Connecting Established Reef To New Tank

[brandon429]

This is one of the top five or ten cycling threads in reefing.


takes power away from bottle bac sellers

 

[Tuffloud1]

Finally got back to read this thread!
Pure gem. On point assessment and coaching. Would love to know how everything looks today @Tuffloud1 ? Really wish I would have given this thread a read before recent upgrade.
Totally different circumstances but could have applied 100% parameter control advice given in this thread instead of learning on the fly.

Here is the tank today -

 

[brandon429]

Your thread shows all dry start rock systems the undisputed best way to get what they want, and how to ford the uglies into staghornness. no rip cleaning, finesse and patience and timing that has a payoff date vs open ended wait. your thread gives them critical compliance time frames they can aim for.

 

[LRT]

Here is the tank today -

Incredible! Very nice man this was a super highly technical endeavor you pulled off here. Well done! Alot can be taken from this thread. Props to @ScottB as well.

 

[ScottB]

Scott are you using ocean rock, cycled dry rock from mature system or new dry rock in your upgrades?
Although this was entirely different from my recent upgrade tanks. I still seen 100% of the nutrient and parameter control you advised here. Tbh i feel i owe full success that I've had with my shroom lagoon to diligently matching and maintaining old system params to the T. I did not expect my lagoon to take off running the way it did but quickly caught on to alk and nutrient dispersement/usage and once I got a handle and stabilized it really did settle in nicely.
I did have to dose Nitrates and Phosphates daily but I took the lower dose approach of 1-2 ppm nitrates and .03-.06 phosphates. Didnt take alot of nitrate dosing maybe a week or 2 for my regular feeding to lock me back into around 5ppm, but seemed to take a solid month or 2 for phosphates to catch up and stay in readable range to now sitting at around .1 phosphates months later. I never did see an ugly phase in shroom lagoon knock on wood. I feel like it was super tight line I walked with lower constant dosing of nutrients.
The cpl times I missed dosing phosphates I did have a cpl of my super fussy shrooms start losing color. Was super critical keeping Phosphates in system. Did mine with all gulf rock though not sure if that makes much of a difference.

Good question. The answer is yes (very established rock from my display) but not enough of it. This is a frag system, so all the rock is sumped.

Compound that with me adding some dry Marco. I learned later (tested it myself) that this Marco rock is phosphate free. So it became a phosphate magnet therefor what little PO4 I had in the water (from display) was bound up in the clean aragonite. Poof: dinos.

Second time I was dosing, but not enough. All that clean surface area and clean frag rocks got some ostreopsis. Less bad. Similar the third time, but a better reaction time and 50 watts of UV cleared it real quick.

 

[brandon429]

Bumping one of the most important cycling threads online, for 2022 readers to see we are not bound to purchase cycling bac even for huge big jobs. Tank water has cycling bacteria free of charge, ready to share, even though for your entire career online peers have said cycling only happens on surfaces and cycling bacteria aren't found in water.

 

[brandon429]

we use this thread a lot to show expected uglies management in dry rock systems.

post #142 is a deeply shocking outcome example, hope this year looks equally solid

 

[k2reefer]

Thanks Brandon I will for sure be doing this now!!