How to Setup a Reef Tank Part 5: Adding Fish and Short Term Maintenance

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We are coming into the last, ‘major’ installment in our how to setup a reef tank series wherein we discuss adding fish, what cycling actually means, and the short and medium term maintenance of caring for a new reef tank. We already confessed in our previous video that adding corals to a reef tank is […]
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I enjoyed reading your lead-up to skip cycle biology, legit science for today's reefing since nobody is ballpark guessing

the techniques available for skip cycling (not waiting an arbitrary number of days before adding items) are solid and searchable in forum work going back a good length of time. It is however still a largely unknown option--niche users only so far. people who move tanks home to home can employ the same skip cycle options we can employ going from lfs-home is how I see it.
 

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