Comments on: I need help with my new saltwater tank….? http://www.saltwaterspace.com/Green-Bubble-Coral/i-need-help-with-my-new-saltwater-tank/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:37:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: peter_lee38 http://www.saltwaterspace.com/Green-Bubble-Coral/i-need-help-with-my-new-saltwater-tank/#comment-253 peter_lee38 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.saltwaterspace.com/Green-Bubble-Coral/i-need-help-with-my-new-saltwater-tank/#comment-253 Sounds like a fairly normal tank cycle starting. I personally am not in favour of adding fish this early as the nirtate cycle will burn their gills and they will die a very slow death. Having said that though. A lot of people do this when they are cycling a tank. Personally, I like to load a tank with water gravel and live rock then turn the filters on, run lights for 12 hours a day and forget about it for about 4 weeks. Then do the first water change and test the water again a day later and decide whether to leave it go longer or start building from there. The key to establishing a solid, reliable salt water set up is patience and doing things slowly to start. I would leave the tank for another 3 weeks then add some clean up crew. Leave it a week more then add some more fish if you wanted. But I would be keeping the bio load as low as possible to start. Being a small tank you wont be able to have too many fish. The skimmer is definately set up wrong. The bubbles should be inside the skimmer not outside. Check how you have set it up again as something is definately not right there. Maybe post some pics and we can have a look and see what is where it should not be., Good luck with setting the tank up. Once set up and stable they are so rewarding and not nearly as much work as people say. Just remember the key is slowly, slowly. Take it patiently to start and the rewards will come Sounds like a fairly normal tank cycle starting. I personally am not in favour of adding fish this early as the nirtate cycle will burn their gills and they will die a very slow death. Having said that though. A lot of people do this when they are cycling a tank.

Personally, I like to load a tank with water gravel and live rock then turn the filters on, run lights for 12 hours a day and forget about it for about 4 weeks. Then do the first water change and test the water again a day later and decide whether to leave it go longer or start building from there.

The key to establishing a solid, reliable salt water set up is patience and doing things slowly to start. I would leave the tank for another 3 weeks then add some clean up crew. Leave it a week more then add some more fish if you wanted. But I would be keeping the bio load as low as possible to start. Being a small tank you wont be able to have too many fish.

The skimmer is definately set up wrong. The bubbles should be inside the skimmer not outside. Check how you have set it up again as something is definately not right there. Maybe post some pics and we can have a look and see what is where it should not be.,

Good luck with setting the tank up. Once set up and stable they are so rewarding and not nearly as much work as people say. Just remember the key is slowly, slowly. Take it patiently to start and the rewards will come

]]> By: luv2snuggwithu http://www.saltwaterspace.com/Green-Bubble-Coral/i-need-help-with-my-new-saltwater-tank/#comment-254 luv2snuggwithu Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.saltwaterspace.com/Green-Bubble-Coral/i-need-help-with-my-new-saltwater-tank/#comment-254 i agree..sounds like a normal diatom bloom..( have you thought of cycleing a tank with some supermarket shrimp..since there dead already it doesnt put the damsels thru the torture..here's a site devoted to saltwater fish keeping... www.reefbuzz.com i agree..sounds like a normal diatom bloom..( have you thought of cycleing a tank with some supermarket shrimp..since there dead already it doesnt put the damsels thru the torture..here’s a site devoted to saltwater fish keeping…
http://www.reefbuzz.com

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