HappyGeorge
Fish Herder
I have my 20G set up substrate in, temp stable, pumps and powerheads running, salinity sorted. All seems to be fine took water sample to LFS for testing and told all ok and picked up 5kg of Live Rock. Of the rock I bought 4kg of Fiji came out of the beautiful reef display tank in the shop which is currently being broken to make way for a cichlid tank it is very very porous amazingly lightweight.
So of the total rock in my tank approx 30-40% of the total surface area is covered with pink and purple coralline, it seems to be covered in feather dusters and other bits and pieces. The rest of the rock is 4 pieces of clean ocean rock and a small rock which came from the LFS cured live rock tank. This has now been running for a week am I likely to get any change in parameters given that the vast majority of my live rock has come from a clean, mature tank?
Question is at what point should I look at adding the next thing and what? I am keen to find a CUC of snails, shrimp and an emerald crab (I know about crabs killing snails) and possibly a hermit or 2 but finding Kent a bit of a desert for them all. I also would like to add fish at some point looking at Emperor Cardinal, Chromis, Pseudochromis and a pair of clowns (not all at once obviously).
Should I look at a fish or maybe the pair of clowns as the next step, I am in no hurry but if it's safe I would rather have a tank with a pair of clowns in the corner of the living room for the Christmas period. Although just letting people stare at it for hours while I lie to them about all the wonderful things they might see if they keep looking is very tempting.
So of the total rock in my tank approx 30-40% of the total surface area is covered with pink and purple coralline, it seems to be covered in feather dusters and other bits and pieces. The rest of the rock is 4 pieces of clean ocean rock and a small rock which came from the LFS cured live rock tank. This has now been running for a week am I likely to get any change in parameters given that the vast majority of my live rock has come from a clean, mature tank?
Question is at what point should I look at adding the next thing and what? I am keen to find a CUC of snails, shrimp and an emerald crab (I know about crabs killing snails) and possibly a hermit or 2 but finding Kent a bit of a desert for them all. I also would like to add fish at some point looking at Emperor Cardinal, Chromis, Pseudochromis and a pair of clowns (not all at once obviously).
Should I look at a fish or maybe the pair of clowns as the next step, I am in no hurry but if it's safe I would rather have a tank with a pair of clowns in the corner of the living room for the Christmas period. Although just letting people stare at it for hours while I lie to them about all the wonderful things they might see if they keep looking is very tempting.