RE:Ocellaris tank raised clownfish QT

[chiefifd]

I'll take another look at the Tank Transfer Method. For the clownfish I treated with Prazipro & Cupramine, that seemed to work well for the clowns.

 

[wooden_reefer]

I have a 10 gallon QT tank with 2 small Ocellaris tank raised clownfish. I received the clownfish from Live Aquaria 15 days ago, the smaller clown *is eating like a champ, the larger one seems to be picking at the food and spitting it out, he's not really eating. I've added Kent garlic to the flake food to entice him. Both clownfish are swimming all over the tank and look healthy.
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I have a Magnum 350 canister filter in the QT with filter sleeve and some coral rubble inside the canister filter. The ammonia & nitrites have been zero until yesterday, I tested and the ammonia was still zero but the nitrites bumped up a bit to .1 ***I didn't think I was over feeding but I know the clownfish didn't eat all the food. So I guess I might be over feeding a bit causing the slight nitrite bump up.
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Being my first saltwater tank I want to make it a success. Is it unusual for a clownfish to still be very picky eating after two weeks? I'd planned to treat the QT with PraziPro, this week but I was hoping that both the clownfish were eating well by now. Should I still treat with PraziPro as a preventive measure or wait until both clownfish are eating well?
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I have done weekly 2 gallon water changes. Last night I took apart the Magnum 350 and rinsed out the filter sleeve and put the filter back together. I'll tested the water today and rinsing the filter pad looked like it solved the .1 of nitrites.

The larger Ocellaris clownfish was still taking the the flake food and spitting it out.
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Salinity 1.025 w/refractor
Ammonia 0
Nitrites .0
Nitrates 10
Temp 78.5
All using Salifert Test Kits
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Any suggestions? I'm was midnight shift, going to bed....hoping to find some good answer here when I wake up............

It is not the nitrite itself that needs to be concerned. Nitrite should be zero. Some nitrite means that nitrification is not robust enough and some ammonia may be present at level not detected by cheap test kits.

How did you cycle the medium inside the CF?

 

[chiefifd]

I used ACE ammonia to cycle the DT, now ghost feeding DT daily. I kept 2 Magnum blue filter pads in the sump while the tank cycled. I used the two blue filters in the 10 gallon QT, one in the Magnum 350 and one filter sleeve in the QT tank for extra help getting rid of ammonia and nitrites. I haven't seen and ammonia at all in the QT tank, nor any nitrites.

My DT parameters are:
Salinity 1.025 w/refractor
Ammonia 0
Nitrites .0
Nitrates 25
Temp 78.5
All using Salifert Test Kits

I plan

 

[wooden_reefer]

I used ACE ammonia to cycle the DT, now ghost feeding DT daily. I kept 2 Magnum blue filter pads in the sump while the tank cycled. I used the two blue filters in the 10 gallon QT, one in the Magnum 350 and one filter sleeve in the QT tank for extra help getting rid of ammonia and nitrites. I haven't seen and ammonia at all in the QT tank, nor any nitrites.

My DT parameters are:
Salinity 1.025 w/refractor
Ammonia 0
Nitrites .0
Nitrates 25
Temp 78.5
All using Salifert Test Kits

I plan

You should have cycled the medium for QT directly, not in the DT and take it out.

The medium for QT must face the effect of ammonia by itself to assure robust cycling to handle the bioload in QT.

How do you know that enough ammonia is processed by the sponge intended for QT, and not nearly all elsewhere in the DT?

Cycling for QT is an extremely easy process.

 

[chiefifd]

I guess thats why I'm here looking for information, lots of it around. I'll check into cycling the display tank directly.
Thanks