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Re:Banggai Day 20, help calm my nerves
Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:05 PM
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Your big challenge at this point is to monitor water quality. Make sure to clean detritus from the bottom of the tank and do small water changes frequently. I'm rooting for ya, Titus!
- David Gibson Denton, TX
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Re:Banggai Day 20, help calm my nerves
Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:46 PM
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 Originally Posted by gramalkin
Your big challenge at this point is to monitor water quality. Make sure to clean detritus from the bottom of the tank and do small water changes frequently.
I'm rooting for ya, Titus!
Thanks... I do frequent water changes on all my tanks, spending about 10 minutes a day on them. For the grow out tank, I have combined it's W/C with the Banggai broodstock tank. Every other day, I remove and dispose of 1.5 gallons from the grow-out tank (30%). I then take 1.5g from the heavily filtered broodstock tank and place it in the grow-out tank and add 1.5g new SW to the broodstock tank. This results in a 5% new water w/c in the broodstock tank every other day, and a 30% used water w/c in the grow-out tank. I have an ammonia alert in the grow-out tank that I can always see, and I think I may start testing nitrates weekly as the fish start getting bigger. If the nitrates start rising, I will look at using new SW in the grow-out tank WC and/or consider going to a larger grow-out tank. I suspect a lot of that will depend on the survival rate as I can't imagine I will be able to stick with a 5g tank for long with the current fish count (40).
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