First saltwater tank and help understanding everything I am going to encounter

[nick_rsa]

Good Day everyoone.

hope everyone is well, I have decided to start the journey of a marine tank after keeping a brackish tank stable and healthy for around a year now. I managed to get my self an IM Nuvo 30 with the AIO in the back, it started running a few days shy of 3 weeks and I have used Seachem stability as recommended.

tonight i will test the water and level with A Red Sea test kit, but I a, quite confused as I have read various posts on the false ammonia levels. Once I have done the test I will post pictures of the results hopefully to get an idea of the tank is fish ready yet or to still wait.

thanks for all the help coming in the future with the new project.

 

[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[JL15219]

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[|Frank|]

Welcome to R2R!! This playlist helped me a lot:
Also search this forum! So much knowledge here it's incredible....

 

[Fred2482]

Welcome!

 

[PeterC99]

Welcome to R2R!

You are off to a great start with your aquarium and testing!

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R and the salty world. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed.

 

[dwair]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[MERKEY]

Hello and welcome to R2R!

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Good Day everyoone.

hope everyone is well, I have decided to start the journey of a marine tank after keeping a brackish tank stable and healthy for around a year now. I managed to get my self an IM Nuvo 30 with the AIO in the back, it started running a few days shy of 3 weeks and I have used Seachem stability as recommended.

tonight i will test the water and level with A Red Sea test kit, but I a, quite confused as I have read various posts on the false ammonia levels. Once I have done the test I will post pictures of the results hopefully to get an idea of the tank is fish ready yet or to still wait.

thanks for all the help coming in the future with the new project.

Welcome!

You are on your way - glad you joined

 

[Living Reef Orlando]

Welcome to R2R!! You'll get so much help here - just have to ask!!

 

[SPR1968]

Hi and welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[nick_rsa]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, i tend to be a little pedantic when it comes to things and would rather not learn the hard way but to rather do things the correct way first time round and have a flourishing tnank

 

[G Santana]

Welcome to R2R

 

[Just John]

We are glad you are here and we can all get the issues sorted out together!

 

[stewie]

Welcome

 

[DeniseAndy]

Hello. Welcome.
I do not think any of us can tell you exactly the things you will encounter, but some of similarities go around. Algae outbreaks, dinos, cyano, aiptasia, watching the tank mature and bring out some beautiful life. We forget how remarkable that is sometimes.
Enjoy all of it. After all, who wants to be on a ride that just goes round and round when it can go up, down, side to side, backwards and forwards. Much more exciting.

 

[Salty Rambler]

Welcome to R2R! Have you considered starting a build thread in the Member Tanks forum to document your journey?

 

[DKPminus]

Welcome.. good that your prepared for testing. sounds like you’re cycling your tank now. The objective is to get a solid bacteria base to be able to break down ammonia to nitrites to nitrate. not sure what your set up for now, having live sand and live rock helps the process or even dry rock adds to surface area for bacteria to take hold. Once you add anything that produces ammonia you will get a spike, as the bacteria feeds on this and turns it into a nitrite spike. Both are not wanted in your tank. Once they are both broken down into nitrates and ammonia and nitrite test are back to 0 you should be good to slowly add to the tank. As you will find out, algae is a common annoyance. While cycling and for a while after I kept lights off and limited. Algae needs light. Bacteria does not. Still fairly new myself, about 4 months into my tank. But I managed to avoid the ugly algae stage. Good luck, as your tank matures there are a lot of experienced people here to help you along.