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Purchased Red Sea Max Nano aquarium. Started cycle 4 days ago. Using Red Sea Reef Mature Starter Kit. Used live sand and two large live rocks from LFS. On day 4, Ammonia 0; Nitrite 0; Nitrate 5. Seems to me it is cycled. If so, do I continue the cycle recipe in the Ref Mature manual? Or...

I’m about 2 weeks in to my cycle that started by dosing 1ppm ammonium chloride and used Dr tim’s one and only bacteria. when ammonia dropped to 0.25 each time i redosed ammonia waiting until it got broken down fully in 24 hours. My nitrite started to rise on day 2 and continued to (my salifert...

Hey everyone, I am cycling my first saltwater aquarium. My tag is a 35 gallon cube tank. I have a hang on the back filter. It has been cycling for about a week now I have live rock and live sand in the aquarium. I purchased Turbo start 900 and was wondering if it is too late to put the turbo...

I have a Red Sea aquarium that has blown two back wall pumps and is generally old. So I am planning on ordering a waterbox infinia frag tank. Not a major upgrade on the size just an additional 40-50 gallons I’m not sure exactly what the Red Sea is. (Maybe 130 total volume) waterbox will be...

Hey fam! So I’ve cycled many tanks and this is the first time that I’ve cycled using ammonium chloride and Dr Tim’s… not sure if this is because of it but my tank is cloudy and has a white powdering kind of substance on glass walls and pump as shown in the pics. I know a bacterial bloom but...

I got some Aquaforest dry rock last week and created an aquascape. I have had it cycling in a brute for about 5 days with some already “live rock” from my tank and tank water. I also added Fritz Turbo 900, and I was wondering how much longer should I wait to add the rock into the tank? I will...

Hello i have been cycling my tank for 2 weeks now and my levels have been like this for about a week i upped water temperature to 86 because i heard that is speeds up the process about 4 days ago and nothing has happened. it also might be important that i did dry rock and dry sand because I...

My 150g has been cycling for about 6 weeks and algae growth has been showing for about a week and a half, am I ready to start adding fish and coral? If not how long should I wait more? Parameters below: Salinity:1.025 Ph:8.0 Ammonia:0ppm Nitrate:0ppm Nitrite:0ppm Calcium:400ppm Phosphate:0ppm...

Hello all, I am new to saltwater. I have had freshwater before but it has been a very long time. I just got a Fluval 13.5 Evo and I added water, live sand, and live rock from a local trusted distributor and I was going to attempt to perform a fishless cycle but family wanted to watch...

Hey. Im wondering. Can i rip out all the live rock in My tank to clean and avoid a new cycle. My tank has been struggeling real bad, and now the rocks are just covered in buble alge. So What Im thinking is ripping them out, taking all the corals of, and clean the rocks one by one

I am a new reefer and have had my tank for 6 days. I started cycling it with half live rock half dry rock, after two days I added a clown per my local fish store, he is doing great. About 4 days in I noticed this growing on my live rock but none of the pictures I see look like it. Over the last...

I’m building a max nano cause a buddy just had it sitting in his garage, no real spacific plans with it, got a little nano sump built and plumbed in. Since Iv just been doing this on free time here and there nothing about it has been urgent. I have some dry live rock I’m gonna put in it. I have...

Hello Reefers, I have been cycling my new aquarium 260 gallons for a week and a half after adding turbo start 900 and some rocks from my old system. Today I made a nitrate test and found 1.2 ppm. I have 3 little fish in there swimming happily and eating a lot. I am upgrading my 110-gallon tank...

Hi guys, This is my first post ever :oops: sorry for any dumb questions! I am new to Reef World and I've started my first cycle in a blue marine 30g tank with a back AIO sump. I've bought the Red Sea Mature Starter Kit and I've been following the day-by-day guide. Right now I am on Day 10...

I'm cycling a new nano tank (IM Fusion 20 Gallon), and I got a pack of Seaside Aquatics ceramic bio-spheres from BRS to put in the back of the AIO. The spheres just come in a mesh media bag from BRS tossed in cardboard shipping box. The media bag was in tatters too with holes ripped (or chewed)...

I'm looking to set up my QT, I have a spare 15g AIO that was given to me figured perfect tank to use for QT. I've read you don't need to cycle a QT tank but have to really be on your game for water changes, how often would I be expected to do water changes if I didn't cycle it? I currently...

Hey guys, I have a 25-gallon reef tank with a few corals. It has been running for over a year now. I don't like my aquascape. Doesn't give me great options for placing corals. I wanna completely replace the rock that I have with new pieces. They will most likely be dead rock. Non alive rock...

Hi Everyone i plan on using the Dr Tim's Method to kick off the cycle in my new tank in a few saturdays which im really excited about! according to the instructions on day 9 it says to add fish but unfortunatly i wont be able to get to my LFS to get my first fish. If i waited until day 15 to...

Hello reefers, After 1 year in hobby I finally spent some money for a minor upgrade, from 12G nano to 25G shallow nano. I have a few questions. 1. I want to change scape, I never liked scape in my tank. I will be getting some new ceramic rocks with different shape. How do I make sure I don't...

Hey folks! I'm going through my first cycle in my 250L tank and I decided to use the Red Sea Mature Pro to get things going, but actually this seems to have over-complicated things and now I'm a bit lost.. I had been dosing according to the instruction manual and on day 10 the expected...

I’m new to salt water tanks and forums so I apologize if I’m asking this for the 1000th time, set up this tank two weeks ago using live sand and rock. This yellow stuff showed up practically overnight. I just got the test strips but my alkalinity and hardness are too high, everything else is...

I set up a 28 gallon nano cube 7 days ago. I’m using cured live rock, live sand, water from lfs, and used ceramic disks that were in the tanks at my lfs. I added live bacteria and a damsel 1 day after setup. I’ve been testing everyday for ammonia and there hasn’t been any present. Is it possible...

Last year I started with a 17g nano system (first reef tank :) ), It's been a year, and the tank is thriving with a pair of clownfish, a cleaning shrimp, a BTA, some hammer corals, and a few soft corals happily residing in it. Now, I believe it's time for me to step up to a larger system, and...

Hello all, hope everyone's doing swell! I just started cycling up a nano reef; it's my first dive back into the hobby in 11 years. Some background about the setup: 14gal cube with 15 lbs CaribSea Life Rock, 20lbs CaribSea Arag-Alive Special Grade Substrate, Aquaclear 50 HOB filter, AutoAqua...

Just moved and have had my fish in holding for a month at a lfs. Finally was able to get my tank set up yesterday. Need to get my fish out of holding because they’re charging me an arm and a leg. What’s the best way to ensure success if I want to add them in a week. I’ve added used/established...