If your fish cant swim at full speed for 3 seconds or longer they are big and tank is too small. You should have like an orchid dotty back. Or like a pistol shimp and goby pair. Mabye even a smaller species of wrasse. Reach out to reef2reef and the community there. Talk to a member that has alot of knolege and ask them to help you with a stocking plan for your tank
Unfortunately you're stocking the tank too heavily. One small fish is about all you can safely put in a tank that small, and even then it's going to be a lot of work to be able to keep them healthy as the tank won't cope with the bioload well without a lot of maintenance.
I know many people who keep 2-3 fish in these tanks for years and haven’t had any issues as long as you establish a strong bio environment you shouldn’t have any issues
@@NanoReefing it’s about the billed and the ability of the tank to process that. Two blows in that size tank is not going to cope without either restricting the food to the fish massively, effectively starving them, or by doing multiple water changes a week.
@@pete_stewardson Having a good bio bacteria system is key. I have a stock 30g biocube (about 8mo old) with 4 fish, few shrimps and about 20 various snails along with some corals (not exactly overstocked im sure) but I initially would do ~15% water changes weekly and was having issues with 0 nitrate/phosphate so I stopped doing water changes temporarily while monitoring other levels. I haven't done a w/c in almost 6 weeks and still only around 2ppm nitrate but I do have about 75% of my back wall and rocks covered in purple coralline algae and growing fast. Coraline started appearing around 4 or 5 months.
@@pete_stewardson exactly, the point was the bio bacteria is key. Not doing a water change for 1.5 months even with a small bio load means my system could likely handle much much more. With an "overstocked" system as long as the bio filter is able to convert ammonia/nitrites to nitrates and they are taken care of before levels are too high its really not much of an issue. Clowns really dont move around the tank much either like many active swimmers. Active swimmers would def not be a good fit for a small tank.
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What would you recommend me for the second slot of the tank ? A protein skimmer ? Or what else equipment would you recommend
You should make this an anemone tank!! I would not recommend adding new fish due to the tanks size.
If your fish cant swim at full speed for 3 seconds or longer they are big and tank is too small. You should have like an orchid dotty back. Or like a pistol shimp and goby pair. Mabye even a smaller species of wrasse.
Reach out to reef2reef and the community there. Talk to a member that has alot of knolege and ask them to help you with a stocking plan for your tank
Unfortunately you're stocking the tank too heavily. One small fish is about all you can safely put in a tank that small, and even then it's going to be a lot of work to be able to keep them healthy as the tank won't cope with the bioload well without a lot of maintenance.
I know many people who keep 2-3 fish in these tanks for years and haven’t had any issues as long as you establish a strong bio environment you shouldn’t have any issues
@@NanoReefing it’s about the billed and the ability of the tank to process that. Two blows in that size tank is not going to cope without either restricting the food to the fish massively, effectively starving them, or by doing multiple water changes a week.
@@pete_stewardson Having a good bio bacteria system is key. I have a stock 30g biocube (about 8mo old) with 4 fish, few shrimps and about 20 various snails along with some corals (not exactly overstocked im sure) but I initially would do ~15% water changes weekly and was having issues with 0 nitrate/phosphate so I stopped doing water changes temporarily while monitoring other levels. I haven't done a w/c in almost 6 weeks and still only around 2ppm nitrate but I do have about 75% of my back wall and rocks covered in purple coralline algae and growing fast. Coraline started appearing around 4 or 5 months.
@@t4nk3d402 but the tank in the video is a 5G tank which is a huge difference
@@pete_stewardson exactly, the point was the bio bacteria is key. Not doing a water change for 1.5 months even with a small bio load means my system could likely handle much much more. With an "overstocked" system as long as the bio filter is able to convert ammonia/nitrites to nitrates and they are taken care of before levels are too high its really not much of an issue. Clowns really dont move around the tank much either like many active swimmers. Active swimmers would def not be a good fit for a small tank.