Cycling new rocks question?

Reefing_addiction · Aug 17, 2020

Ok so I got my rocks in a bucket with a pump. I added some clean salt water (probably 2gallons) and about a gallon of water out of my tank from a recent water change.

Will that help with cycling?

What’s the fastest way to cycle them?

When swapping out old rocks for new rocks can i just take the old ones out and put the new ones in or should I try and leave the old ones in there for a week or so after placing my new ones in?

Smokeshow · Aug 17, 2020

Why are you replacing your rocks? Just going to a different scape? Or is there something wrong with them? If their good could put 1 or 2 in the bucket of new rock to help seed them with bacteria. Or get a bottle of bacteria to help speed it along. Do you have an ammonia source in the bucket? Either ghost feed or raw table shrimp. I like to dose straight ammonia when I cycle a tank

Reefing_addiction · Aug 17, 2020

Smokeshow said:
Why are you replacing your rocks? Just going to a different scape? Or is there something wrong with them? If their good could put 1 or 2 in the bucket of new rock to help seed them with bacteria. Or get a bottle of bacteria to help speed it along. Do you have an ammonia source in the bucket? Either ghost feed or raw table shrimp. I like to dose straight ammonia when I cycle a tank

Just don’t like it anymore and with the new Rainbow chalice I have coming in i don’t have room for the way it is set up now. I guess I should run to my local fish store and grab some bacteria and maybe some ammonia. That’s gonna have to be on Tuesday cuz they aren’t open on Monday.

Smokeshow · Aug 17, 2020

Could you rearrange your current rocks? Maybe remove a few pieces? What size tank? Do you have a sump? I have a 75 and had to much rock to begin with. Ended up putting a few pieces in my sump to make more room in my dt

Reefing_addiction · Aug 17, 2020

This is my new set up.

I’m probably going to leave some of my old rock but it will be the piece i sit under my chalice. This gives me a smaller footprint. I placed 1inch pvc tubes under each of those base rocks to lift it up out of the sand