Tank cycled??

Torresj9 · Mar 25, 2016

Ahhhhhh okay I see!!
Well I kinda do the digestion test so what I'm going to try to do is see if my lfs can hold my live stock for couple weeks and try it out.
Also would you recommend putting a skimmer now??
I bought the coralife skimmer 65 and didn't like it so I just purchased the reef octopus bh 1000.. Would you recommend that skimmer?

brandon429 · Mar 25, 2016

Great ideas yes on skimmer. Since you have few animals they can be held elsewhere good call. Takes only a day or two to know. Predictably it will be able to digest ammonia to a small degree because of the live sand you used primarily, and the little the rocks have cycled secondarily.

Torresj9 · Mar 25, 2016

Is there a thread where I can see or show me how to do it???

brandon429 · Mar 25, 2016

Yep it's post #6 in the cycling thread linked

Score that ammonia shown, a salifert ammonia test and it's easy to run the digestion test within one day. If it doesn't pass 2 ppm in 24 hours it means don't up your bioload with fish until it can.

Torresj9 · Mar 25, 2016

Okay awesome thanks!! I'll be doing it this weekend then

ReeferBob · Mar 25, 2016

Did you start with RO/DI water? Seems pretty quick for that amount of algae to appear. Tank is probably cycled though after a month.

Torresj9 · Mar 25, 2016

Yup I did start with RO/DI water and Also when I first set the tank up I added 10lbs of live cured rock and rest was dead rock it was stored for a while.

FlyinBryan · Mar 25, 2016

Take your time. Successful reefers are very patient. Take a few few more weeks, just kinda walk away from the tank. Let it do its thing. I cycle my tanks 45 days. Its hard as new reefer but totally worth it.