cycle

Hey R2R! I’m brand new to the hobby and need some advice because I’ve done all of the things my LFS has suggested and I’m stuck. My first cycling round (65 gallon AIO Red Sea purchased second hand on marketplace.I have my tank stocked with dry rock and live sand.) was a fishless cycle with...

Hey everyone! I’m Darren (37/M/Toronto, eh) and I’m excited to be joining the reefing community! I’ve always been fascinated by the ocean and the incredible ecosystems that thrive within it. After some research and a lot of learning, I’ve finally taken the plunge into the world of reef tanks...

How’s it going! I’m new tot he hobby and my first tank is a Coralife Biocube Jr smart. It says it’s a 14g tank but I can’t only seem to get 10g in it. I used Caribsea live sand with some caribsea aragonite, and 7lbs of caribsea live rock. I filled with imagitarium pacific saltwater, and...

I got a bigger tank with lots of used real Tampa bay, now dry rock. I have a smaller aquarium with about 30lbs of rock that’s been cycling for about 3-4 months, I want to set up the new tank with my 30lbs of rock but I want to use some of the dry rock as well for decoration purposes/ shelves for...

In my previous two tanks, I used Dr. Tim’s One & Only, and both cycled in under two weeks. For my new 120g tank (see post), I started by mixing RODI water with Red Sea Blue Salt, then added 8oz of Dr. Tim’s One & Only, followed by ammonia to bring it to 2ppm. I followed Dr. Tim's instructions...

Hi all, I am not new to saltwater but I am new to sumps. All of my previous tanks have been all in ones and I recently upgraded from my 50 gallon to a Waterbox Marine 110.4 I’ve never had a sump before so this is definitely a learning curve. I’ve been reading not to put bioballs in the sump...

I am currently getting ready to move houses and notice that a few of my fish have ich. Now will be the best time for me to start fresh as I can put the fish in QT and then a holding tank while the display goes fallow. However I have coral, live rock, and inverts that can’t be in the QT tank so...

Ok, so I'm setting up a new fish only 105 litre tank. The tank is filled, I've used dry rock but live sand. After quite a bit of research I decided to do a fish-in cycle using ATM colony bacteria. However, when I got to the LFS the assistant said that I need to cycle my tank for 3-4 weeks...

Hello, I’m starting a new 15 gallon tank. I wanna know if anybody has experience doing a fish in cycle with Dr. Tim’s bacteria. The fish I was going to add would be a hawk fish or pajama cardinal. I also have a good amount of filter media from my 40g tank I can use in the 15g tank. Would the...

Hello folks.. My 25g AIO is on the newer side relatively, but has been mostly stable after an initial cycle. I woke up today and overnight, my tank has exploded with white/clear strands, everywhere and on everything. At first I was worried it was something invasive, looking like individual...

Hey guys so I think my tank is finally cycled everything has dropped to 0 now should I add more of the ammonia from dr tims to 2ppm to see if it will drop to 0 again?

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?

Hey all. On Monday (9/23), I filled my new 47 gallon AIO. I added around 30 pounds of live rock (caribsea life rock from lfs) and 30 pounds of live sand. I added a bottle of Dr. Tim’s One and Only, then dosed ammonia (~80 drops Dr Tim’s ammonium chloride, I know the recommended on the bottle...

Long story short. When I started up my tank, I added too much ammonia because I was misreading my API test kits. I have since switched to Red Sea. Ammonia was sky high, I did about a 1/3 water change. Went away for a week. Came back, ammonia was even higher, Red Sea test came back blue, and...

Hello everyone, I will be documenting the whole process from initial set up over the next year or so. I have not had a reef tank in over 20 years and boy has a lot changed. Any advice or help is greatly appreciated. For now I have purchased the below items Reefer MAX 200 G2+ System 200W...

So I just started up my new tank. As a source of bacteria, I used Ocean Direct Live Sand and Dr. Tim's One and Only for Reef tanks. For ammonia, I used Dr. Tim's Ammonium Chloride. Tank is filled with saltwater at 1.025 specific gravity. Original water is RODI. I added the bacteria and ammonium...

Hello, I’m starting a new 40 gallon tank and I’m wondering if I can use live rock as a source of ammonia so I can add Dr Tim’s one and only nitrifying bacteria. If I can should I add the bacteria immediately?

Hey all, its been 6 months since I shut down my tanks and donated all of my corals and inhabitants along with selling my own home and uprooting my family to move to our paradise! With that being said I think it is fair time to start a new first build in our new home! I have found my passion and...

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Hi guys! Complete newbie to the reefing hobby.. I bought a Red Sea max nano 75ltrs 26 days ago cycled with Red Sea mature starter and everything went well.. brought a water sample to the shop I bought the tank off of and my water was good and cycled for its first CUC.. I got two shrimp and a...

Hi guys! Complete newbie to the reefing hobby.. I bought a Red Sea max nano 75ltrs 26 days ago cycled with Red Sea mature starter and everything went well.. brought a water sample to the shop I bought the tank off of and my water was good and cycled for its first CUC.. I got two shrimp and a...

I was just wondering if anyone has cultured their phyto under 24/7 light. I’ve seen the average light cycles people use is 12-12 or 16 on - 8 off. It’s not essential to turn off lights for some terrestrial plants although it can be beneficial for the substrate biomes I’ve read. But that’s...

Hi all, new here. I need some help from people that know what they are doing. Im on day 7 of the cycle for my tank ( Fluval evo 62L ) Im doing a fishless cycle ( Fritz ammonia and turbo start 9 ) on day 2 the ammonia went up 6ppm + and Nitrite was 2.0ppm and Nirrate was 2.0ppm. On day 5...