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[Adam Schindler]

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[Jeffcb]

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[Brady4000]

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[JL15219]

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[Jimbhoy13]

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

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Welcome!

Looking forward to hearing about your successes!!

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Hello and welcome to the channel

 

[jay06705]

Welcome to R2R!!

 

[BaysEndReef]

 

[steven_d_blanshan]

Welcome to R2R! A pico in an RV? Sounds intriguing.

It has a few unique challanges.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I'm New to this community and hoping to add value by educating others about the pacific oyster and learn from the enlightened community here.
I have a PICO 3.5 gallon tank a few days old with 2 LBS. calcium carbonate substrate, in an RV with 1 turbo Astraea snail, 2 blue/green chromis, 1 watchman goby, 1 LB. live rock covered in Coraline, and 1 FRESH grocery store pacific oyster with 2 barnacles and all the mud and detritus as well as wanted and unwanted hitchhikers, carefully collected and added to my tank and mixed into my substrate.
I used 1 small bottle of live nitrifying bacteria (up to 30 gallons) 2 days ago, and have saved all the water 1 gallon at a time from each water change, up to 2 changes and 2 gallons per day depending on ammonia-nitrite-nitrate levels. I expect my nitrogen cycle to complete in 2 to 5 days from now with average temp at 70F with VERY carefully monitored 1.024 SG water.
All inhabitants are very happy except the snail which has been sluggish during this nitrogen cycle and who is now excited about the algae on the oyster shell.
I am happy to blog about it, but I really want expert advice and thoughts!
I have bred SW and FW plants and animals for my LFS and even created a method to convert and breed mollies to full SW 32PPT with 100% survival rate.
I am not a noob, over 10 continuous years in aquarium husbandry, and I have the capacity to learn and cross reference new and old information to get the most from useful information. but I am committed to being the best I can be and if anyone has useful or even off topic information I am willing to talk at great length to improve the hobby and success rates.
I thank anyone who wishes to add to this particular conversation about using oysters to reduce nitrates, nitrites, and quickly finish the nitrogen cycle with the help of an oyster and a bottle of Instant Ocean BIO-SPIRA.
PLeASE add anything useful or related to this thread if its called that... I know more about water parameters than I do forums.

Welcome, we've been expecting you......

 

[KingTideCorals]

I'm New to this community and hoping to add value by educating others about the pacific oyster and learn from the enlightened community here.
I have a PICO 3.5 gallon tank a few days old with 2 LBS. calcium carbonate substrate, in an RV with 1 turbo Astraea snail, 2 blue/green chromis, 1 watchman goby, 1 LB. live rock covered in Coraline, and 1 FRESH grocery store pacific oyster with 2 barnacles and all the mud and detritus as well as wanted and unwanted hitchhikers, carefully collected and added to my tank and mixed into my substrate.
I used 1 small bottle of live nitrifying bacteria (up to 30 gallons) 2 days ago, and have saved all the water 1 gallon at a time from each water change, up to 2 changes and 2 gallons per day depending on ammonia-nitrite-nitrate levels. I expect my nitrogen cycle to complete in 2 to 5 days from now with average temp at 70F with VERY carefully monitored 1.024 SG water.
All inhabitants are very happy except the snail which has been sluggish during this nitrogen cycle and who is now excited about the algae on the oyster shell.
I am happy to blog about it, but I really want expert advice and thoughts!
I have bred SW and FW plants and animals for my LFS and even created a method to convert and breed mollies to full SW 32PPT with 100% survival rate.
I am not a noob, over 10 continuous years in aquarium husbandry, and I have the capacity to learn and cross reference new and old information to get the most from useful information. but I am committed to being the best I can be and if anyone has useful or even off topic information I am willing to talk at great length to improve the hobby and success rates.
I thank anyone who wishes to add to this particular conversation about using oysters to reduce nitrates, nitrites, and quickly finish the nitrogen cycle with the help of an oyster and a bottle of Instant Ocean BIO-SPIRA.
PLeASE add anything useful or related to this thread if its called that... I know more about water parameters than I do forums.

Welcome to the reefing world! Also welcome to the largest online reef forum out there! R2R is a great place to gain knowledge and learn from all kinds of hobbyists!

