Day #7 🐠🔥
Unexpected update… the Flowerhorn is arriving EARLIER than expected tomorrow 😅📦🐟
The tank is still in the middle of the nitrogen cycle, but we’re seeing solid progress every day 👨🏻🔬
Current parameters:
• Ammonia: ~0.25 ppm
• Nitrite: ~1.0–2.0 ppm
• Nitrate: 5–10+ ppm
• pH: 7.6
✅ Crystal clear water
✅ Nitrites processing
✅ Nitrates increasing
✅ Heavy aeration & filtration running 24/7
✅ Pothos added for natural nitrate absorption 🌱
✅ Beneficial bacteria growing fast
At this point the tank is officially alive — now waiting for the nitrite spike to crash before full stabilization 💪
The Flowerhorn lands tomorrow morning before noon 👑🐠
So now it’s crunch time 😅
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.
Officially turn to 6 months today !
I'm so glad since this is my first tank ever 🪸
Hello community, I’m new here, crossing over from Freshwater🫣. Got me the Hello Reef 15g AIO, then decided I needed two more 5gs to balance out my pico tank shelves- each tank has a stocking plan, but we’ll see how it all pans out. Currently each are somewhere between 3-7 days into cycling with live sand and rock, dosed with Dr. Tim’s ammonia and either Dr. Tim’s or Fritz 9 live bacteria. Hoping to add first inverts by June! I plan to get each tank set up on an ATO soon- I was looking at Fzone as an affordable solution for these smaller tanks. What do ya’ll think?
Currently cycling this new tank set up. I started it with 7 lbs live rock from LFS, any help to ID this little creature would be greatly appreciated! Friend or foe?
Day 0
05-23-2026
Took 36 Gal of Water
Day 1:
05-24-2026
Turbo Start 9000
New addition! Bubble tip anemone. Looking for your own little corner
Starting up a new fluval evo 13.5, corals already looking really good 2 weeks in. Fish are being added in the next 3 days. Needed a new home for my pair of skunk clowns since they were being bullied.
Cycling my new tank - I find the waiting the hardest. Nitrites are 0,5ppm and Nitrates are 5ppm.
I still need to get my lights and I’m having a hard time deciding.
New IM 25 Lagoon here! Upgrading from a Marineland Portrait 5gal pico that ran for 3 years. The rock on the back right is from that tank along with the clown, 1 blue leg hermit, and 1 snail. Hoping the existing rock carries enough bacteria that the cycle isn't too crazy and everything goes smoothly. 🙏🏻 CaribSea
Hawaiian Black Arag, AI Prime 16HD, stock return pumps but thinking of going to a AI Axis 40, spin streams on both returns, and a Nero 3 on the right wall. Inkbird temp controller and 50w heater. IM caddy on right chamber with floss and Seachem matrix, left chamber is still a sock but changing to VCA NOSOK when it arrives. I look forward to seeing your tanks! Especially 25 Lagoons! Any advice is appreciated 🙂
New here. Just got my tank parameters back in line after years of neglect.
Day #7 🐠🔥
Unexpected update… the Flowerhorn is arriving EARLIER than expected tomorrow 😅📦🐟
The tank is still in the middle of the nitrogen cycle, but we’re seeing solid progress every day 👨🏻🔬
Current parameters:
• Ammonia: ~0.25 ppm
• Nitrite: ~1.0–2.0 ppm
• Nitrate: 5–10+ ppm
• pH: 7.6
✅ Crystal clear water
✅ Nitrites processing
✅ Nitrates increasing
✅ Heavy aeration & filtration running 24/7
✅ Pothos added for natural nitrate absorption 🌱
✅ Beneficial bacteria growing fast
At this point the tank is officially alive — now waiting for the nitrite spike to crash before full stabilization 💪
The Flowerhorn lands tomorrow morning before noon 👑🐠
So now it’s crunch time 😅