Picture of my tuxedo making my coral mad for attention😂
I need help‼️
Sorry for the long post
My tank is about 3 months old.. added my coral and fish after the initial cycle to where my ammonia dissipates 2ppm in about 2-3 days. I added fish and corals about a month ago. My soft corals are doing AWESOME, growing! The sps coral not so well. I screwed up though, I have a canister filter (see why people avoid them now) and I cleaned my filters (not the media) after the diatoms started to turn green. I think I have accidentally restarted the cycle... if you look at my parameters, I can "overfeed" and in a couple days my ammonia spikes, dissipates, then It seems to not turn to nitrites to be able to turn into nitrates... how do I get nitrates?
Week 5 and 6! I have definitely learned a lot the last 2 weeks with the help of some amazing experts in the field. They were hard to find as not a lot of people that are sellers take marine husbandry serious. My parameters were stalling and the advice to add more of the RIGHT bio media and some more bacteria saw my nitrites drop within 24 hours finishing my cycle. Some more water changes to come before fish but my first corals are in deviating from the original two planned to allow some learning. Mushrooms allowed me to learn corals opening and closing, rocks and frag plugs and what glue works and doesn’t; which corals can be glued to frags and which can’t and a whole lot of trial and error before getting things right.
Hey guys I stared this tank on march 23 not gonna lie I've only check the water one time since it's been up how does it look everyone's opinion I've did three water changes since it's been running haven't lost one fish or coral
What is this white film?? It was sitting on top of the water. This tank has been cycling for 2 weeks now. Protein skimmer and lights have been off. I used the Only and Only a week ago.
A good mantra for everyone who got their first tank for Christmas. Rushing to get too many fish doesn't allow your bacteria time to establish. Rushing to get corals before you've learned how to manage your water quality will cause coral problems. Rushing to buy loads of equipment means you might spend money you didn't need to or on gear that isn't right for you. Go slow, be patient, research, research research.
Staring to feel like a real reef tank! When do I need to start running the skimmer? I didn’t have it on through the cycle and have been gradually adding fish and coral over the last 3-4 weeks. Currently have 5 small fish, 6 shrimp (4 peppermints), 10ish snails and 7 corals (mostly zoa’s, 1 nem). What signs will tell me I need to turn it on? It’s quite loud so trying to work out if I can have it on a timer to only go at night.
Picture of my tuxedo making my coral mad for attention😂
I need help‼️
Sorry for the long post
My tank is about 3 months old.. added my coral and fish after the initial cycle to where my ammonia dissipates 2ppm in about 2-3 days. I added fish and corals about a month ago. My soft corals are doing AWESOME, growing! The sps coral not so well. I screwed up though, I have a canister filter (see why people avoid them now) and I cleaned my filters (not the media) after the diatoms started to turn green. I think I have accidentally restarted the cycle... if you look at my parameters, I can "overfeed" and in a couple days my ammonia spikes, dissipates, then It seems to not turn to nitrites to be able to turn into nitrates... how do I get nitrates?
New to the hobby and just grabbed this app today! I’m still in the process of adding coral!
So I added my Fritz turbo to by 20gal it’s been running for 2and half weeks have a pair of clowns, and a neon dottyback for fish, 2 bumble bea snails and a nassarius snail for inverts. And lastly one acan coral, green clove polyp, and a frag of zoas, for coral. everything is doing but wondering when I can start having some hammer,torch,and frogspawn.
(Old system) 75 gallon mixed reef. Had this aquarium for 3 years. When I moved, my large green sinularia died on transport, and when put back into the setup, it had died and nuked all my corals and fish. So, we are restarting the system from scratch.
Can you add corals before the tank is cycled?
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