🌊🐠 New little king settling into his kingdom 👑
A week ago he was hiding in the corner… now he’s exploring the whole tank, playing with the sand, and already begging for food 😂
Still cycling the tank slowly and carefully:
✅ Ammonia: 0
✅ Nitrate: 5
⚠️ Nitrite still showing 0.25
Keeping things simple:
* natural sand setup
* driftwood & stone
* pothos roots
* low stress environment
Thinking maybe 1–2 ghost shrimp soon for enrichment 🦐
It’s honestly amazing watching a tiny Flowerhorn slowly gain confidence and personality day by day. 🌱🐠
1.5 weeks into cycling and we have diatoms!
Long time freshwater guy starting my first salt tank. Just started the cycle yesterday. Hopefully I’ll have more lively pics here in a few weeks.
🌊🐠 New little king settling into his kingdom 👑
A week ago he was hiding in the corner… now he’s exploring the whole tank, playing with the sand, and already begging for food 😂
Still cycling the tank slowly and carefully:
✅ Ammonia: 0
✅ Nitrate: 5
⚠️ Nitrite still showing 0.25
Keeping things simple:
* natural sand setup
* driftwood & stone
* pothos roots
* low stress environment
Thinking maybe 1–2 ghost shrimp soon for enrichment 🦐
It’s honestly amazing watching a tiny Flowerhorn slowly gain confidence and personality day by day. 🌱🐠
Day 0
05-23-2026
Took 36 Gal of Water
New baby tomini chilling in the nano while the 55gal cycles.
Tang police 🚨 wya
New 75g on day 3 of the cycle.
Only been running a month
Fitted the new lid today more gas exchange at top all
Results are spot on very happy 6 weeks to cycle then 2 weeks testing before cuc then the 2 clowns a week later
The set up is complete and coming to the end of the cycling phase
Loving my new frag rack
Tank just finishing cycling
upgrade tank 🔥 silence before the reef storm 🌊
cycling in progress .. 😩
New tank started on 2/10/2026