Larry Cox
New Member
Hello everyone,
My name is Larry. I design and build electrical control systems for machinery and automate production lines for a living, for fun just about anything in the outdoors. I love to snorkel and snuba dive, my next step is to become scuba certified. So a little history, I first got into the hobby about six years ago, A friend of mine had a 50 gal. reef setup, I was amazed and kept telling my wife that I would like to get into saltwater aquariums. A few months later I was at that same friends house and saw that his tank was sitting empty in his garage with all the rock piled up beside it, so 250.00 later I had a 50 gal. tank sitting in my living room. About six months into it I ran across a deal on a 75 gal. tank with a 40 gal. sump, I transferred everything from the 50 to the 75. By this time I was driving my wife crazy, dragging her into every fish store area. About two years into my tank was full of life and looking great, but do to unfortunate circumstances I had to get out of the hobby. So now I am back. I have a JBJ Nano cube cf quad 28 gal. that I have just set up. My plans are to within the next 3 to 5 weeks replace the cf lighting with rapid LEDs, add apex jr. controller, phosban reactor, Gyre 130 and once I get ready to start adding fish a skimmer. I put live rock in it about two weeks ago, My parameters looked good except the PH was high so yesterday I added about 30 pounds of live sand hoping that will buffer the PH. So I have a question, since I used live rock and live sand shouldn't this shorten my cycle time a little? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
My name is Larry. I design and build electrical control systems for machinery and automate production lines for a living, for fun just about anything in the outdoors. I love to snorkel and snuba dive, my next step is to become scuba certified. So a little history, I first got into the hobby about six years ago, A friend of mine had a 50 gal. reef setup, I was amazed and kept telling my wife that I would like to get into saltwater aquariums. A few months later I was at that same friends house and saw that his tank was sitting empty in his garage with all the rock piled up beside it, so 250.00 later I had a 50 gal. tank sitting in my living room. About six months into it I ran across a deal on a 75 gal. tank with a 40 gal. sump, I transferred everything from the 50 to the 75. By this time I was driving my wife crazy, dragging her into every fish store area. About two years into my tank was full of life and looking great, but do to unfortunate circumstances I had to get out of the hobby. So now I am back. I have a JBJ Nano cube cf quad 28 gal. that I have just set up. My plans are to within the next 3 to 5 weeks replace the cf lighting with rapid LEDs, add apex jr. controller, phosban reactor, Gyre 130 and once I get ready to start adding fish a skimmer. I put live rock in it about two weeks ago, My parameters looked good except the PH was high so yesterday I added about 30 pounds of live sand hoping that will buffer the PH. So I have a question, since I used live rock and live sand shouldn't this shorten my cycle time a little? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
