cycle help

Curious to how many people use AI (CGPT/Gemini/CoPilot) to assist with dialing water parameters or help with cycling tanks. I'm using Gemini and feel its providing acceptable guidance and understanding as to what's happening when I perform testing during my new tank cycle. I've prompted it to...

Hi, I have recently purchased and begun to construct a hello reef 15 gallon clownfish and anemone tank. I began cycling the tank about a week and a half ago and used the dr Tim’s one and only nitrifying bacteria and used ghost feeding as my source of ammonia with the included fish food. I have...

Hi Everyone! I am getting back into reefing now that I am in a more stable environment. I truly missed the hobby and I am excited to get my 25g AIO back up and running. My partner is also interested in learning about and helping with the tank so I thought I would record our progress here and...

Cycling a new 86 gallon display 28 gallon sump 114 gallons total tank. Using aqua forest hybrid pro salt, live sand, dry rock, polyp lab genesis rock and genesis bacteria, and dr Tim’s one and only. My ammonia hasn’t gotten above 0.05 even with adding 4 drops per gallon a total of 365 drops...

LFS came and filled it today! Running well! Clearing up and will be adding beneficial bacteria tonight. Suggestions: - lights (GSP, RBTA, ZOA) coral able. - skimmer (140+ sump). - any ideas! ATO, RODI, etc.

Hey everyone, When I first started this tank about nine months ago, I made what I now know was a rookie mistake — I went with ultra-fine sand for my substrate. At the time, I didn’t realize how much trouble that choice would cause down the road. Now I’m dealing with a few ongoing issues that...

While I'm setting up my main tank I want to start QTing some fish (firefish and royal gramma) so I've set up a 20 gallon tank with 6 lbs of live rock that I bought from the fish store (they had it in the tanks and it looked good so I went with it and it was pest free). I started last Sunday with...

Hi all, Thanks in advance. 30 gallon tank, cycle started 3 days ago with LFS supplied Nitrifying Bacteria (no brand, they have a culture themselves in store) and Fishless Fuel Ammonia Solution from Fritz. I don't have live rock or sand, its just basic stuff all around. Once I had the water...

I’m brand new to keeping saltwater, did lots of research before fully committing. 125l tank has been set up for approx 25 days but have been doing the fishless cycle with dr Tim’s for 21 days. Used live sand,and life rock to start with. 7 days ago my live rock arrived so that’s also in the tank...

So I have a Fluval Evo 13 with a damsel and some corals. I finished the nitrogen cycle a few weeks ago. I did a 100% water change when I got the nitrate spike (around 160ppm), next day added a fish and coral. It's been around 40 ppm or higher since. I've been feeding 1/6th of a brine shrimp cube...

Hello, I'm new to reef keeping and have run into an issue. If I need to be more patient please let me know. I'm building a nano 13.5g and started the cycle a week 1/2 ago. I'm using the Dr Tims method with the ammonium chloride and nitrifying bacteria in a bottle. However, my ammonia has been...

so I’m on the 11th day of my cycle, I started seeing some detritus a few days ago so I added 3 red legged (Cortez?) hermit crabs, 2 blue legged hermit crabs, 2 Halloween hermit crabs, 1 astrea snail, and a clownfish I was given (unfortunately because I really wanted to have 2 but what can you do...

I’m seeking advice to help us address some challenges we’ve encountered while progressing with a fellow reefer’s tank. They are relatively new to the hobby, and I’m currently assisting with their tank maintenance to ensure it thrives and matures. However, we’ve encountered a few issues, and I...

Long story short, I replaced my old tank almost two weeks ago, I was assisted by my local fish shop guy who helped me move across my rock work, replaced the sand and used some of the old water ( we didnt want to use too much since my nitrates were sky high due to the use of a canister filter for...

Here are my test on day 15 used dr tims one and only and it’s ammonia source just wanted some others opinion on how it’s doing

Hello I’ve been cycling my 40 gallon tank for more than 2 weeks. My ammonia has been around 0.25 for the past few days while my nitrite has been 0. My nitrates is 2.5 and it’s slowly going up 0.1-0.3 everyday. Is my tank ready for fish and should I do a water change?

Hello all, I just placed an order and am planning on building with the below items. Any advice or help is appreciated. Reefer MAX 200 G2 system AIO 200w titanium heater with inkbird 40 Lbs LifeRock Dry Live Rock - CaribSea 20 lbs Special Grade Arag-Alive caribsea dr tims one and only/...

Month into fishless cycle and still have .2 nitrite, nitrate is at 30 and ammonia is gone or minimal. Using a tropic marin test kit. Tank was started with live sand but dry rock. Using microbacter7 as instructions read but I feel like this is taking longer than it should. Nitrite has been stuck...

So earlier today I used some cured dry rock and some new pieces that had been in my 2 month old tank that were wet and made an aquascape. 1: Should I worry about a big die off ammonia spike ? I used a cheaper concrete alternative to E Marco 400 concrete . I used the cement on 2 places and rest...

Need cycling advice. Cycling a 30 gal tank, live sand/dry rock. Salinity 1.019, Temp 81, PH 7.9-8.0 I am on DAY 6 of Dr Tims fishless cycle. I am an expierenced fresh water aquarist and have always done "fish in" cycle before but decided to try this out. Tonight my NH3 was .25 down from 1.0 from...

Hey. I made an embarrassing mistake. When I put in my new heater for my reef tank, I somehow forgot to put the temperature reading gauge in the tank to monitor the temp and base the heat off the gauge. Therefore my heater was constantly heating up and my tank ended up at 96°F… Thank god I was...

Hello to make a long story short my 50 gallon aquarium broke during moving. I have a 90 gallon that I'm trying to move everything into as soon as possible. I have 40 gallons of water from the previous tank as well as about 80lbs of live rock and a very large amount of sand from the previous...

Hello everyone. I would like to ask a question about the cycling of my tank. It has been running for two weeks, and I bought live rock from the local aquarium store. For the first ten days, the NH3 level was 0 and NO2 was 0.1. Last Friday, I removed the live rock from the tank for aquascaping...

Hey all! New to this group and so far I’ve already found a wealth of information. We got a marine fish tank 120L it’s the AQUA ONE MINIREEF 120 AQUARIUM & CABINET - WHITE We got it it Sunday (yesterday) did some research before getting it, but that was mainly on the set up of the tank itself...

Looking for some advice here, first timer. Used Fritz turbo start900 along with the fishless fuel ammonia. Added a double dose of bacteria and the recommended 5ml of ammonia for my 25g tank 6 days ago. I have an Ammonia alert on the inside of the tank but the ammonia never reached the 2ppm that...