Hi everyone
Hope you can assist me as I am a marine/nano virgin.
I have recently purchased a 45 litre tank which consists of lighting, two fans and I have added a small submerged pump and an external pump with an air stone. For the filtration I have removed all the media with the tank including the bio balls The tank has three chambers to the back of it. In the first chamber I have added cured fuji/figi?? live rock and a layer of filter floss jsut below the water level. The second chamber houses my heater and the third is the powehead/venturi/water return(think thats what you call it). I have 4 kilos of the same rock in the tank with about 1 and a half inches of damned expensive substrate The tank has been cyclin for 2 weeks and I recently checked the nitrites and nitrates which were a bit high. Just to add I have no protein skimmer so I assume its not the berlin system. Would you call it biological filtration?? I also did a 20% water change and the water I have used and been adding is conditioned from my local shop with no chlorine or nitites/nitrates. So really my questions are. Have I got it right with the filtration and the removal of all my media???. Should I add a skimmer or stick with regular partial water changes??? Whats the best way to remove all the crap falling of the live rock onto the substrate or should i leave it??? I also have a little friend which I think is a gorilla crab the size of a thumb nail, should I remove him??? So I am really waitng for the levels to be correct then add some soft corals and guess what, do you have any ideas on what type of corals to keep in such a small tank which are ideal for an idiot like me???? Looking at the movement of the algae/ organisms on the live rock the water flow does seem to be quite strong in areas which i assume is from the submerged pump. Thanks for reading. Berny:Will try to add a picture later.scratchchin:
Hope you can assist me as I am a marine/nano virgin.
I have recently purchased a 45 litre tank which consists of lighting, two fans and I have added a small submerged pump and an external pump with an air stone. For the filtration I have removed all the media with the tank including the bio balls The tank has three chambers to the back of it. In the first chamber I have added cured fuji/figi?? live rock and a layer of filter floss jsut below the water level. The second chamber houses my heater and the third is the powehead/venturi/water return(think thats what you call it). I have 4 kilos of the same rock in the tank with about 1 and a half inches of damned expensive substrate The tank has been cyclin for 2 weeks and I recently checked the nitrites and nitrates which were a bit high. Just to add I have no protein skimmer so I assume its not the berlin system. Would you call it biological filtration?? I also did a 20% water change and the water I have used and been adding is conditioned from my local shop with no chlorine or nitites/nitrates. So really my questions are. Have I got it right with the filtration and the removal of all my media???. Should I add a skimmer or stick with regular partial water changes??? Whats the best way to remove all the crap falling of the live rock onto the substrate or should i leave it??? I also have a little friend which I think is a gorilla crab the size of a thumb nail, should I remove him??? So I am really waitng for the levels to be correct then add some soft corals and guess what, do you have any ideas on what type of corals to keep in such a small tank which are ideal for an idiot like me???? Looking at the movement of the algae/ organisms on the live rock the water flow does seem to be quite strong in areas which i assume is from the submerged pump. Thanks for reading. Berny:Will try to add a picture later.scratchchin:
