captan42
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- Bolingbrook, IL
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- Illinois
Hey all, new guy to the forums and to the hobby. Have zero experience besides what I have learned doing research. Still tons more to learn so I'll thank everyone now for all the help I've already received and hope to get in the future.
Little info about my setup.
30 gallon breeder, I know it's small but I don't have a lot of room and 2 rambunctious large dogs I can't go bigger at the moment. So it's sitting in my basement on a counter top that doesn't get direct sunlight.
I have a fluval HOB filter with carbon media
25 pounds of reefrock 2.0 that was cured at my LFS (you'll have to forgive my crappy aquascaping).
20pds of caribsea sandbed
200 watt heater (went bigger so I could use it in a larger tank down the road)
Fluval aquasky 300-25000k led light
Jebao PP-4 powerhead.
I plan to have a few fish (whatever my tank can support) and a few corals softies easy stuff to start.
Tank has been up and running for a few weeks, I got a bottle of Dr. Tim's One and Only, put it in about a week into the tank operation and dosed up to 2ppm of Dr Tim's ammonium chloride.
I got daitom's after only a few days of the tank being up and running even before the One and Only dose. I had some cheapo test strips from the LFS but they never showed any ammonia or nitrite/nitrate. So I ordered up a better kit and mistakenly purchased the API kit for ammonia/nitrite/nitrate. After dosing up to 2ppm of ammonia it's taken a few days for it to drop to 0. Still have a little nitrite and now 2ppm of nitrate in the system.
I'm getting a algae hair bloom that's brown/green. I'm not going to add a fish until the ammonia is at 0 and I'm for sure the tank has cycled. But I need to ask when do I add the CuC?
I'll make another post from my phone with some pics.
Little info about my setup.
30 gallon breeder, I know it's small but I don't have a lot of room and 2 rambunctious large dogs I can't go bigger at the moment. So it's sitting in my basement on a counter top that doesn't get direct sunlight.
I have a fluval HOB filter with carbon media
25 pounds of reefrock 2.0 that was cured at my LFS (you'll have to forgive my crappy aquascaping).
20pds of caribsea sandbed
200 watt heater (went bigger so I could use it in a larger tank down the road)
Fluval aquasky 300-25000k led light
Jebao PP-4 powerhead.
I plan to have a few fish (whatever my tank can support) and a few corals softies easy stuff to start.
Tank has been up and running for a few weeks, I got a bottle of Dr. Tim's One and Only, put it in about a week into the tank operation and dosed up to 2ppm of Dr Tim's ammonium chloride.
I got daitom's after only a few days of the tank being up and running even before the One and Only dose. I had some cheapo test strips from the LFS but they never showed any ammonia or nitrite/nitrate. So I ordered up a better kit and mistakenly purchased the API kit for ammonia/nitrite/nitrate. After dosing up to 2ppm of ammonia it's taken a few days for it to drop to 0. Still have a little nitrite and now 2ppm of nitrate in the system.
I'm getting a algae hair bloom that's brown/green. I'm not going to add a fish until the ammonia is at 0 and I'm for sure the tank has cycled. But I need to ask when do I add the CuC?
I'll make another post from my phone with some pics.
