Sorry I know this has been brought up multiple times before…
As I start the researching process for my future tank, am looking into how I would start the cycling process.
When I was last running a tank I did shrimp/ghost feed cycles with live rock. I feel like there’s a lot of different options to start your cycle nowadays.
My lfs has cured live rock (and their tanks look fairly immaculate). I was contemplating doing live rock live sand, but is bottle bacs necessary when in theory the rocks and sand should be seeded already? Is there a need to do ammonia dosing to monitor the cycle or in theory small fish could be added (such as clowns) because this would be essentially moving established rocks to a new tank?
As I start the researching process for my future tank, am looking into how I would start the cycling process.
When I was last running a tank I did shrimp/ghost feed cycles with live rock. I feel like there’s a lot of different options to start your cycle nowadays.
My lfs has cured live rock (and their tanks look fairly immaculate). I was contemplating doing live rock live sand, but is bottle bacs necessary when in theory the rocks and sand should be seeded already? Is there a need to do ammonia dosing to monitor the cycle or in theory small fish could be added (such as clowns) because this would be essentially moving established rocks to a new tank?