Good afternoon,
I feel like I should be considered a "new" reefer- I have been studying and reading and watching videos for years but only recently set up my first tank. It was a 20-gallon Tideline AIO. It has been running since May of this year (2022). I have an emerald crab, two peppermint shrimp, two trochus snails, two nessarius snails (I think, I almost never see them lol) and two clownfish. Everything's fine, except...I want more I plan on using this 20 -gallon as my quarantine tank from now on.
So, I am upgrading to a 125-gallon, 4-foot tank. Got it installed, plumbed the sump, filled with RODI water. I used the RedSea Reef Mature kit last time and I didn't really like it, so I'm trying Dr. Tim's One and Only this go around. One if his videos said to keep the salinity lower and the temp higher so that the bacteria will colonize quicker, so salinity is only at like 18ppm and sitting around 80 degrees. I have a question, and I'm sorry if this is kind of dumb lol:
If I move half of the rock from the 20-gallon into the 125, will that help the cycle, or will it just overload the bacteria on the rock? I don't want to give them too much to do. I know that if there is too much nitrite released by the ammonia oxidizing bacteria, the nitrifying bacteria can be killed and stall the cycle, so I guess I'm just worried about overdoing by sticking this puny rock into such a large tank.
I feel like I should be considered a "new" reefer- I have been studying and reading and watching videos for years but only recently set up my first tank. It was a 20-gallon Tideline AIO. It has been running since May of this year (2022). I have an emerald crab, two peppermint shrimp, two trochus snails, two nessarius snails (I think, I almost never see them lol) and two clownfish. Everything's fine, except...I want more I plan on using this 20 -gallon as my quarantine tank from now on.
So, I am upgrading to a 125-gallon, 4-foot tank. Got it installed, plumbed the sump, filled with RODI water. I used the RedSea Reef Mature kit last time and I didn't really like it, so I'm trying Dr. Tim's One and Only this go around. One if his videos said to keep the salinity lower and the temp higher so that the bacteria will colonize quicker, so salinity is only at like 18ppm and sitting around 80 degrees. I have a question, and I'm sorry if this is kind of dumb lol:
If I move half of the rock from the 20-gallon into the 125, will that help the cycle, or will it just overload the bacteria on the rock? I don't want to give them too much to do. I know that if there is too much nitrite released by the ammonia oxidizing bacteria, the nitrifying bacteria can be killed and stall the cycle, so I guess I'm just worried about overdoing by sticking this puny rock into such a large tank.
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