Fish room care instructions

[Mrmole]

Hi you all, I am having a fish room with 2 racks of 3 100g tanks fish only.
2 of each is bottomless to keep new arrivals wild caught. The remaining tank is for sump with macro algea, crushed corals in net basket and live rock.

One rack is for quarantine and the other is for display.

I am looking for ways to maintain the tanks so my fish remain healthy such as changing water once a day about 5-10% by siphoning the bottom and replace with newly mixed instant ocean.

Could you help recommending procedures that I need to pay special attention to? Do I need a UV? or is skimmer required? I prefer algea scrubbers but not sure. How often should I test for NH4?

The tanks are up for a 1 week now.

Great thanks:bounce1:

 

[Mrmole]

Anyone?

 

[Mrmole]

anyone ((

 

[jjk_reef00]

You don't need a UV but they don't hurt if ran with the proper flow.
You should add a protein skimmer, there are many good ones (I use supper reef octopus external).
Read about ich and disease and figure out how you want to treat or prevent them.
I personally treat with prazipro for 2 weeks and cupramine for 3-4 weeks (ramp cupramine up to full dose over 4-7 days instead of the recommended 3).

You also shouldn't have to siphon out of your display tank (DT) because the fish should eat almost all of the food you feed. Make sure you have enough flow in your DT to push any detritus up into your overflow. Then your skimmer will skim out the waste. I use Tunze powerheads for added flow but you can use Vortech, closed loop, or other options. Since you are not removing water you can do weekly water changes (10-20% is plenty if you have a reasonably stocked aquarium).

You may have to siphoning uneaten food out of your QT because certain fish won't eat right away.

 

[jjk_reef00]

Not a lot of people visit fish disease forum. You should ask more specific questions and post them in the equipment forum, new to the hobby forum, or reef fish forum.

 

[Mrmole]

Acknowledged. Mod can you please delete this topic?. Thanks
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