1000 litre New tank cycling log and updates

[Zer01thousand]

Evening all. I’ve been prawn/shrimp cycling my newest aquarium addition for nearly 2 weeks now. Today I added another 20kg shipment of live rock and have just found I have got more than I payed for.... sniggers
anyways here is my log of cycling and additions along the way.


New Tank
Day 3
Live rock added

Ph 8.2
Ammonia 0.35
Nitrite 0.35
Nitrate 7.0

Salt 28

Ph3
Ammonia .50
Nitrite .50
Nitrate 15
Removed prawn

Day 4 re added prawn
Ph 8.2
Ammonia .50
Nitrite 0.35
Nitrate 10

Ammonia 1.0
Nitrite 0.75
Nitrate 2.5

Day 5
Ph 8.2
Ammonia 1.0
Nitrite 0.50
Nitrate 15

Ammonia 2.0
Nitrite 0.75
Nitrate 30

Day 6
Ammonia 2.0
Nitrite 1
Nitrate 20

Added live rock 15kg

Ammonia 2.5
Nitrite .50
Nitrate 30

Added skimmer (not on)

Day 7
Ammonia 2.0
Nitrite 0.75
Nitrate 30

Added dead fish
Ammonia 3.0
Nitrite 1.0
Nitrate 30

Day 8
Ammonia 3.0
Nitrite 0.50
Nitrate 20

Remove prawns and dead fish
Ammonia 4.0
Nitrite 1.0
Nitrate 30
12.00pm Sunday

Ammonia 3.0
Nitrite 0.75
Nitrate 30

Ammonia 4.0
Nitrite 0.35
Nitrate 30

Day 9

Ammonia 3.0
Nitrite 0.75
Nitrate 30

Ammonia 3.0
Nitrite 0.75
Nitrate 20

Day 10

Ammonia 2.0
Nitrite 1
Nitrate 30

Added stability
And 3 litres of ceramic media

6:30 test

Ammonia 2.0
Nitrite .25
Nitrate .25

Day 11

Ammonia 2.0
Nitrite 0.50
Nitrate 0.25

Added stability at 1
Added 20kg of live rock

3:30pm test

Ammonia 1.0
Nitrite 0.25
Nitrate 5.0

The cycling started with media from one of my cycled tanks and water change waters over a 2 week period and 15kg of live rock.
Dosed the tank with some seachem stability and the numbers started.

Today around mid morning I had my third shipment of Live rock arrive. Upon opening I spotted two 6mm crabs. An hour after putting the rock into water I noticed I had 1 anemones one purple mushroom looking frag a white coral spike (excuse the lack of knowledge) one brown worm (peanut worm) some bristle worms Most if not all are well known for live rock hitch hiking.
So I do have some visible creatures in my tank. Waiting for the drop before I add some pure ammonia to see if the cycle is ready.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Nice! Got some good hitchhikers in that rock. Welcome to R2R!

 

[Zer01thousand]

Excuse the tanks outer appearance no use cleaning whilst I’m yet to scape it.
Some of the inhabitants.

 

[Zer01thousand]

Water check soon, new fish for one of our other tanks today and live rock for my big tank. On a side note I am looking for recommendations on wifi app controllable led light setup to suit 7ft long tank, coral spectrum any ideas? Currently have 2x zetlights 3yrs old