newbie and curious.

[airvicconcre]

Hi all, i live in india and i've just started setting up a 150g DT and a 75g sump. ive added live sand and art rock in the main dt with two wave makers and an ato. my sump consists of a one cove i-200 internal protein skimmer, a media reactor, an algae reactor, a bubble magus roller filter, some filter sponges and live rock. i have set another 5g refugium in which im trying to cultivate copepods which i got from the USA. its been a week and my pods seem to be thriving on reef nutritions phyto feast. ive used Brightwell microbacter xlm, microbacter 7 and dr tims one and only live nitrifying bacteria. i use pellets and freeze dried black worms for ammonia in my tank. ive been testing every other day and my ammonia is 0 and my nitrite is 0.1. should i run other tests as well? im a patient guy and i can wait much longer before i add fish to my tank. any advise is welcome concerning my query.

 

[Matt L]

I would test for nitrates in a few weeks as well. Once a week should be good for testing for around 4 weeks. Then see if your cycle is done. Good luck!

 

[airvicconcre]

Thank you. I will do that. There’s still a lot of work to be done and learn. :))