我们将在如何设置礁石坦克系列中进入最后的“主要”部分,其中我们讨论添加鱼,骑自行车的实际含义以及对护理新珊瑚礁坦克的短期和中期维护。我们已经在我们的previous videothat adding corals to a reef tank is我们的水族馆设置中最喜欢的部分,但我们确信对于许多礁石人来说,热带礁鱼是主要事件。
与珊瑚不同very小型礁石水族馆的营养负荷,鱼类完全是另一个类别。作为更大,更复杂的水生动物,鱼具有较高的代谢,因此需要更多的食物,并且在礁石水族馆中产生更多的废物。
你可以never add fish to a saltwater aquarium and still call it a reef, populating it instead with higher invertebrates like mantis shrimp or cephalopods, but we’re confident that is not why you are here. The point is that the metabolism of corals is such that you can add several to a reef tank without much consequence to the biological load of the system, but every fish you add will need some food, will add some waste, and there is a finite amount of fish you can add to a given volume.
It is much more important to pay attention to your mini reef aquarium’s capacity to filter the water when adding fish, than with corals. Therefore you really want to take it slowly when adding fish to a new tank, not to mention making sure you have healthy fish, and that you add them in an order which won’t ‘lock in’ the pecking order of your fish population.
Our first step in adding fish to our 20 gallon mini reef was a pair of Mocha Storm Clownfish from Sea & Reef Aquaculture. It’s actually been two weeks and we’ve since added a trio of nice, orange mollies to act both as dither fish to make the clownfish more comfortable, to eat up leftover food, and to also act as miniature surgeonfish gobbling up any undesirable algae and growth.
At this point we have what most would consider a healthy, successful young mini reef aquarium that only needs time, attention, and very basic maintenance to continue thriving in the long term. We want to thank everyone who helped bring this mini-series together, and especially all of our viewers watching along. We’ll continue to update this reef and what we’re doing to it at infrequent intervals and try to spotlight the pertinent details when we think they are important to emphasize, so be sure and subscribe so you never miss another excitingReef Builders Video.