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I think there is plenty of evidence that just adding fish to a bucket with sand a heater and water flow is not successful (from the early days of reefing), right?JCM that's very neat to see because everyone fears non curing
@MnFish1 you called that the other day, that this detailed curing may not be required. he's paid for a boatload of great bacteria and uptake organisms on that rock, apparently it works for some like you said.
JCM its neat that even if you had some loss/curing it wasn't enough to overcome the natural surface area and abilities of the paid for bac and active live rock. Very nice to hear, post pics/clean water means a lot to our assessments here since we really only like to see seneye data. api will wreck our entire thread with mistrust lol
Neon I think you'll have fun with that machine after its tuned, I really do. In my opinion these are the leftover questions the hobby has no answer for, and that expenditure can indeed answer:
-actual toxicity level of nh3 to a common turbo snail. and a cerith. subject them to 2 ppm sustained nh3 in a non cycled test tank and see if they live overnite. This data can help ten thousand stuck cycle panic posts breathe easy, not go adding ten different strains of bottle bac/o2 saps into the water as a reaction to non seneye testing. we want to know if a common CUC member set can be a true indicator of cycle status
-how fast does a truly unassisted marine cycle establish. I think this is best way:
two five gallon buckets saltwater, heater, pump no light needed. ambient room light is fine.
dose nothing
no feed.
test one bucket for 1 ppm oxidation movement ability on month 1
the other again on month 2 to reinforce the other seneye finding that tanks can self cycle in sixty days with no help from us.
-we'd like to see tests on surface area removal
so in the home depot bucket reef add a little activated sand to the bottom, some rocks, heater pump and clean water and a real bioload this time, maybe some chromis and some snails run for a few days on seneye to get a performance baseline, and have a few fish we want a stronger vs weaker bioload test.
be removing rocks...how many do you have to pull to get the nh3 to rise uncontrollably
Hey those rocks look perfect that coral would not open at all if the water was imperfect regarding burning nh3
the water couldn’t be clearer it’s perfect as is.