My Tang is rather small and after talking to the guys at the lfs they said that the fish will be fine in a 46Gal tank, if it starts to get too big I can sell it back. As goes the water quality I checked Alk. Amonia, ph, Nitrates, Nitriites. I don't remember the exact readings, but they all matched the color bars perfect, both when i checked them and when my LFS checked them. The fish aren't all dead, the one I pulled out of the tank is alive as well as 2 emerald crab and 5 small .. very small.. hermit crabs, and one pep. shrimp.
The first fish to be introduced this last go around was a damsel. My tank, I'm mistaken, has been setup for much more than 3 months. I let it cycle for 8 weeks with just live rock, each time the fish died I let it stand with the filters going for about 2-3 weeks. I introduce a small damsel first each time because each time all the water checks I've done showed good water (pH, Nitrites, Nitrates, Alk. and Amonia). I figured if I was going to subject a fish to the water that might be poluted I would use a $4.00 fish first. I don't doubt I may have done something wrong, but for all my fish to be fine one day and dead the next strikes me as odd.
I was feeding them frozen brine, I would put 1 full cube in a glass full of the tank water and pour that water in slowly until they had eaten all they could in 2 min. I did this twice daily.
The canister filter had the carbon changed monthly.
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