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If it’s just a 30gal, then go ahead and do 70-90%. You don’t need to do a smaller one and retest to decide if you need to do more. That’d be a waste of time. It’s pretty simple math to know how much you’ll reduce the nitrates by volume.It's just a 30 gallon. I bought a skimmer today to go with all the other equipment I'm accumulating...
Brandon, I am learning a lot from your posts. Thanks. I am about to pull the trigger on adding water and rocks.one of the best benefits of being cycled is no degree of water changing, literally no degree can uncycle it.
stopping feeding your tank wouldnt uncycle it, bacteria feed via natural means long before us when hydrated
doing a 100% water change twice a day for a year would not uncycle it.
doing a 100% water change, waiting an hour to refill the system lol, still would not uncycle it.
these claims would seem outlandish were they not already action threads and videos posted in our cycling threads. post-cycle is this tough, cannot be undone unless you dose and measure and maintain antibiotics or boil the setup.
I would bet 100 virtual dollars lol that even doing a 100% water change, filling with distilled water for half a day, then changing it all back for saltwater would not uncycle it (bioslick osmolarity regulation) but that's a guess, nobody has tested that yet
in all online cycles ever posted I have never seen a single cycle get undone, I dont think its possible in a home environment.
You literally dont have to consider your filtration bacteria for the rest of the life of the tank, even if you removed all your sand out in one of the 100% water changes (which we do for 40 pages in the sand rinse thread)
Knowing how tough filter bacteria can certainly save your reef from future loss, you have intervention and management options in play that someone fearful of bacteria would not, and the hesitation from that causes loss for sure.
I plan on cycling about 30 pounds of live rock from KP aquatics shipped in wet paper in a 30 gallon plastic tub. I will change water as needed in the tub until it is safe to transfer to the tank. Then, I will buy some rock from them shipped in water and put directly into the tank. That's the plan anyway.we can customize such a job for sure.
is this wet or dry shipped KP aquatics rock
asking because we can cure them in brutes vs the big tank, doing small water change guiding off tapwater dechlor saltwater if needed
how will the rock get to you
Thanks Brandon, I will update you when it gets going.thank you for posting! your feedback when its all set is critical shaping for our recommends, thanks for letting us work in a customized cycle run here its so fun
So I guess I am disposing of nitrate when I do the water changes in the first batch of rocks. I am talking about nitrate sufficient enough to cause the uglies as you say. I will do the smell test on everything as you suggested.Thanks Brandon, I will update you when it gets going.