Two weeks into cycling my tank, it’s never been uglier lol. Brown algae everywhere with hair algae sprinkled in. But my ammonia is below 0.02ppm and these are my current parameters tested with api salt/fresh 5 in 1 test strips. Question is, does it look like so good so far? I’m used to freshwater so this is a whole new animal for me.
Will do, i was also waiting till the cycle is over and i get alot of the uglies out before i add new rock, so hopefully by next week i’ll have alot more rock in there
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100% disagree but you already know that, don't you BrandonI have one buzzkill to relay lol
its about the fish
so in freshwater we select the fattest best ones, buy them, take them home and they do fine 99% of the time
well for marine, literally any fish you buy has a 99% chance of being dead in six months no matter how they do initially. there's a hidden trick
without fallow and quarantine they wont make a year. Gotta see this forum on how to keep fish alive, bottled additives wont cut it.
Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis
A forum for discussing treatment and diagnosing saltwater reef fish.
there is lots of debate on what works for fish disease. Notice how few options are repeated there, or stickies there, not the others folks debate.
use the stickies there for disease prevention in your fish. fallow and quarantine or they will not make 6-12 mos.
Honestly i just want a community tank and hopefully way down the line, coral. I was looking into 2 clowns, a watchman goby, two cardinals, coral beauty, and a firefish. But i’ll start researching QT and things alike100% disagree but you already know that, don't you Brandon
Ozy, I suggest doing a good bit of research into QT protocols, maybe tell us the fish you are interested in and your setup. I have 12 happy fish that were not quarantined going on 2 years now so I must really be a statistical anomaly! Just research up on the subject.
I love what you contribute here. Seriously. You are big about gathering empirical data, analyzing it to come up with a theory, and then testing that theory via work threads. It's a time proven application of the scientific method. Some day we will be able to test the non qt/nutrition theory as well. That data will be hard to collect as long as the people testing that theory are harassed in every thread it is mentioned.yes I disagree due to nobody contributing a single work thread where applicable. its hard to catch ether in a bag
that's why I like to neutrally point out what is stickied in the disease forum where people need help by skipping qt and fallow, and we can easily track there what works and what is 100% missing from options.
