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Stocking for 20 gallon wall mounted tank


doanthaitu

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Hi everyone,

 

I am new to this hobby and I'm starting with my existing wall mounted 20 gallon tank. The tank is 15in tall, 59in long and 5in wide. The main display is 51in. There are 2 side compartments (one on each side) with about 4x5x15 each. I put a eshopps nano skimmer on the left with a power pump underneath to make sure water will flow in from the main display. On the other side I put a Fluval U4. The U4 has 3 compartments in sandwich style, a bioball compartment in the middle and filter media on 2 sides. I replace those filter media with Purigen on 1 side and Chemi Pure Elite on the other. I also have 2 Jebao WP10 wavemakers, one on each side.

 

The tank has live sand bottom of about 1-2in. has about 15lbs of live rocks and small coral. I currently have a cleaner shrimp and a longpike urchin in there. I've started this tank about 2 months ago, and I get Diatoms 2 times already, which killed some fishes. The urchin and the cleaner shrimp survived all that, amazing. I cleaned everything up and added the Purigen and CPE in my tank about 2 weeks ago and notice great water improvement.

 

My question would be how long should I wait till I can add fishes again. My water is as follow:

 

NO3: 20

NO2: 0

PH: 8.5

KH: 120

GH: 180

gravity: 1.025

 

Should I use any trace supplements? I do weekly water change of 20%. I plan to add:

 

Pajamas Cardinal x1

Banggai Cardinal x1

Firefish x1

Ocellaris Clown x1

small coral (undecided) x1

 

Would this be ok?

 

Sorry for keeping you reading this long, but I'm new and I need your professional opinion.

 

Thank you everyone for reading this. Oh and here's the picture of my tank.

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Well, im not an expert on what the water chemicals should be at. I simply take my water to the LFS and see if its fine. As for the fish however, I think you should be fine with 4 fish in a 20 gallon tank. I saw the picture and thought you has 2 Yellow Tangs and was scared for a moment but it was just the background lmao.

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LOL, many has been fooled because of that wonderful back ground. I just added CUC from reefcleaner, everything is great right now. I changed my mind a bit, I will go with 1 Ocellaris, 1 Purple Firefish, 1 yellow clown goby, and 1 more, I can't decide on either Royal Gramma, Midas Blenny, another goby, or any peaceful fish. Any suggestion?

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IMO only do those three, the tank is really thin so the surface area is smaller and there is unusual swimming dimensions.

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