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Reef Discussion => Fish => Topic started by: kent51369 on February 17, 2018, 21:32:05

Title: New to marine tanks
Post by: kent51369 on February 17, 2018, 21:32:05

Thanks for the add to the forum. I have a 46 gallon bow from, non reef tank. Here's my question on my fish. I have:
1 green spotted puffer
1 yellow belly damsel
1 clown
1 six line wrasse
1 engineer goby (i think that's what he's called)
A few larger snails and a hermit crab

Am I maxed out? It looks so empty and I would love a lawnmower blenny and one or two others if it's safe. For those that are experienced in marine tanks, please chime in. Thanks!


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Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: lazylivin on February 17, 2018, 21:50:59

Welcome Kent. You’re not even close to maxed out. I am not sure though in regards to biological support. Share some info such as how much rock you have, how long it has been wet, equipment installed etc... pics would help greatly

Title: New to marine tanks
Post by: kent51369 on February 19, 2018, 19:22:32

Here's my tank. I started to notice pink coralline the past few days also.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180220/1e3d24722848b0eadb496e9654b1773e.jpg)


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Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: kent51369 on February 19, 2018, 19:59:31

Live rock and wet rock (?) For three months. A bag of live sand and the rest is regular sand. I use a 75 gallon hang on filter.


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Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: lazylivin on February 19, 2018, 22:47:38

You can probrably add a couple more small to medium fish with the current setup. An additional 20-30 pounds of a quality porous live rock would help significantly to keeping up with processing fish waste and enable a larger fish/invert population. Browse through the member tank profile threads to get some additional ideas for enhancing the system. We have a couple active bow front threads as well. http://ohioreef.com/index.php?board=8.0
It could be coraline algae however Cyanobacteria is also a possibility. We usually see that first.

Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: kent51369 on February 20, 2018, 08:39:42

Thanks. How does the porous rock help with processing waste?


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Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: lazylivin on February 20, 2018, 16:56:55

Deep inside of the rock is low to no oxygen. This fosters a special type of (anaerobic) bacteria that processes nitrates. Closer to the rock surface is a bacteria that specializes in converting ammonia to nitrites, a little deeper and it has bacteria that converts nitrites to Nitrate and deep in the rock the de-nitrification occurs.

Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: NanoDad on February 21, 2018, 08:16:25

Quote from: Lazylivin on February 20, 2018, 16:56:55

Deep inside of the rock is low to no oxygen. This fosters a special type of (anaerobic) bacteria that processes nitrates. Closer to the rock surface is a bacteria that specializes in converting ammonia to nitrites, a little deeper and it has bacteria that converts nitrites to Nitrate and deep in the rock the de-nitrification occurs.

Mind blown sir  :o

Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: NanoDad on February 21, 2018, 08:17:00

Quote from: kent51369 on February 17, 2018, 21:32:05

Thanks for the add to the forum. I have a 46 gallon bow from, non reef tank. Here's my question on my fish. I have:
1 green spotted puffer
1 yellow belly damsel
1 clown
1 six line wrasse
1 engineer goby (i think that's what he's called)
A few larger snails and a hermit crab

Am I maxed out? It looks so empty and I would love a lawnmower blenny and one or two others if it's safe. For those that are experienced in marine tanks, please chime in. Thanks!
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Sweet!

Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: kent51369 on February 22, 2018, 21:00:38

I just put 20 pounds of additional rock into the tank and put in a lawnmower blenny. He's fun to watch!


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Title: Re: New to marine tanks
Post by: Agame43 on February 22, 2018, 21:54:47

Kent welcome to a rock solid Reef Community!      :Welcome:        :-Thumb