currently I'm cycling my tank without light on, however i got some information that we should turn on the light during cycle. The advantage of doing this is that the algae bloom during the cycle will help to used up all the nutrients from the rock until the algae stave to die then manually remove the death algae before it turn to po4 and no3 for next algae bloom. How true is this?
Light on during cycle
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Umm. A little of both kinda.
But it does depend. If it's live rock with all kinds of "goodies" on it yea. (You should scrub it).
If it's dry rock. There are few to no algaes present.
Most algaes must be introduced into a system. Mined ive rock should have zero algaes and diatoms or cyanos.
But it does depend. If it's live rock with all kinds of "goodies" on it yea. (You should scrub it).
If it's dry rock. There are few to no algaes present.
Most algaes must be introduced into a system. Mined ive rock should have zero algaes and diatoms or cyanos.
I'm currently using dry rock to start up the tank. However will those death organisms left in the dry rock lead to algae boom? Because i believe during cycling the tank, those death organisms definitely will turn into nutrients. I just want to makesure there is no excess nutrients leaking from the rock before i adding any pollution (fish that created fish poo). Therefore should i introduced some algae?
Ah. You mean organics. If it's dried Rock yes it may have some. But it is usually pretty clean.
And no. Don't add anything.
The bacteria will eat the extra nutints.
And no. Don't add anything.
The bacteria will eat the extra nutints.
scriptmonkey
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So I just had a Tampa Bay Saltwater part 1 delivered on Memoral day and it just wrapped up cycling i believe. They were having me to only run the lights no more than 5 hours a day. I was getting Stupid high ammonia levels due to sponges dying and doing 75% water changes and I still could not keep them down. I bought a bottle of Instant Ocean Bio-Spira and ammonia was zero in 48 hours and has stayed down since Monday.
I'm soooo jealous.
Keep running your carbon too. You'll save more of the live stuff. It's a very different type of cycle.
scriptmonkey
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Yeah. I was doing about 30-35% water changes twice a day to try to keep up. Thanks for the advice with the carbon, I set up my carbon reactor tomorrow seeing I'm off.
Yup. The sponges can be nasty. If you get em in water fast it's ok but.....shipping.
