Thanks alot!!@MnFish1 @brandon429 thank you both for your very kind words. But more importantly, thank you for your contributions to the community - it’s how I’ve been able to do this well so far!
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Thanks alot!!@MnFish1 @brandon429 thank you both for your very kind words. But more importantly, thank you for your contributions to the community - it’s how I’ve been able to do this well so far!
BTW - I think it's because - you have lots of coral covering most of the lit surfaces. So - you could be right - but the biodiversity is not bacterial - rather coral that is shading most of the tank from getting a Dino colony established - especially if you're going adequate maintenance (which by the pictures you are doing a great job)I believe this is due to the great level of biodiversity that was present in the tank due to the live rock.
@Lasse has probably forgotten more about nitrifying bacteria than I know, so I’ll let him chime in on how long it would take to get from early exponential phase (red) to transitional phase (green), but in my experience, it is probably less than a week.
Thanks Lasse.The normal double time for NOB (Nitrite Oxidizing Bacteria) is normally calculated to be around 13 hours in lab (if you not adding any bacteria). If we start with one cell - Day 1 will end up with 2 cells, day2 with 8, day 3 with 32, Day 4 with 128, Day 5 with 512, Day 6 with 2048, day 7 with 8192 and so on
I would say that it takes around 2 weeks to pass the exponential phase at unlimited growth and look at the graph below - most growth is day 13 and 14. This graph can give us an idea about the often seen "switch effect" regarding the breakdown of nitrite to nitrate in an initial stage. From high to low can usually be seen in a single day. Almost as it was digital. The curve below shows that the effect is analogous but due to the exponential nature of the growth it looks like it is off/on. Everything happens on day 13 and 14
Sincerely Lasse
Which is why many companies claim to 'allow' fish and bacteria on day 1. Correct? Or in part correct?The time scale in the graph is only valid if you start with very few NOB. If you add extra (bottle, sand, living rocks or whatever containing NOB) and balance population and load - you have it working in very few days. In my example - around 150,000,000 bacteria cells exist day 14 - let us say that is enough to reach your plateau - load and consumption equilibrium. If you add this population day 1 - you are already on the plateau.
Sincerely Lasse
Build Thread - 1.1 Gallon Oceanbox P1-G Pico Reef
Starting overdue build thread :) I am the second owner, and am fortunate to have such a cool tank with some useful upgrades The tank with Reefbreeders Pico V2 15w LED Stand is usable space Custom made gravity ato Custom made lid + cooling fan 3 section Media rackwww.reef2reef.com
adding to our collection of skip cycle reefs. well done micro pico setup there, we are collecting more of those lately with Ben's addition and now @VintageReefer excellent micro setup. these are the kinds of reefs I like to keep, glad to see new collection building here. Vintage didn't use live rock transfer, he skip cycled with sand transfer from an existing tank, that's a different approach but it still brings in bacteria for sure. coral loading and a few inverts isn't much loading, then again a one gallon reef will never carry much loading in it's entire life arc so what we start with doesn't matter all that much.
I like how quickly you've stocked it up with happy/extended corals it's looking great, can u imagine how strong it'll be by June
weathers power outages 36 hours easy on a jackery 500 watt battery backup for sure.
From the sea. I live near the sea. So I still should cycle with that much?if it is coming from a pet store's holding tank labeled live or another reef tank then get twice that much. be prepared to pay well for enough live rock for a large tank but it's worth it. that degree shown above would easily carry two clownfish, for example if you placed it dead center in the display but get much more than that. don't skimp on live rock that's cured and available. get more