cycling tank

[Fishthoughts]

hey guys! so im about 2 weeks into a new tank and we aren't sure if we should put fish in yet!

ammonia went from 5 parts per million to zero
and 6-7 parts per million for nitrate, we use the bottles bacteria seed to help it cycle,

 

[brandon429]

hey that's rare, a working api kit

fully agreed its ready. input only quarantined fish or expect losses by month 8/ see fish disease forum and new help posts/age of the average tank posting if that seems mean or crazy man statement

to come down from what must have been dark green on or about ten days stewing to that above is a 100% ready cycle tank. disease control is the next fish loss frontier to expect

if you're just doing two clowns and a goby for the life of the tank then 80% of the time that's fine, source for claims: any tank on nano-reef.com for the last two decs

but if planning speciation beyond that, 80% likely you'll have loss issues by the summertime if our disease forum here provides any predictive ability.

 

[Fishthoughts]

hey that's rare, a working api kit

fully agreed its ready. input only quarantined fish or expect losses by month 8/ see fish disease forum and new help posts/age of the average tank posting if that seems mean or crazy man statement

to come down from what must have been dark green on or about ten days stewing to that above is a 100% ready cycle tank. disease control is the next fish loss frontier to expect

if you're just doing two clowns and a goby for the life of the tank then 80% of the time that's fine, source for claims: any tank on nano-reef.com for the last two decs

but if planning speciation beyond that, 80% likely you'll have loss issues by the summertime if our disease forum here provides any predictive ability.

we are only putting in two clowns for now and possibly a coral as nothing is in the tank for them to inhabit, but we are only starting off with the two clowns for a few weeks before we put anything else in there )