Caring for small frogspawn frag?

[Waleedwale1]

So I picked up a small frogspawn frag today for 10 dollars and its pretty cool. Most of my tank is softies and this is my first LPS. The tank is a 6 gal and is under a 24 watt par 38. Stock are 2 clowns, a golden CBS and hermits and snails. In going to upgrade to a biocube soon and want to use this as a frag/grow out tank. The frags been in the tank for about 3 hours after being drip acclimated for 45 minutes. Does it look fine? It is under the filter outtake and I'm running a hydor 240, is the flow enough? I plan on giving it some mysis shrimp through a syringe or turkey baster, is that fine? I manage to keep nitrates under 20 and am about to do a water change. I don't have a calcium test yet, is the API reef master kit somewhat accurate? I usually just squirt some Kent's calcium into the water before a water change. In the pics, the frag is between the 2 walls of rock in the center of the tank.

 

[Waleedwale1]

Also, some of the tentacles on the side are a bit deflated, is that normal?

 

[troywalkerphoto]

A few days will tell. You should not "squirt" anything into your tank without a test for the additive! Do NOT use API! Buy a quality kit Red sea makes a good one and so does salifert And they are affordable especially the foundation kits. Also why add cal before a water change????????? That's a waste and there is no telling what your levels are...
Flo should be low to moderate to sway the tentacles and provide transport and export of nutrients.
20ppm nitrates , API test, No Cal test, new froggie... Im no pro but get it together bro. If you need a test done LFS will usually hook you up but you need a foundation kit at least.

 

[Waleedwale1]

A few days will tell. You should not "squirt" anything into your tank without a test for the additive! Do NOT use API! Buy a quality kit Red sea makes a good one and so does salifert And they are affordable especially the foundation kits. Also why add cal before a water change????????? That's a waste and there is no telling what your levels are...
Flo should be low to moderate to sway the tentacles and provide transport and export of nutrients.
20ppm nitrates , API test, No Cal test, new froggie... Im no pro but get it together bro. If you need a test done LFS will usually hook you up but you need a foundation kit at least.

I ment that I add it to the water that goes into the tank after the water change. My LFS is trash lol, I'm talking like dead hippo tangs and recommending then for 30 gallon tanks trash. They don't even offer CA, only Ammonia, nitrite and nitrates which they manage to mess up. I'm working on bringing the nitrates down though. I just searched for the Red Sea foundation test kit and it isn't tat expensive, I'll pick one up soon though as well as a nitrate test kit, that what is telling me I have 20 ppm of nitrate but I'm starting to doubt it as I have a aqua clear 20 refugium, macro algae and do a 2-3 gal water change every 3-4 days and often skip feeding.

 

[Moneymaks24]

Dude your doing fine!! 20 nitrates is fine API test kits are fine, don't add any calcium ever just do a water change weekly and your good. It's so easy to keep nano tanks just do 1 gallon water change weekly and that's it. Don't bother w testing for calcium or anything it's all a waste of $ for pico tanks. Believe me I spent hundreds if not thousands before realizing this for nano tanks especially .

 

[Moneymaks24]

And a blue tang is fine in a 30 gallon btw as long as its small I have a 34 and a blue tang he's super happy

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Yea great advice money. NOT! A blue tang or any tang is not good in a 30 gallon tank. No matter how small it is. They require alot of swimming room. Please do not post bad advice thankyou

Also how do you tell someone not to test there tank. What kind of advice is this. Please stop! If his tank is consuming more then his weekly water changes then he needs to dose and needs to test. Please stop giving bad advice it would be greatly appreciated ...

 

[Tranquil201]

Yea great advice money. NOT! A blue tang or any tang is not good in a 30 gallon tank. No matter how small it is. They require alot of swimming room. Please do not post bad advice thankyou

Also how do you tell someone not to test there tank. What kind of advice is this. Please stop! If his tank is consuming more then his weekly water changes then he needs to dose and needs to test. Please stop giving bad advice it would be greatly appreciated ...

+1

I don't recommend any tang in that small of a tank to be honest. I would say 90 minimum they need plenty of swimming room like Tony said. I also think you should get your nitrate down below 20. I for instance try not to let mine climb past 10PPM. Don't dose unless you test for it first. Supplementing is fine as long as you monitor the levels first.

 

[BaaMNYC]

A few days will tell. You should not "squirt" anything into your tank without a test for the additive! Do NOT use API! Buy a quality kit Red sea makes a good one and so does salifert And they are affordable especially the foundation kits. Also why add cal before a water change????????? That's a waste and there is no telling what your levels are...
Flo should be low to moderate to sway the tentacles and provide transport and export of nutrients.
20ppm nitrates , API test, No Cal test, new froggie... Im no pro but get it together bro. If you need a test done LFS will usually hook you up but you need a foundation kit at least.

