Welcome to R2R, really nice nano tank! Yes it's going through the uglies but that will go away.
Looking forward to seeing more.!
Looking forward to seeing more.!
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I dig the rock scape, man! And welcome to the new tank uglies! Haha. Hopefully they don't last too long for you.
I'd wait until your ammonia levels read absolute zero and then add the first members of your clean up crew. The low reading that you have probably wouldn't affect them, but better to wait than lose livestock. I used the Red Sea reef mature program on my new tank, and based on my water testing it suggested adding the clean up crew about a week and a half too early. Pretty sure those date recommendations are based on using already established live rock as your biological filter rather than dry rock. If I were in your position I'd go with a couple of trochus snails for the glass/rocks, a few nassarius snails to start stirring your sand a bit, and a few hermits to start with.
And, yes...that AI Prime will absolutely let you grow SPS when you're ready for them. My montipora and stylophora both LOVE that light and grow like absolute weeds.
Nice scape.
I run a 55 litre with a rear section.
That puts out 600 lph through the back section plus I have a Sicce 2000 lph powerhead, I would suggest seriously thinking about more flow.
I have since the start of this thread updated to a Jaebo SW-4 which is pulsing on about half it's max power, you think it needs more than this? Flow isn't something I'm fully aware on correctly how to do tbh, advice on this would be muchly appreciated.
You need to have surface agitation and be just short of your sand moving, I would raise the output a bit.
Doesn't really look like cyanobacteria to me from what I can see in those pics. Just looks like regular new tank algae to me. If you think it is, check out this thread which was super helpful for me when I thought I had cyano. Has a simple test you can do to confirm if it's cyano or something else. Turns out mine was spirulina algae rather than cyano, and a standard dose of chemiclean cleared it right up and I've had no issues since.So I've since found out this is actually cyanobacteria and omg has it gone rampant! I've done my water tests and everything seems to be in the desired ranges now so I'm a little confused on how this has happened? Is it a normal stage of the tank uglies or have I potentially done something wrong? I'm aware of staying on top of my water changes, I'm doing around 20% every week and yes I use RO/DI water, the salt I'm using is the Red Sea blue bucket for anyone new to the thread. Does anyone have any advice on this for me? Something I can do to eliminate it? Should it slowly disperse on it's own with suctioning and water changes?