Anything Missing From My Sump?
Hi all,
Trying to make my tank is as stable as possible so want to ensure that I have the required equipment to keep it running smoothly to keep nitrates and phosphates down. Right now there's 22 Marine Pure balls, a Coral Box S150 skimmer, filter sock, and a small bag of Seachem's Phosguard (30ml) running in there.
I empty the skimmer cup as needed and change the filter sock out every week or less depending how dirty it gets, and the Phosguard has been going for 2 weeks now with Phosphates still measuring very low, 0.1 I think from when I tested on the weekend.
Tank currently has 2 Clowns, 1 Mandarin, 1 Turbo snail, 2 torches and a Palm Tree coral.
Water params currently sitting at:
Salinity: 1.023
Nitrates: closer to 0ppm on Sera test kit, but might get a different one for more accurate readings, it only goes from 0 to 10
Phospate: 0.1 on Sear test kit, might have to change this too :p
Calcium: 400 on Salifert test kit
Alkalinity: 9 on Salifert test kit
Right now WC is changing 10% every weekend as well.
Is there anything I should add to this or would this be sufficient for now? Only going to have a max of 6 fish, but who knows how many corals I will end up adding over the next few months
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Trying to make my tank is as stable as possible so want to ensure that I have the required equipment to keep it running smoothly to keep nitrates and phosphates down. Right now there's 22 Marine Pure balls, a Coral Box S150 skimmer, filter sock, and a small bag of Seachem's Phosguard (30ml) running in there.
I empty the skimmer cup as needed and change the filter sock out every week or less depending how dirty it gets, and the Phosguard has been going for 2 weeks now with Phosphates still measuring very low, 0.1 I think from when I tested on the weekend.
Tank currently has 2 Clowns, 1 Mandarin, 1 Turbo snail, 2 torches and a Palm Tree coral.
Water params currently sitting at:
Salinity: 1.023
Nitrates: closer to 0ppm on Sera test kit, but might get a different one for more accurate readings, it only goes from 0 to 10
Phospate: 0.1 on Sear test kit, might have to change this too :p
Calcium: 400 on Salifert test kit
Alkalinity: 9 on Salifert test kit
Right now WC is changing 10% every weekend as well.
Is there anything I should add to this or would this be sufficient for now? Only going to have a max of 6 fish, but who knows how many corals I will end up adding over the next few months

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.