I just finished a month long deep cleaning of my 800liter tank. One major step per week including a sand siphoning and cleaning (toxic dead cyano dust everywhere). I let it relax for 10 days and then did a 600liter water change. At this point there was more sand than needed and too many rocks and my sump had a few too much rock also.
I had set up a 70liter tank to accept corals that my fish pick on too much. During the 600liter change on the big tank, I took 40 liters from the mature tank, 30 liters of new, the extra sand, rock, and Siporax from my sump bag and directly placed it into the little tank. The next day I added 4 shrimp, 3 crabs and four tube worms.
Question. Do you think the tank will cycle? The quantity of mature material is correct for the size. Should I buy an ammonia test kit? No fish but I need to feed zee shrimps. My live rock is pretty clean as my big tank fish are not reef safe. I did get two small rock pieces from the shop out of their invertebrate tank smothered with life.
Side note. This work was performed in order to make arrangements to place an XXL Catalaphyllia in place of the chewed on lobos, sarcos, and a sinularia. I don't know why one sinularia is fine but the other gets chewed on.
Thanks,
Mark
I had set up a 70liter tank to accept corals that my fish pick on too much. During the 600liter change on the big tank, I took 40 liters from the mature tank, 30 liters of new, the extra sand, rock, and Siporax from my sump bag and directly placed it into the little tank. The next day I added 4 shrimp, 3 crabs and four tube worms.
Question. Do you think the tank will cycle? The quantity of mature material is correct for the size. Should I buy an ammonia test kit? No fish but I need to feed zee shrimps. My live rock is pretty clean as my big tank fish are not reef safe. I did get two small rock pieces from the shop out of their invertebrate tank smothered with life.
Side note. This work was performed in order to make arrangements to place an XXL Catalaphyllia in place of the chewed on lobos, sarcos, and a sinularia. I don't know why one sinularia is fine but the other gets chewed on.
Thanks,
Mark