Thanks for all the Information

[want2nano]

Thank you all who have posted in the forum! I have read about everything here and I still decided to go ahead with a nano. 

 

I plan on taking it slow and doing things as right as I know.

 

I have a 32 gallon BioCube with the stock filtration (filter and carbon)

Aquatop MaxFlow circ pump 256 gallons per hour

Heater (tank is 80F)

30 lbs of live rock 

20 lbs of Caribsea sand

premix water (redsea)

 

My numbers currently 

 

Salinity is 1.025

PH is 8.0

Ammonia is 0 PPM

Nitrite is 0 PPM

Nitrate is 0 PPM

 

How long before my tank will cycle? Anything I should do differently?

[Joevember]

Add in some form of nutrients to fuel your bacteria and to get your cycle going. You can either do ghost feeding, where you put in fish food for the bacteria to break it down, or you can add an ammonia supplement.

It's also a good idea to put a bottle of live bacteria to help your cycle, even if you start with live rock and sand.

 

We're always happy to help! 😄

[want2nano]

Thank you, I will add tomorrow.

[colinadam]

You can get a bottle of Bio-spira along with a clown and fly through your cycle. 

 

Add the Bio-Spira (Entire bottle), and then a clown. Feeding it will cause the ammonia and the live bacteria from the Bio-Spira and your sand will break it down. 

 

Don't go more than 1 hearty fish and pick one you want to keep long term. 

[WV Reefer]

33 minutes ago, want2nano said:

Thank you all who have posted in the forum! I have read about everything here and I still decided to go ahead with a nano. 

 

I plan on taking it slow and doing things as right as I know.

 

I have a 32 gallon BioCube with the stock filtration (filter and carbon)

Aquatop MaxFlow circ pump 256 gallons per hour

Heater (tank is 80F)

30 lbs of live rock 

20 lbs of Caribsea sand

premix water (redsea)

 

My numbers currently 

 

Salinity is 1.025

PH is 8.0

Ammonia is 0 PPM

Nitrite is 0 PPM

Nitrate is 0 PPM

 

How long before my tank will cycle? Anything I should do differently?

 

Welcome to NR! 😊

 

Looks like you are off to a good start. 

 

Few questions:

 

Have you dosed ammonia or done anything to kick off the cycle?

 

Did your live rock go straight into your tank? Is it actually live rock?

 

Do you have a test kit?  

 

 

[want2nano]

Thanks Christy,

 

I have not dosed anything,

Live rock went in and then sand and then water, yes it is live rock.

i used an API test kit to get the above numbers

[WV Reefer]

7 minutes ago, want2nano said:

Thanks Christy,

 

I have not dosed anything,

Live rock went in and then sand and then water, yes it is live rock.

i used an API test kit to get the above numbers

 

Then I would set back and let it do it’s thing. 😊 did you see any ammonia spikes since set up?

[want2nano]

1 minute ago, WV Reefer said:

 

Then I would set back and let it do it’s thing. 😊 did you see any ammonia spikes since set up?

no spikes

 

[Clown79]

Is it established liverock?

Do you see feather dusters, pods, coralline on the rock? 

If so, you shouldn't go through a cycle since it's already cycled rock.

 

If it was from a container with a bunch of wet rock that is full of detritus, then it will cycle on it's own. No need to dose ammonia.

 

Adding biospira won't hurt anything with either rock.

[want2nano]

15 hours ago, Clown79 said:

Is it established liverock?

Do you see feather dusters, pods, coralline on the rock? 

If so, you shouldn't go through a cycle since it's already cycled rock.

 

If it was from a container with a bunch of wet rock that is full of detritus, then it will cycle on it's own. No need to dose ammonia.

 

Adding biospira won't hurt anything with either rock.

It is established liverock, I see a lot of coralline and some tiny little white things on the rock waving at me (fetherdusters?) I will check numbers again tonight and see if anything changed.

[want2nano]

Day 5, 

 

Numbers are 

Salinity is 1.025

PH is 8.0

Ammonia is 0.5 PPM

Nitrite is 0 PPM

Nitrate is 0 PPM

 

Nice coralline , no live stock in the tank. anything I should be doing or just still wait.

[want2nano]

yay, finally got my algae bloom, have small cleaner crew of 6 Cerith Snails, 2 Emerald crabs and a cleaner shrimp. Will do 20% water change over the weekend and 10% weekly from now on.