Note: Please ignore the Ikea light that used for lighting the tank for the pic.
Hi All.
I am new to reef aquarium and this is my first reef tank that I setup last week. Planning for mainly zoas and easy corals and probably will move to hammers later. That’s all. Plan is to kickstart tank cycling using ammonia today. The tank will without any livestock for 4 weeks or until no nitrite/ammonia detected.
fish: will add after 4 weeks. Not decided on fish yet. Perhaps a goby, couple small perculas and some Cleanup crew.
light: I’ll put it after a month or so after adding fish (ie 2 -2.5 months from now) Perhaps Kessil 360x as I like it more. also will add coralline algae (do they sell it) at about the same time and hope it doesn’t die.
I’ll Add zoanthids if I see the coralline algae spread. Meanwhile I’ll read more about quarantine and treatments prior to adding them to tank.
water change: 25% weekly initially after adding fish and then maybe 10% weekly once the tank matures. Maybe will add a small skimmer later. Some people keep chaetos in the filter space of waterbox cube 20 (not sure if that is a ok idea as I have some space left there)
is my plan too safe? I have over 10 year experience with planted nano tanks and I’ll consider myself pretty successful but reef is a totally new experience so I am taking it slow.
Hi All.
I am new to reef aquarium and this is my first reef tank that I setup last week. Planning for mainly zoas and easy corals and probably will move to hammers later. That’s all. Plan is to kickstart tank cycling using ammonia today. The tank will without any livestock for 4 weeks or until no nitrite/ammonia detected.
fish: will add after 4 weeks. Not decided on fish yet. Perhaps a goby, couple small perculas and some Cleanup crew.
light: I’ll put it after a month or so after adding fish (ie 2 -2.5 months from now) Perhaps Kessil 360x as I like it more. also will add coralline algae (do they sell it) at about the same time and hope it doesn’t die.
I’ll Add zoanthids if I see the coralline algae spread. Meanwhile I’ll read more about quarantine and treatments prior to adding them to tank.
water change: 25% weekly initially after adding fish and then maybe 10% weekly once the tank matures. Maybe will add a small skimmer later. Some people keep chaetos in the filter space of waterbox cube 20 (not sure if that is a ok idea as I have some space left there)
is my plan too safe? I have over 10 year experience with planted nano tanks and I’ll consider myself pretty successful but reef is a totally new experience so I am taking it slow.
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