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After 5 years of planted tanks I'm back on nano salt water. Started 11 days ago I have begun the cycle process, and have I forgot most of what I knew years ago... Man! I'm rusty.. Anyway going to keep a wee log of it. Grimes 15 gallon rimless mixed reef with added pest algae 😭 Equipment: AquaOne AquaNano 40, 15 Gallon AquaOne Nanoskim 40 Stockheater and pump Fluval SEA Nano LED Jebao wp 10 wavemaker - replacing with an AI Nero 3. Jebao dp-4 dosing pump Filtration: 5 kg of live rock 1 kg TMC fine sand Macroalgae - Caulerpa Taxifolia Livestock (updated 14th November) Fish & Inverts: Yellow coral goby (Gobiodon okinawae) Blue neon goby (Elacatinus oceanops) Firefish goby (Nemateleotris magnifica) Pajama Cardinal (Sphaeramia nematoptera) 5 x Banded Trochus Snails (can't count now as there are so many babies) 2 x Bumblebee Snails 2 x Cerith Snails 1 x Nassarius snail Peppermint shrimp Emerald Crab 4 hermits Coral: SPS: Montipora delicatula LPS: Hammer (Euphyllia ancora) Duncan's (Duncanopsammia axifuga) Acan (Acanthastrea echinata) Goniopora Softies: Zoas - Radio Active Zoas - Red People Eater Zoas - blue hornets Zoas - Rastas Green Implosion Paly Mushrooms Yuma Red Mushroom Orange (Rhodactis mussoides) Mushroom Florida Ric Green Star colony (Pachyclavularia) Kenya Tree Coral 8th April 2020 27th Oct 2020 Nov 2020

Current FTS 21st May 2019 ***************** Hi I live in Austraila and have been out of the hobby for a few years, but my wife secretly purchased me a new tank as she knows I missed it, The Tank is an Aqua one Minireef 160 its main tank is 90cmx45cmx45cm, sump is 60cmx38cmx40cm and rodi storage is 16cmx38x40cm So far all I have done is fill with ro/di water added sand and salt, added in a Aquael Reef Circulator 2500 power head and aquaone auto top system I have ordered 18kg/40lb of Caribsea life rock shapes, going to try Bacteria House Bio Block in the sump and 3FT DSunY Marine LED with wifi for main light

Have been reading everywhere and can’t seem to have found a solution so I have joined the nano reef community. first of all thank you for all the answers to questions that have been relevant to me in my first reef tank, this website has helped me a lot already. I am currently running a 90L nano reef tank that was an all-in-one-by aqua one. I am approximately 4 weeks into my fishless cycle with nitrites + nitrates still fairly high but what can you do. Regardless, I have the aquaone g226.. (I think) protein skimmer running in my sump, it has already collected skimmate - however there are millions upon millions of microbubbles in my tank. It seems too far along to have not broken in so I was wondering if anyone has had a problem with the same skimmer, and if there are any possible solutions? i believe the bubbles or coming from the output or the skimmer pump however I can’t narrow it down as the sump is too small to get my head in there Lol I don’t like the idea of just turning the skimmer off at night but it looks like it will have to come to that, I have also heard that a filter sock is a possible option too. I have tried to block the microbubbles as seen below thanks in advance !

Hi, Below is the set up I have in my AquaOne Nanoreef 35 Tank, is there anything you would change, move around, add or remove. Thanks in advance.