Whats the best way to cycle a New Marine Setup ??? I have a 120 G Main display Tank and a 60 G sump setup.
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Okay,.. should i start the ammonia cycle by adding flakes or should i use use Micro bacter ??The best way is to buy fully cured, live rock from a pet store and bring it home, it's ready. It doesn't matter that it's expensive, it's the best way to cycle
Dry rock cycling, cheap, comes with pure problems mostly. Go with the expensive, best way because that's the best forecast for the new reef.
Don't order the live rock from the ocean, get it from a pet store and pay well for it.
I have no source for that. I had to go with cured dry rock. I used the fishless method. Wont deny the things said except no hair algae. If you want a copy of this method which was written by someone else I will scan and forward. I have no input to the aboveThe best way is to buy fully cured, live rock from a pet store and bring it home, it's ready. It doesn't matter that it's expensive, it's the best way to cycle
Dry rock cycling, cheap, comes with pure problems mostly. Go with the expensive, best way because that's the best forecast for the new reef.
Don't order the live rock from the ocean, get it from a pet store and pay well for it.
If you want to do the cheap way, dry rocks with nine months of dinos and hair algae coming, then you just buy one bottle of any cycling bacteria, add an eighth of the bottle to the tank, put in one ground up pinch of fish food for carbon energy, wait ten days and it's cycled: testing for nothing. Ten days is the count, then begin reefing.
In either setting, we weren't testing for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate because those have already been worked out in the timing and sourcing above.
10000% of all funds avoided at the start by choosing cheap dry rock to cycle will be charged as you fight dinos and tank uglies for one year or more, see anyone's 100+ gallon dry rock startup. Pay up front, save a headache.
I know you're going to choose dry rock for cost, but that cost is coming back threefold it just doesn't seem that way now. It will in September.