adding an angel...

[csv_scorpion]

here's what i have:

- 33 Gallon tank
- 4" Sugar sized sand
- 18 lbs of live rock (mostly Fuji)

- Fluvel 304
- 2 powerheads (145 GHP and 300 GHP)

- 1 blue yellow-tail damsel
- 2 false percula clownfish
- 1 watchman diamond goby
- 1 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
- 5 zebra hermit crabs

i want to add a Coral Beauty Angelfish. which fish out of the list above should i take out? personally, i want to take out the damsel... cause he's a really boring fish. but i'm not sure if the coral beauty is compatible with the shrimp. i saw on a compatibility chart that angels should be cautioned when combining with an invertebrate. what do you guys think?

also... i heard that the fluval filters are considered nitrate factories (it was in another thread here), but i was thinking... what if i took out the floss, biomax, and carbon and place smaller pieces of Fuji live rock. would that help lower nitrates? or would it not do anything?

 

[MaryHM]

I'd remove the damsel. The coral beauty shouldn't bother the cleaner shrimp. Make sure you are getting a Fiji or Tonga coral beauty. The majority you will see come from Indo and Philippines and are cyanide targets.

 

[Garry thomas]

MMMMMmmmm interesting subject this cyanide? :roll: thought it was banned :?:

 

[tazdevil]

The compatibility chart is referring to corals, as ALL angels, pygmy, full sized, or dwarfs, can be corals eaters. He'll love the company of a cleaner shrimp, getting cleaned every once in a while.

As far as the fluval- Nice idea, however, I think there would be too much water flow over the LR for anaerobic (low oxygen level) areas to develop, which is whats needed for conversion of nitrate to free nitrogen gas. You could use the fluval as a closed loop water circulator (withou filter pads etc. in it). Or keep it on hand in case you ever need to run carbon to remove something from the water.

 

[csv_scorpion]

so the powerheads flowing water in the tank at a fast rate doesn't really higher nitrates. it's the fluval that creates high levels of oxygen, which in turn create higher levels of nitrate.

so is it better just to take out everything in the fluval... and just put in carbon every once in a while?

someone was saying to drastically slow down the flow of the fluval, but i don't know how i can do that.

 

[MaryHM]

Just because cyanide is illegal doesn't mean it isn't being used. Check out the discussion in the industry forum.

 

[saltjunkie]

so the powerheads flowing water in the tank at a fast rate doesn't really higher nitrates. it's the fluval that creates high levels of oxygen, which in turn create higher levels of nitrate.

so is it better just to take out everything in the fluval... and just put in carbon every once in a while?

someone was saying to drastically slow down the flow of the fluval, but i don't know how i can do that.

Dont follow this idea rapidly.... you have alot of bacterial filtration built up in that fluval... just unplugging it will cause a major loss of benefical bacteria. this can cause a mini cycle per say, and possible a loss of life........

 

[csv_scorpion]

oh... i know. i talk to someone at my LFS and he says to take away the insides slowly while watching the levels carefully.