If you are interested I have a reefing channel I have had going this past year and nearing 1K subs! Think its been a fun little "family" I have grown and its a fun community as well to be a part of! Think after R2R, YouTube can be one of the best places to get information on reefing! Again welcome!

 

[Manny’s Reef]

Hello and welcome to R2R.

 

[steven_d_blanshan]

Its been 18 days, the Pico has survived 2 moves in the RV, the nitrogen cycle completed in a total of 8 days like the bottle said, I no longer need to keep an artificially larger supply of recycled water in jugs.

I'm pleased to say after I had more grocery store oysters for lunch the other day, while I was cleaning them I found 2 live anemones on an oyster shell, as well as a garden of plant life on another, I kept my soon to be lunch in a "cut in half" 1 gallon jug with an aerator and cleaned all their shells removing sand and detritus which I collected and moved to a 4 week sealed biome to observe any growth of microscopic critters such as crab or oyster larvae, any copepods or other macros which might have survived to the grocery store.
In the last 3 days since I added the 2 Diadumene paranaensis "I think" all inhabitants are still happy and the 2 anemones are happy to eat flake food as well as frozen mix.
I have also identified this oyster as a farmed pacific oyster based on shape, size, and condition lacking spat or even barnacles. It is most likely from the "pacific oyster" farms in Chesapeake bay on the Atlantic coast of the eastern USA which also helped me identify the Diadumene paranaensis which share the same waters making identification easier. Diadumene are closely related to Exaiptasia Pallida, however they are 4 branches over on their family tree so I'll be watching those closely to determine if they may become pests.

Ill toss in pictures of the diadumene anemone, Miyagi oyster (pacific oyster), and other critters, plus the biome from the detritus I collected.
I am very excited to see what, if anything, appears inside this grocery store "sealed marine biome"! I follow lifeinjars? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0XNssyypOLiq4vVgXm9NtQ
on YouTube! It's surprisingly entertaining

An interesting note, adding the oyster seems to have reduced my buffering ability resulting in a very slightly lower PH, perhaps repairing its shell from harvest damage and growing it back is reducing the available calcium carbonate in the water causing slightly more acidity which may help break down the substrate to provide more calcium carbonate?

 

[Poof No Eyebrows]

Welcome
Oysters are delicious, especially with a half steam and some hot sauce!

 

[iMi]

Welcome!

 

[CMMorgan]

I'm New to this community and hoping to add value by educating others about the pacific oyster and learn from the enlightened community here.
I have a PICO 3.5 gallon tank a few days old with 2 LBS. calcium carbonate substrate, in an RV with 1 turbo Astraea snail, 2 blue/green chromis, 1 watchman goby, 1 LB. live rock covered in Coraline, and 1 FRESH grocery store pacific oyster with 2 barnacles and all the mud and detritus as well as wanted and unwanted hitchhikers, carefully collected and added to my tank and mixed into my substrate.
I used 1 small bottle of live nitrifying bacteria (up to 30 gallons) 2 days ago, and have saved all the water 1 gallon at a time from each water change, up to 2 changes and 2 gallons per day depending on ammonia-nitrite-nitrate levels. I expect my nitrogen cycle to complete in 2 to 5 days from now with average temp at 70F with VERY carefully monitored 1.024 SG water.
All inhabitants are very happy except the snail which has been sluggish during this nitrogen cycle and who is now excited about the algae on the oyster shell.
I am happy to blog about it, but I really want expert advice and thoughts!
I have bred SW and FW plants and animals for my LFS and even created a method to convert and breed mollies to full SW 32PPT with 100% survival rate.
I am not a noob, over 10 continuous years in aquarium husbandry, and I have the capacity to learn and cross reference new and old information to get the most from useful information. but I am committed to being the best I can be and if anyone has useful or even off topic information I am willing to talk at great length to improve the hobby and success rates.
I thank anyone who wishes to add to this particular conversation about using oysters to reduce nitrates, nitrites, and quickly finish the nitrogen cycle with the help of an oyster and a bottle of Instant Ocean BIO-SPIRA.
PLeASE add anything useful or related to this thread if its called that... I know more about water parameters than I do forums.

Belated welcome to the fishy family!