The 20 gallon nano just hit 3 months old and is going strong.This tank was started with the help of my two other mature systems so it had a good biological start. Tanks been super stable with a two part plus bio mag dosing system.
How of doing people do a water change or how often should we do one. So my tank is about 4 months old now and have been doing a watcher change every two weeks. Its been through all it's cycles and now all readings are coming back perfect and salinity is also spot on. My question is do I need to keep doing a water change every two weeks if my reading are spot on or can a leave it a bit longer now ?
😂 After countless water tests and enough beneficial bacteria to start a small civilization, our tank has officially graduated from “giant glass box of water” to fully cycled aquarium! 🎓🐟
So the reef is now at day 71 since water was added. The local corals going nuts and other inhabitants feeding and behaving as they should albeit I wish they would stop enjoying the back of the tank - but hey, the Clowns and Banggai love feeding time.
Dosing Aqua Forrest 3 in 1. Coral Essentials Phosphate Up & Nitrate Up.
Cycle complete on the experiment! Added CUC and my first ever corals last night!! Also upgraded water flow from the nano internal skimmer to Fluval HOB- I didn’t like the space the skimmer was taking up and the HOB gives me more flexibility with carbon filtration option. Upgrade lighting arriving tomorrow!
3-Week Tank Update
5 straight days of stable parameters:
✅ Ammonia: 0
✅ Nitrites: 0
✅ Nitrates: 4 ppm
New additions to the tank:
🌌 Galaxy Pods introduced
🦀 2 Electric Blue Hermit Crabs
🦀 2 Crimson Red Hermit Crabs
🐌 5 Stocky Red Stripe Trochus Snails
🐌 6 Cerith Snails
🐌 2 Nassarius Snails
The 20 gallon nano just hit 3 months old and is going strong.This tank was started with the help of my two other mature systems so it had a good biological start. Tanks been super stable with a two part plus bio mag dosing system.
How of doing people do a water change or how often should we do one. So my tank is about 4 months old now and have been doing a watcher change every two weeks. Its been through all it's cycles and now all readings are coming back perfect and salinity is also spot on. My question is do I need to keep doing a water change every two weeks if my reading are spot on or can a leave it a bit longer now ?
😂 After countless water tests and enough beneficial bacteria to start a small civilization, our tank has officially graduated from “giant glass box of water” to fully cycled aquarium! 🎓🐟
So the reef is now at day 71 since water was added. The local corals going nuts and other inhabitants feeding and behaving as they should albeit I wish they would stop enjoying the back of the tank - but hey, the Clowns and Banggai love feeding time.
Dosing Aqua Forrest 3 in 1. Coral Essentials Phosphate Up & Nitrate Up.
1 water change at day 50.
Cycle complete on the experiment! Added CUC and my first ever corals last night!! Also upgraded water flow from the nano internal skimmer to Fluval HOB- I didn’t like the space the skimmer was taking up and the HOB gives me more flexibility with carbon filtration option. Upgrade lighting arriving tomorrow!
New here. Just got my tank parameters back in line after years of neglect.
4 month in and everything is looking good.
One year in! 🥳
Finally, the nitrite levels dropped to zero, and at last the first fish arrived!
Cycle needs to hurry up.
Coord management coming once I move equipment from my other tank. Dont judge me yet.
4 months since start