On the way home to set up my nano/pico tank

[Brian60077]

I guess I cannot call it a pico tank any more, have to find out it's proper name.

 

[person]

Nano tank. Nano is small and pico is like super tiny

 

[Brian60077]

Tested nitrites and nitrates this morning

Nitrites 0.1
Nitrates 5

And a friend who has a reef tank says to still wait to add one fish. Umm it’s the middle of November im Chicago, wait too much longer the weather will not be hospitable to transport fish or coral due to the ambiant temperatures outside.

Or do people not understand that?

 

[Should I]

i would add some fritz turbo start 900 then add a small fish

 

[Brian60077]

Been using this

 

[Should I]

is that micro bacter 7?

 

[Brian60077]

Yep

 

[Brian60077]

Day 4 the Fluval evo 13.5 has been running

 

[Brian60077]

new early morning picture. Really thinking need fish to have something to look at. If the rocks were totally covered in corals then being in a hurry to get a fish or two would not be neccessary.... not crazy about seeing ROCKS.....

 

[Brian60077]

latest update......

2 bonded Clarkii Clowns found their way home with me from the fish store. They sure know how to hide good and give someone a heart attack. The lights were starting their ramp down when they were put in, decided to go for out for dinner, came home and the lights were out for the night..... looked in the tank and couldn't find them, naturally I start thinking they escaped somehow, but the top was on good and no one on the floor or on the counter next to the tank, decided to have a look around in the tank with the flashlight and they came swimming out from behind a rock with the look on their face as much to say "hey, we were sleeping stupid, do you mind?"...... Was about to start questioning the dog as to what he did with them....

 

[Brian60077]

Glad my friend stopped by to look at the tank yesterday afternoon. he has the same Fluval Evo 13.5 I do. He noticed what i suspected, that the return pump either was not pumping properly or at all. He told me how to take it out, and put it in a bucket of salt water, and it was not pumping. He told me how to take it apart, said you'll need to know this for monthly maintenance anyway, I had to learn the hard way... took the one cover off, pulled out impeller, we both thought it looks ok, put it back together and still didn't pump. Took off cover again, he said use this thin screwdriver and turn the impeller a few times, put it back together again and now it pumps good. he also adjusted the protien skimmer a little, said it is probably a good thing you had that running even though it was set too high, since you put fish in and the return pump was playing dead. 36 hours after putting my beautiful Clarkii Clowns in, they are happy and swimming around, only hid the fist night, corals are happy and now have the pump, power head and skimmer working as they should. Excuse the one snail for photobombing the picture, but the latest picture of it. Snail is in the lower right corner of glass.