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[Juniorh2r]

Welcome to R2R!!! Very nice tank, you can buy salifert and red sea test kits at bulk reef supply and marine depot. What r you going to keep, your salinity may be a little low depending.

And salinity should I raise to 35ppm?

 

[Juniorh2r]

Welcome to R2R!!! Very nice tank, you can buy salifert and red sea test kits at bulk reef supply and marine depot. What r you going to keep, your salinity may be a little low depending.

Question can you sale things on here I have a aquamaxx smart ato xp and an 11 gallon acrylic red and black reservoir just used it for 2 days

 

[Scotty Buttons]

You can sell things on here in the selling forums but there are a couple rules, I believe you have to be a member for 30 days and have 25 meaningful posts.

 

[Billldg]

Question can you sale things on here I have a aquamaxx smart ato xp and an 11 gallon acrylic red and black reservoir just used it for 2 days

Yes as Scott says, you can on the sales forum.

 

[IslandLifeReef]

Welcome to R2R! It looks like you are dosing a lot of stuff for a new tank. I would raise your salinity to 35 or 36 and just let the tank sit for a while. Stop dosing until the inhabitants need it. Once you turn your skimmer on again, you should see the ph rise.

Patience is the key.

Really nice set-up though.

 

[Juniorh2r]

Welcome to R2R! It looks like you are dosing a lot of stuff for a new tank. I would raise your salinity to 35 or 36 and just let the tank sit for a while. Stop dosing until the inhabitants need it. Once you turn your skimmer on again, you should see the ph rise.

Patience is the key.

Really nice set-up though.

Thanks and the doser is off right now just kind of prepped everything ahead of time. Question theres alot of theorys ln water changes how many water changes should I do a month and how many gallons should I change?? It's a red sea 250 65 gallon

 

[Juniorh2r]

Sorry one

Thanks and the doser is off right now just kind of prepped everything ahead of time. Question theres alot of theorys ln water changes how many water changes should I do a month and how many gallons should I change?? It's a red sea 250 65 gallon.. sorry one more question I have the uv reactor off and gfo reactor off too when should I start using them?

 

[Juniorh2r]

Thanks and the doser is off right now just kind of prepped everything ahead of time. Question theres alot of theorys ln water changes how many water changes should I do a month and how many gallons should I change?? It's a red sea 250 65 gallon

I have the uv reactor off and gfo reactor off too when do you recommend for me to start using either one?

 

[4FordFamily]

Welcome home, you will love it here!

Looks like you’re moving in the right direction — how long does it take your tank to show zero ammonia after ghost feeding or adding ammonia?

 

[Juniorh2r]

To be

Welcome home, you will love it here!

Looks like you’re moving in the right direction — how long does it take your tank to show zero ammonia after ghost feeding or adding ammonia?

Honestly I haven't timed between feeding and testing I would have to see.

 

[bsn_rn_cen]

Welcome to reef2reef.

 

[Juniorh2r]

I have the uv reactor off and gfo reactor off too. when do you recommend for me to start using either one?

 

[SPR1968]

Great looking tank and welcome to R2R!!

 

[IslandLifeReef]

I have the uv reactor off and gfo reactor off too. when do you recommend for me to start using either one?

Wait to start those until your water tests say you need them. Cycling a tank is just the beginning of letting your tank mature. Cycling shows that your tank can process ammonia and nitrite, ammonia being the one that does the most damage to the life in our tanks. But you also need a bacterial foundation to be built in your tank for all of your inhabitants. I would start your skimmer and let it get broken in. Once your tank can process 2 ppm of ammonia in 24 hours, you can start adding a couple of fish and a small CUC. If your phosphates get above 0.1 ppm, I would run the gfo. Otherwise, I would leave that off as well as the uv reactor until your tank says it needs them.

As for water changes, try to change 5%-10% a week. If you want to skip water changes and just dose, people are successful with that, just don't dose something unless you test for it.

 

[Juniorh2r]

Moving along .....

 

[vetteguy53081]

Welcome to the group and buy the best you can afford and timing is good as many Black Friday equipment sales forthcoming.

 

[Juniorh2r]

Thanks. Started on the 19th of October. Is this look how its supposed to so far?

 

[JRAD]

Where can I find them?

Amazon!

 

[IslandLifeReef]

Thanks. Started on the 19th of October. Is this look how its supposed to so far?

It's a very nice tank that looks good so far from the pictures. The real question is what do your water tests look like?

 

[samnaz]

Wait to start those until your water tests say you need them. Cycling a tank is just the beginning of letting your tank mature. Cycling shows that your tank can process ammonia and nitrite, ammonia being the one that does the most damage to the life in our tanks. But you also need a bacterial foundation to be built in your tank for all of your inhabitants. I would start your skimmer and let it get broken in. Once your tank can process 2 ppm of ammonia in 24 hours, you can start adding a couple of fish and a small CUC. If your phosphates get above 0.1 ppm, I would run the gfo. Otherwise, I would leave that off as well as the uv reactor until your tank says it needs them.

As for water changes, try to change 5%-10% a week. If you want to skip water changes and just dose, people are successful with that, just don't dose something unless you test for it.

It's a very nice tank that looks good so far from the pictures. The real question is what do your water tests look like?

+1 all this.

The way the tank appears at this stage is really not a concern because it's just rocks... and there may be toxic levels of ammonia, or maybe zero ammonia, but it'd look the same.

Since your tank is just starting out I'd forget about all the dosing and mechanical and chemical filtration, unless (as stated above) you don't want to do water changes. BUT if I were you I would just start there - get all the necessary test kits, test on a regular basis, and do 10% water changes weekly. IF the parameters need tweaking according to the test results, then is the time to figure out the specifics for gfo, uv, dosing and/or whatever else needs adjusting.