Quick Cycle New Tank
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mta_morrow
Of course I have room for 1 more fish!
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
Of course I have room for 1 more fish!
This is an excellent thread!
Captain Quint
Plank Owner of the Orca
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
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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
It works like this:
www.reef2reef.com
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.
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...
www.reef2reef.com
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.
