Looking for new tank stock

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[leigekiller]

Hey all, I am looking to pick up some bottom cleaners and some new tank fish/corals to start with for my 92gallon tank.

Does anyone have recomendations or critters they want to sell/trade.

Thanks
Daniel

PS I hope to meet all of you at the meeting this month end.

[Nate C.]

how long has the tank been up?  If it's only been a week or two, you shouldn't be putting anything in until you verify your ammonia and nitrate spike (cycle) have subsided.  Once you get through that, get some snails (and crabs if you want them), and a few small hardy fish (do your research, you want to limit the aggressive fish added in the beginning so they don't terrorize later additions).  If they survive without issue and your levels don't get out of wack, then you should be able to start slowly adding other livestock.

[leigekiller]

tank has been up for a week with a jumpstart addative and rock directly from one tank to this one so I am hopeing that it won't go massively out of whack.  We added 3 Chromis as the hardy fish *cringe* and about 10 small cleaners to get things started.

Daniel

[Nate C.]

Keep an eye on the levels, you can still have a cycle.  But, most likely water changes will keep it minimal and/or allow you to recover from a spike if you stay on top of the testing.  I suggest keeping a 20% water change made up and ready all the time.  That way if you notice a problem, you are ready to fix ASAP.

Sounds like you are on the right track with the starter fish and such.  I'd give it about a month before you start adding anything that costs very much.