Yea great advice money. NOT! A blue tang or any tang is not good in a 30 gallon tank. No matter how small it is. They require alot of swimming room. Please do not post bad advice thankyou

Also how do you tell someone not to test there tank. What kind of advice is this. Please stop! If his tank is consuming more then his weekly water changes then he needs to dose and needs to test. Please stop giving bad advice it would be greatly appreciated ...

+1 on both

 

[lnevo]

API test kits are sooo bad. They are fine for checking your cycle but after that they are garbage. Had a bad nitrate kit. Kept testing at 0, brought to LFS and it was 40-80!!! I was thrown back by that. Bought the red sea algae kit (nitrate/phosphate). What a difference!

 

[Waleedwale1]

API test kits are sooo bad. They are fine for checking your cycle but after that they are garbage. Had a bad nitrate kit. Kept testing at 0, brought to LFS and it was 40-80!!! I was thrown back by that. Bought the red sea algae kit (nitrate/phosphate). What a difference!

There's only a 15 dollar difference in that and in the only nitrate kit, do they both have the same nitrate test?

 

[Tranquil201]

API test kits are sooo bad. They are fine for checking your cycle but after that they are garbage. Had a bad nitrate kit. Kept testing at 0, brought to LFS and it was 40-80!!! I was thrown back by that. Bought the red sea algae kit (nitrate/phosphate). What a difference!

I had the same issue with my API nitrate. But the opposite it kept reading the highest nitrate level i think it was like 160PPM... I tested like 10 times and was like my whole tank would be dead lol.. I went to the store it was only 8PPM I used API on my first tank i think we all probably did . I've been using Red-sea ever since. :splitspin

 

[Waleedwale1]

I had the same issue with my API nitrate. But the opposite it kept reading the highest nitrate level i think it was like 160PPM... I tested like 10 times and was like my whole tank would be dead lol.. I went to the store it was only 8PPM I used API on my first tank i think we all probably did . I've been using Red-sea ever since. :splitspin

Would you say that Red Sea is very accurate? I'm trying to decide between Red Sea and sali fert.

 

[Tranquil201]

Would you say that Red Sea is very accurate? I'm trying to decide between Red Sea and sali fert.

I feel the redsea is accurate. I haven't used the sailfert test kit so I cannot comment on that. I would recommend Redsea as I have experience with it and I like their kit. I am not crazy about the Phosphate test as I find it sometimes hard to get a good reading usually i have to say it's between this number and that number.. That's the only test of Red sea i really don't care for much.

 

[Moneymaks24]

Yea great advice money. NOT! A blue tang or any tang is not good in a 30 gallon tank. No matter how small it is. They require alot of swimming room. Please do not post bad advice thankyou

Also how do you tell someone not to test there tank. What kind of advice is this. Please stop! If his tank is consuming more then his weekly water changes then he needs to dose and needs to test. Please stop giving bad advice it would be greatly appreciated ...

1.Lol how can a nano tank w a few corals consume more calcium than in a water change? Who's giving bad advice now?

2. A tiny blue tang is fine on a 30 gallon it's on a website forgot which. I don't make anything up.

3. Just trying to save the kid some money. I wish someone told me this before I spent hundreds on useless unnecessary things.

You don't have to listen to me but if u don't believe me go watch my documentary on my 8 gallon tank for over a year with NO FILTRATION and corals and fish thriving with a $40 led and nothing else but water change.

Learn it the hard way if you want I don't really care it's your $$$$$

 

[Moneymaks24]

I didn't say don't test the tank. Don't put words in my mouth. I said don't buy a calcium test kit for a nano tank like what's the point unless you have a ridiculous large colony coral.

 

[Moneymaks24]

And a phosphate kit IMO is also useless I have a $30 kit but learn the hard way that phosphates can read 0 but it don't mean anything since the algae can be consuming it. So like I said he can learn himself if he wants I'm just trying speaking from experience and stuff I read.

 

[BaaMNYC]

Dude your doing fine!! 20 nitrates is fine API test kits are fine, don't add any calcium ever just do a water change weekly and your good. It's so easy to keep nano tanks just do 1 gallon water change weekly and that's it. Don't bother w testing for calcium or anything it's all a waste of $ for pico tanks. Believe me I spent hundreds if not thousands before realizing this for nano tanks especially .

You specifically said "don't add any calcium EVER just do a water change weekly and your good".

"Don't bother w testing for calcium or anything it's all a waste of $ for pico tanks"

I feel these statements are incorrect or stated not clearly enough and could be easily misinterpreted. If a 30 gallon tank is Sps dominant (I understand op's is not) the tank can easily need dosing of calcium and water changes alone wont provide enough calcium.

Testing is important for any sized tank. It just depends on the tank what you should test for. You probably meant for an Lps dominant tank you don't need to test for calcium. I would agree with that.

 

[troywalkerphoto]

I dont usually recommend one store over the next but if you want to know where your water is take a sample to manhattan reef on 37th street in manhattan. They test for free (I would buy something or tip the guy for lunch or something).