Quick Cycle New Tank

[reacclimating 2 the hobby]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacteria-in-a-bottle-myth-or-fact.403226/page-48

 

[mta_morrow]

Thank you all so much for your feedback . Do I need specific bacteria for saltwater fish vs Reef ? Or is it all the same ?

How can I add nutrients to grow the bacteria and keep the Refugium alive ?

Thank you !

The bacteria will live and feed off of ammonia which comes from fish waste and uneaten decomposing food. The bacteria is limited by the waste.

This is why you don’t add a huge bioload all at once as the there may not be enough bacteria to process the ammonia. It will grow to the point where it can handle it and then stay there until you increase or decrease the available ammonia.

That is totally different than the nutrients needed to grow macro algae.

For that you need nitrates and phosphates and perhaps a few other things if you don’t do water changes.

I do not recommend trying to grow macro algae’s so early on as you will most likely not have enough nutrients to support it.

 

[mta_morrow]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacteria-in-a-bottle-myth-or-fact.403226/page-48

This is an excellent thread!

 

[Ronnell]

How is it coming along?

 

[sudman]

How is it coming along?

Thanks for asking !

Tank cycled in about 5 days total but I went on vacation so I never added any fish !

 

[Captain Quint]

This is an excellent thread!

It certainly is my friend. Great minds and years of experience from some of the best aquarists combined and imparted awesome advice. As it should be.

 

[jayscoral420]

Slower is better. Dont rush it or things will go wrong.

But what if I have say 15 to 20lb of live rock with coral on it in a 20gal I'm switching to a 91 and have very Lil established media in sump how will that work

 

[brandon429]

It works like this:

A thread tracking pure skip cycle instant reefs, no bottle bac

This is a testless cycling thread, we don't want ammonia testing here for any job if possible, because we are teaching reefers/readers that moving live rocks system to system does not restart the cycle: many in our community don't understand that rule and feel that any tank being setup simply...

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don’t move any degree of old unrinsed sand to the new tank

use either all new sand, pre rinsed to zero cloud, or rinse your old sand to zero cloud then transfer. You can skip the cycle in the tank transfer and be instantly ready. Every tank in that thread is a skip cycle no delay setup.