Here is my plan please critique or add any comments. Love to hear ideas. Here is mine.
This is dry rock from a previous setup. The Rock sat in a dry aquarium in a basement. To get the dust off I put it in a plastic barrel and ran freshwater with a high flow pump to help loosen dust and dirt from the rock. I am going to remove all the water in a week or so. Then add fresh rodi salt water. I will add a shrimp to start the nitrogen cycle. I will test until I get nitrates. At that point I will remove shrimp and ghost feed from this point on every other day. After about 2 weeks I will start dosing microfactor 7 to get bacteria diversity. At this point I might add a damsel or 2 just to get the build up of bacteria. I also heard fish release ammonia out of there gills so this will aid in the nitrogen cycle. I will be setting up the tank after our remodel of the house in July. Please let me know if you feel I need to do something different or add to the plan... thanks in advance.
This is dry rock from a previous setup. The Rock sat in a dry aquarium in a basement. To get the dust off I put it in a plastic barrel and ran freshwater with a high flow pump to help loosen dust and dirt from the rock. I am going to remove all the water in a week or so. Then add fresh rodi salt water. I will add a shrimp to start the nitrogen cycle. I will test until I get nitrates. At that point I will remove shrimp and ghost feed from this point on every other day. After about 2 weeks I will start dosing microfactor 7 to get bacteria diversity. At this point I might add a damsel or 2 just to get the build up of bacteria. I also heard fish release ammonia out of there gills so this will aid in the nitrogen cycle. I will be setting up the tank after our remodel of the house in July. Please let me know if you feel I need to do something different or add to the plan... thanks in advance.