feeding my corals

[SLAMJAMCOHEN]

Can someine help me im new to a reef tank.
I have a 30 gal tank that has been cycled about 2 months with about 50 pounds of live rock. I have a yellow tang and a naso tang.

I have a feather duster and i recently purchased a coral that looks like a carpet. Sorry I dont know what its called. Although I will try to explain. It is purple in color and it has little hair looking carpet all over it. When touched all the coral goes inside the rock.

Anyway I was told to buy phytoplex and liquid calcium to add to the tank for food. Phytoplex 3x a week and calcium one a day. Is this recomended? will this hurt my tank, since it is only 30 gal?

Please advise....

Thank You,

Sam

 

[blout]

Can someine help me im new to a reef tank.
I have a 30 gal tank that has been cycled about 2 months with about 50 pounds of live rock. I have a yellow tang and a naso tang.

Hi sam i just have to mention that 2 tangs in a 30 gallon is a big no no the yellow tang needs a minimum of 100 gallon and the naso even more as they will get stressed and die fromwhite spot or stress.


i use phytoplex and cyclopeeze and that seems to work for my corals

 

[Ed4567]

dosing calcium is probably unnessassary, and is dangerous unless you are testing calcium/ alkalinity and magnesium and understand how these are connected.

 

[Navarre]

I just use Live phyton plankton and cyclopeze for corals. Mostly Cyclopeze but if you can get hold of Live phyto then it really does bring the tank to life.

And Blout is right, those tangs are in a tank that is whoafully inadequate for them. minimum sizer tanks for 1 tang is 100 gallons. I have 1 purple tang in my 100 gallon system... i added 2 other tangs.. achilles and a powder blue.. result.. 2 dead tangs and nearly lost the 3rd.
They grow HUGE and need enormous swimming space as they do not use the reef like dwarf angels do by swimming in and out of liverock for shelter with small territories. Tang are open water reef swimmers that swim for miles each day, their teritories are huge.

I have given this advise on here and other forums many times before so its up to you what you do with them but the outcome is normally always the same.. they are easily stressed, they catch whitespot and kill everything in the tank from this outbreak.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but your lfs should have declined to sell you these fish (if they knew what size setup you have) as they are definately not fish for small tanks. )

 

[SLAMJAMCOHEN]

thanks very much guys for the comments. When I asked the fish store they said it would be fine for them to live in a 30 gallon tank. I guess I will never ask for there advise again. What do you suggest I do now? The fish store will never take them back.......

 

[J-Money]

they won't at least let you trade them in for something else? If not, is there any LFS's in the area? Hit them up for a trade-in

 

[Salt Freak]

I use zooplanktone suck it up in ayringe and inject around the corals. the fish love it to.