Posted by Buddy on January 21, 2003 at 22:52:41:
In Reply to: Re: sick clownfish posted by efredes on January 20, 2003 at 21:45:38:
Well, first of all, i would never go with an Aquaclear filter, they only give you a carbon filtration, nothing great about them, you need a wet/dry trickle filter filtering no less then 300 gph and have a small powerhead inside the tank for water current. Now just how long this tank setup? from the sound of it, it might not even gone thru its cycle as yet. Understand one thing here, many aquarium stores always misguides people that or trying to do the right thing, now you have live sand, why? its a F/O tank isnt it? Live sand is more used with micro-reef tanks and such. And the other thing is, your sand bed is 4", that to much, you need better pump then what you got if you plan to keep it as you have, and matter fact, get two small powerheads and place them at both sides the tank and at different levels. Now as for the filter, in that area you can always get different advice, and many are good as some aren`t as so. But as i read further on your post, you say its all you have as filtration, the aquarclear 300.
So all you have inside this tank, is the live sand, no live rocks or anything? Now as for the sand bed, it should be no more then 2" deep. Not 4". So tell me, how long this tank been setup. Happy Fishing ><{{{{">
Buddy
:Sorry about that - I have an AquaClear 300 filter, about 4 inches of live sand and that's pretty much it. I was told to hold off on the protein skimmer since all I have in the tank right now is the fish. Since I'm real new to this, I don't have any powerheads- I thought a filter would be enough. Have I set the tank up all wrong? Anyway, in the past couple of days, they've gotten worse. Last night they had stringy mucus hanging off of them. i did another water change about 20% - but they're still sick.
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