- Joined
- Jun 20, 2019
- Messages
- 11
- Reaction score
- 9
I appologize for my bad english to start with.
So.
I started my tank(2ns hand tank) last wednesday, I had loverocks from the same aquarium, I fully flushed the tank with tap water and cleaned it with sponge, tank sat dry for 24 hours. While liverock was out of the water, I used morter cement to make a rockscape, let the rocks out of water for almost 24 hours if not more, I put the rock in the tank, filled the tank with tap water, barebottom, put 4 pump in the tank and let them run at max in random directions for 2 hours, stopped the pumps, cyphoned out all the debris and 100% of the water, I put my rinsed dry aroganite sand in the tank, filled it with saltwater. I kept the salinity around 1.020 for 2 days, took some water out(around 10 gallons), replaced it with new salt mix with high salinity to bring tank Salinity to 1.024, tank has been running for few days. Skimmer off, I refugium or anything. Just return pump and wavemakers. I've been testing parameters for the past 2 days, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, nitrates are around 0.25.
I've also added some fish to the tank immediately, following Dr. Tims advise on keeping ammonia and 5ppm to cycle tank faster with fishes(or that's what I understood from it)
So the question is, did the bacteria in the liverocks survived all this?! Which is why my tank parameters are of a cycled tank, or am I missing something?! Could it take longer for ammonia and nitrite to actually show up?! Note that I've been throwing fish food in the tank from first day I filled it with water. Sorry for the long read, just couldn't find an answer anywhere.
Red Sea Reefer 425xl
So.
I started my tank(2ns hand tank) last wednesday, I had loverocks from the same aquarium, I fully flushed the tank with tap water and cleaned it with sponge, tank sat dry for 24 hours. While liverock was out of the water, I used morter cement to make a rockscape, let the rocks out of water for almost 24 hours if not more, I put the rock in the tank, filled the tank with tap water, barebottom, put 4 pump in the tank and let them run at max in random directions for 2 hours, stopped the pumps, cyphoned out all the debris and 100% of the water, I put my rinsed dry aroganite sand in the tank, filled it with saltwater. I kept the salinity around 1.020 for 2 days, took some water out(around 10 gallons), replaced it with new salt mix with high salinity to bring tank Salinity to 1.024, tank has been running for few days. Skimmer off, I refugium or anything. Just return pump and wavemakers. I've been testing parameters for the past 2 days, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, nitrates are around 0.25.
I've also added some fish to the tank immediately, following Dr. Tims advise on keeping ammonia and 5ppm to cycle tank faster with fishes(or that's what I understood from it)
So the question is, did the bacteria in the liverocks survived all this?! Which is why my tank parameters are of a cycled tank, or am I missing something?! Could it take longer for ammonia and nitrite to actually show up?! Note that I've been throwing fish food in the tank from first day I filled it with water. Sorry for the long read, just couldn't find an answer anywhere.
Red Sea Reefer 425xl