Mating a pair of Buck Clownfish (1 Viewer)
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It is normal for newly transferred fish not to eat for a few days. They are worried about being eaten. Just cover your overflow teeth with plastic mesh and they will be fine.
I always bring 3/4 inch as well as 1 1/2 inch fish. The 1 1/2 inch snows were 50$. People can make there up there own mind. Most people want smaller fish. I hear " Iv had them since they were babies" all the time. Baby pictures are great. Aggression is normal. The aggressor will be your female. Do not confine them. And they will be great. Feed em rods food,TDO c1,or spectrum grow 1/2 mill. Enjoy. Mitch , Booyah
I always bring 3/4 inch as well as 1 1/2 inch fish. The 1 1/2 inch snows were 50$. People can make there up there own mind. Most people want smaller fish. I hear " Iv had them since they were babies" all the time. Baby pictures are great. Aggression is normal. The aggressor will be your female. Do not confine them. And they will be great. Feed em rods food,TDO c1,or spectrum grow 1/2 mill. Enjoy. Mitch , Booyah
Just fed the tank the home made fish food we made at the Discovery Aquatics party. They loved all the smaller particles :beerchug:
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I think the problem is that I am having a good sized cycle after siphoning my sandbed while doing a wc before the swap. It ha been hard on the fish and corals but I am doing my best. I'm letting the tank he and not moving any more rocks or stirring the sand for as long as I have this tank. This cycle is bigger then my original cycle and I'm confused as to why. But reguardless today I believe I hit my peak (4.0) ouch! 
:eek2::brick::brick:But I have been doing emergency doses of prime as well as adding other things to help notifying bacteria reproduce. Everything else in the tank is fine besides nitrates are a little high this is the biggest crisis I have ever had and I feel so helpless!! I have been doing large waterchanges to bring it back down and plan on doing one tomarrow. I can't believe I didn't know this was going to happen!:doh::brick:
:eek2::brick::brick:But I have been doing emergency doses of prime as well as adding other things to help notifying bacteria reproduce. Everything else in the tank is fine besides nitrates are a little high this is the biggest crisis I have ever had and I feel so helpless!! I have been doing large waterchanges to bring it back down and plan on doing one tomarrow. I can't believe I didn't know this was going to happen!:doh::brick:
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For the 20 gallon I only had about 5 pounds of lr that I took out and added to the 75 like said before but today I will be getting 15 pounds from sw empire. Could not enough lr cause high nitrates? Also is it true high nitrates don't affect fish as much as ammonias?
The cycles goes ammonia to nitrites, then nitrites to nitrates. Nitrates is harmless to fish. The ammonia and nitrites however are deadly. siponing a shallow substrate should not cause a tank to recycle as the bacteria should remain on the substrate. Now if this was an established deep sand bed and you disturb it that could be trouble. You may have been premature in thinking your tank was really cycled.
In most all tanks with just Liverock nitrates will accumulate. The reason, is there is lots of aerobic areas for the bacteria that process ammonia & nitrite. For nitrate it requires lots of anerobic zone. Usually Liverock alone will not provide enought anerobic. This is where deep sand beds and many other methods are required to control nitrates. So regardless if you have 5 lbs or 20 lbs, it will likely not solve the nitrates. On small tanks, larger water changes are probably as good as any solution. Larger tanks where it no longer becomes economical you need to find other methods for denitrification.
In most all tanks with just Liverock nitrates will accumulate. The reason, is there is lots of aerobic areas for the bacteria that process ammonia & nitrite. For nitrate it requires lots of anerobic zone. Usually Liverock alone will not provide enought anerobic. This is where deep sand beds and many other methods are required to control nitrates. So regardless if you have 5 lbs or 20 lbs, it will likely not solve the nitrates. On small tanks, larger water changes are probably as good as any solution. Larger tanks where it no longer becomes economical you need to find other methods for denitrification.
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I guess I do not know how deep your sand bed was so I am winging it here, but the norm is you never disturb the sand bed because there are not only anaerobic zones within the bed removing nitrates, but also a lot of trapped PO4. If you have always siphoned your bed then it is no problem since those zones would have never developed and you are removing the detritus before it breaks down. But if the sand has been sitting undisturbed for a few months you are going to start a cycle if you start stirring it up. I am guessing that is what you are experiencing now. If that is the case you're going to have to do a lot of water changes and keep up with your testing of ammonia and nitrites.
That's the wildcard. I would assume though that we are talking about 1mm+ in grain size substrate becuase it isn't even practical to siphon sugar sized as it will just get sucked up. It would have to be 5-6" or deeper for siphoning large grain size to be of concern.