Hi all,
I recently bought a Red Sea Reefer E170 with sump from a guy at work who has thrown in the towel. He gave me everything he had including... Seneye reef, 4 stage rodi system, Bubble Magnus Skimmer, salt mixing station, Red Sea test kits, spare pump and jecod wave maker, reactor, food, doser/coral additives, mp10 wave maker and loads more stuff for maintenance. After a little price haggling I convinced him to help me set it up. He suggested I buy 30lb of Fiji pink live sand and 35b of Liferock online, I followed his instructions about cycling the tank and on Saturday I filled it with my newly mixed salt water, I poured 2oz of fritz turbo start 900 in the tank and bought two clowns from my LFS the following day. Ok this is about the point where I found this amazing forum and realised that this wasn’t the best way to cycle my new tank
I have tested my parameters daily and everything is looking ok the clowns seem happy swimming around the tank. The Seneye is reporting I have 0.001 Ammonia the RedSea test kit shows zero Nitrite and Nitrate is somewhere between 2-5, Ph is 8.3 and alkalinity is 8.5.
Got a few questions if you guys can help please.... desperate to get this done right after jumping the gun!
1. Is it a good idea to pour the other half of my Fritz bottle in tomorrow?
2. When should I start skimming and how often should I be changing my filter sock?
3. Can I put my light on at all? Or should I wait a month? I did read BRS suggested 4 months
4. Should I wait a few weeks before I add a small clean up crew?
5. Is it a good idea to start doing a weekly 10%/15% water change this weekend?
Thanks in advance, I look forward to getting some better advice.
I recently bought a Red Sea Reefer E170 with sump from a guy at work who has thrown in the towel. He gave me everything he had including... Seneye reef, 4 stage rodi system, Bubble Magnus Skimmer, salt mixing station, Red Sea test kits, spare pump and jecod wave maker, reactor, food, doser/coral additives, mp10 wave maker and loads more stuff for maintenance. After a little price haggling I convinced him to help me set it up. He suggested I buy 30lb of Fiji pink live sand and 35b of Liferock online, I followed his instructions about cycling the tank and on Saturday I filled it with my newly mixed salt water, I poured 2oz of fritz turbo start 900 in the tank and bought two clowns from my LFS the following day. Ok this is about the point where I found this amazing forum and realised that this wasn’t the best way to cycle my new tank
I have tested my parameters daily and everything is looking ok the clowns seem happy swimming around the tank. The Seneye is reporting I have 0.001 Ammonia the RedSea test kit shows zero Nitrite and Nitrate is somewhere between 2-5, Ph is 8.3 and alkalinity is 8.5.
Got a few questions if you guys can help please.... desperate to get this done right after jumping the gun!
1. Is it a good idea to pour the other half of my Fritz bottle in tomorrow?
2. When should I start skimming and how often should I be changing my filter sock?
3. Can I put my light on at all? Or should I wait a month? I did read BRS suggested 4 months
4. Should I wait a few weeks before I add a small clean up crew?
5. Is it a good idea to start doing a weekly 10%/15% water change this weekend?
Thanks in advance, I look forward to getting some better advice.