Hey guys i have a question I'm currently curing my dry rock almost done with the cycle my question is should I use the water that my rock is in to help fill the display tank so I don't loose all the beneficial bacteria or should I cycle the tank then ad my cured rock ?
40b reef tank
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Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of curing the rocks if you just dump the water into the tank because I thought that when you cure rocks your getting rid of the bad stuff and everything and if you use that water for your tank your dumping the bad stuff into the tank right
40B Knasty
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Ammonia toxic waste to fish and needs to be turned into nitrates.
Nitrites bacteria turns ammonia into nitrates.
Nitrates is what needs to be removed.
Anaerobic bacteria is what turns nitrates into a gas form to float that up and out of your tank. Also by you doing water changes.
Just stick your LR(live rock) in your tank. Put a table shrimp from your grocery store for .50¢ in your sand bed a little so it doesn't float up. Let it rot. That will spike your ammonia. Then you will have nitrites build up and nitrates at the same time pretty much. Let the nitrites and ammonia go back down to zero. Do a big water change like 70%. Get your nitrates below 10ppm at least. The lower the better. 1 if you can. Then boom you are ready to start.
Don't waste your time with products or rushing anything. Your anaerobic bacteria isn't in a bottle or something that happens over night. Turn your LR into a machine to help with the never ending battle of nitrates. Unless you like doing massive water changes every 4 days and have to do it manually till your tank is stable and can do it itself. There is no instant gratification in this hobby. Maybe a sea hare to remove green hair algae. That's about it.
Nitrites bacteria turns ammonia into nitrates.
Nitrates is what needs to be removed.
Anaerobic bacteria is what turns nitrates into a gas form to float that up and out of your tank. Also by you doing water changes.
Just stick your LR(live rock) in your tank. Put a table shrimp from your grocery store for .50¢ in your sand bed a little so it doesn't float up. Let it rot. That will spike your ammonia. Then you will have nitrites build up and nitrates at the same time pretty much. Let the nitrites and ammonia go back down to zero. Do a big water change like 70%. Get your nitrates below 10ppm at least. The lower the better. 1 if you can. Then boom you are ready to start.
Don't waste your time with products or rushing anything. Your anaerobic bacteria isn't in a bottle or something that happens over night. Turn your LR into a machine to help with the never ending battle of nitrates. Unless you like doing massive water changes every 4 days and have to do it manually till your tank is stable and can do it itself. There is no instant gratification in this hobby. Maybe a sea hare to remove green hair algae. That's about it.
