AP7x
09/12/2004, 06:55 PM
Hello
I have a 125g in my living room...we put in LR about 3-4 weeks ago. The LR was pre-cured Marshall Island + Fiji from PA.com, then another batch of Fiji LR from RM.
The first week came out with ammonia present, but not too much. I didnt bother testing again until yesterday, which came out with 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite.
Does this mean the cycle itself is done (ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate)?
But I read I shouldve had some blooms (diatom...algae...anything) but I havent had any of that sort. Sand is still clean..(except some debris i need to vacuum up) and rocks are...turning white due to coralline dieoff. Otherwise...nothing new.
No water changes were ever done yet...just top off.
Lights on 8 hrs or so a day. But they are just regular lights that came with the tank (MH/VHO will come a month or so later when the first wave of debts are paid off from this tank =P)
I was plannin to add the cleanup crew after the parameters looked OK to deal with what I thought would be mass algae or something..
BUt theres nothing there.
So - will a bloom come any day now or what...?
Also - are there any reef fish that dont require the reef part yet (sounds contradictory =P) that I could add that would enjoy being only with rocks in two weeks or so? Corals will come in a month or so with the lights...
Thx
I have a 125g in my living room...we put in LR about 3-4 weeks ago. The LR was pre-cured Marshall Island + Fiji from PA.com, then another batch of Fiji LR from RM.
The first week came out with ammonia present, but not too much. I didnt bother testing again until yesterday, which came out with 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite.
Does this mean the cycle itself is done (ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate)?
But I read I shouldve had some blooms (diatom...algae...anything) but I havent had any of that sort. Sand is still clean..(except some debris i need to vacuum up) and rocks are...turning white due to coralline dieoff. Otherwise...nothing new.
No water changes were ever done yet...just top off.
Lights on 8 hrs or so a day. But they are just regular lights that came with the tank (MH/VHO will come a month or so later when the first wave of debts are paid off from this tank =P)
I was plannin to add the cleanup crew after the parameters looked OK to deal with what I thought would be mass algae or something..
BUt theres nothing there.
So - will a bloom come any day now or what...?
Also - are there any reef fish that dont require the reef part yet (sounds contradictory =P) that I could add that would enjoy being only with rocks in two weeks or so? Corals will come in a month or so with the lights...
Thx