cycling dry rock

im currently extremely confused i have been cycling dry rock in a bin using bottled bacteria till i had my tank set up and ready to go and initially did tests watching the ammonia go down and the nitrites go up it has been running for about a month now and i just did a test and my ammonia was...

Hey guys hope everyones well. Been a few years but decided to come back. Needed a little advise please. So I had a 350 ltr corner tank that was running really well with a drum for sump but due to a silly fall off a ladder and absolutely shattering my wrist after several surgeries I have 30%...

Hey everybody So im going to detail here my first build and most of all my cycling process with the seneye sensor. Im at my first salwater experiment but have been for close to 20 years into freshwater. This is the 3rd time i am using ammonium chloride to start a cycle in a tank and as im...

This is weirding me out a lot because the tank is taking forever to cycle, and now I'm getting these growths out of nowhere. I've been cycling a barebottom tank with dry rock from Aquaforest for weeks now. I used Bightwell Microbacter Start XLM with Brightwell Microbacter QuickCycl (Ammonium...

Hi, I’m new to the saltwater hobby and almost a month in.I started a tank (20 gallon) with fish in and bottled nitrifying bacteria with a dry rock and rinsed sand. I had some question regarding the cycling process for my tank I did a lot of research but I’m still puzzled so I started my tank...

Ryan from Bulk Reef Supply has been posting updates on his take-it-slow approach with cycling his new 360 gallon SPS tank. Lots of interesting points in his 6-month update (below), but a couple things I'd love to hear opinions on from more experienced reefers (I'm just getting started myself)...

I purchased live rock and unknowingly it came with a baby bubble tip nem. My tank is about a week old and not established at all. The nem isn’t doing so well and only comes out when the lights are off sometimes. What do i do?

So I've been out of the hobby for a few years, about 6, because I started working out of the country and haven't been home more than about a month every year. That might end within a year or so though well see, I'm a little tired of it. In this time I've had a home built and I'm about to finish...