Cycle Help

[littlefoxx]

Hello,
My plan for populating with living organisms:
1. Allow sufficient time for the nitrogen cycle to complete and water parameters within acceptable limits to accommodate fish or corals.
2. Once everything is in order, releasing 2nd Amphiprion Ocellaris and 1-2 starter corals. Waiting a few weeks and strictly monitoring the environment parameters.
3. If all is well, gradual settlement with other organisms.
Here in Bulgaria, very few people grow marine organisms in an aquarium. The supply of equipment and living organisms is severely limited. There are about 5-6 sea life stores in the entire country, and ordering from Amazon or eBay is expensive in terms of shipping.
Advice on growing your marine aquarium is also hard to come by. I have to ask here, since just reading and watching YouTube seems to be doing nothing.
A successful day and many smiles to all !!!

ah gotcha!! I think thats a good plan. You will love the clowns, great fish!

 

[19Mateo83]

Add pods if you can find them. They will help with the uglies.

 

[Outlaw Corals]

Hello,
I completely agree with you, but the patience for a whole year really came in handy. I appreciate you trying to help me, but the sight of your beautiful aquariums and mine looking like rocks after an earthquake and the idea of the whole year looking like this really stresses me out. Once again, thank you all for helping me!!!

Who the hell told you it will take a year to correct, trust me, but if you take some of the suggestions here you could have that system stable in less than two months, trust me, just get some of that bio media like I was telling you about, and some of this media that comes pre seeded and will seed the rest of your media in no time, this life biofuel is excellent

 

[Dan_P]

1,5 ppm ammonia.

With an initial total ammonia reading of. 1.5 ppm, we can expect 4.1 ppm NO2 to be formed. The nitrite measurement is in agreement. The nitrate reading is nonsense in the presence of nitrite. Seems like the ammonia is consumed.

We can safely assume that after a month, no ammonia remains. While the Salifert test does not confirm this expectation, the danger is low if the assumption is incorrect because the fraction of free ammonia in 0.15 ppm total ammonia is around 0.02 ppm. A Seachem Alert ammonia detection badge would confirm this.

If you feel that you need to confirm that you have established a healthy population of nitrifying bacteria, add a small amount of ammonia and monitor the ammonia level decline over several days. 0.5 ppm total ammonia is more than enough.

Good luck!

 

[stambo3]

Who the hell told you it will take a year to correct, trust me, but if you take some of the suggestions here you could have that system stable in less than two months, trust me, just get some of that bio media like I was telling you about, and some of this media that comes pre seeded and will seed the rest of your media in no time, this life biofuel is excellent

I would like to apologize if I offended you. I'm using google translate and it's possible that I didn't understand your words, for which I'm sorry. I ordered the indicated biomedia, when it arrives I will write to you about the result.

 

[Bruttall]

I have a 300g I started in Feb this year, my build thread documents everything I have done. 4 month old tank!!! Yes FOUR MONTHS OLD.

 

[stambo3]

Имам 300g, който започнах през февруари тази година, нишката ми за изграждане документира всичко, което съм направил. Танк на 4 месеца!!! Да НА ЧЕТИРИ МЕСЕЦА.

Hello,
Looks great in your aquarium. And my dream is to achieve a fraction of your achievement, but for now I only have stones and sand.

 

[Outlaw Corals]

I would like to apologize if I offended you. I'm using google translate and it's possible that I didn't understand your words, for which I'm sorry. I ordered the indicated biomedia, when it arrives I will write to you about the result.

No, it’s OK. You did not offend me at all buddy. If someone told you that you had to wait a year for your tank to get straightened out, they gave you some very bad information that’s all I was really saying.

 

[stambo3]

No, it’s OK. You did not offend me at all buddy. If someone told you that you had to wait a year for your tank to get straightened out, they gave you some very bad information that’s all I was really saying.

Thank you,
This mechanical google translator failed me, I'm glad I didn't offend you. I wish you a successful day!!!

 

[Bruttall]

Hello,
Looks great in your aquarium. And my dream is to achieve a fraction of your achievement, but for now I only have stones and sand.

Stambo3 if I can achieve this, you can also. Good Luck and Happy Reefing.