar. Since this is all I plan to put >in the tank I hope it continues to maintain itself! I hope I'm wrong, but I think you have a problem. In the first place, salt-water tanks tend to go through mini-cycles with each new fish added so fish should be added one-at-time to keep the cycle peaks minimal. Since you've added at least 2 fish (no one can tell me whether anemones contribute to the nitrate cycle), the mini-cycle might not be so small. If your local aquarium store provides hospital facilities for marine fish, I would watch the nitrites-nitrates closely and be prepared to relocate the fish at the first sign of distress. Otherwise, pray for good luck. Additionally, 4 fish and an anemone seems like an unusually heavy load for a ten gallon tank. At one time I maintained a 38 gallon marine tank and was told that more that 4 or 5 fish would overload that tank. It might work as long as you never suffer any extended power failures and are absolutely reliable about water changes and such. >--- > >*Tom McCain >*...!pur-ee!tom Donna Whitlinger Rutgers University, Newark, NJ {...}!rutgers!andromeda!whitling