Cycling tank with Corals

[Aqau_Dude]

Hey guys,

I've been cycling my tank with dr tims one and only and amonion chloride. I bought some frags from a reefer thats quiting his tank and i read online that cycling for corals is not neccesary. How ever during cycling parameters drop so my alk is at 6 and at the moment nitrate is at 13. Would you suggest i dose alk, mag and calcium during cycling for the corals? I do have a running tank at the moment but it has verminited snails and i don't want to add the corals to that one since i don't want to bring pest over.

I do have a bio block i got from a establiched tank. Im just not sure if i should use it. It's still in a bucket with tank water but im afraid it might have some pest? His tank looked good and was running for a few years.

 

[dwest]

Hey guys,

I've been cycling my tank with dr tims one and only and amonion chloride. I bought some frags from a reefer thats quiting his tank and i read online that cycling for corals is not neccesary. How ever during cycling parameters drop so my alk is at 6 and at the moment nitrate is at 13. Would you suggest i dose alk, mag and calcium during cycling for the corals? I do have a running tank at the moment but it has verminited snails and i don't want to add the corals to that one since i don't want to bring pest over.

I do have a bio block i got from a establiched tank. Im just not sure if i should use it. It's still in a bucket with tank water but im afraid it might have some pest? His tank looked good and was running for a few years.

I would dose alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium to keep them at appropriate levels.

 

[Aqau_Dude]

Thank you, will start doing that with the reefdose today. You suggest raising it slow over of a few days?

 

[Aqau_Dude]

I would dose alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium to keep them at appropriate levels.

Dwest, i have another question. Do you recommend using a bio block from a established reef tank? My cycle is almost done but i tought it might add some extra bacterie. Only isseus is from BRS biodome video's using a bio block from exsisting reef gaf them allot of uglies during the uglies stage. I am running a refiugium, reefmat and skimmer.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Hopefully that ammonia drops pretty quickly if you dosed all the way to 2ppm ammonia...it's toxic to corals as well in high concentrations

 

[Aqau_Dude]

Hopefully that ammonia drops pretty quickly if you dosed all the way to 2ppm ammonia...it's toxic to corals as well in high concentrations

Ammonia shows at around 0,5 now. I read that for corals it fine since it can be used as fertilizer?

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Ammonia shows at around 0,5 now. I read that for corals it fine since it can be used as fertilizer?

Ok, if it's already fallen that low I wouldn't worry...if it was taking a while to drop from 2ppm I'd be more concerned

 

[Aqau_Dude]

Ok, if it's already fallen that low I wouldn't worry...if it was taking a while to drop from 2ppm I'd be more concerned

Thank you, im hooking up my reefdose today to pump the alk, mag and calcium. Would you recommend using a maxpecct bio block that comes from a few years old reef? I couldn't see any pest in his tank. No vermintied or aptasia. The Blockhas been sitting in tank water in a bucket for 2 days now.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

It couldn't hurt so you might as well although it probably wont help a whole lot.

Thank you, im hooking up my reefdose today to pump the alk, mag and calcium. Would you recommend using a maxpecct bio block that comes from a few years old reef? I couldn't see any pest in his tank. No vermintied or aptasia. The Blockhas been sitting in tank water in a bucket for 2 days now.

 

[Propane]

OP would a water change bring your levels back up to normal?

 

[Aqau_Dude]

OP would a water change bring your levels back up to normal?

Thanks for your reply, so i did a 20 gallon water change yesterday before setting everything up. and adding the lights. I am using tropic marin pro reef salt. Wich has pretty low paramaters to start with. Alk is 7 and mag is 1350.