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10-24-2004, 12:01 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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|  Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
Will the bacteria i need start growing with no salt.
Just asking because i have to wait till next week to buy salt.there is about 5lbs of salt in the tank,but it is in a 75 gallon tank.
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[img ]http://www.3reef.com/uploads/Birdsig.jpg[/img]&&75Gal,Jebo 180 skimmer,20Gal Sump/Refuge,cascade 1000 filter filled with cured liverock.&&2clowns,1yellow tang,1 niger trigger,1firefish,1scarlet cleaner,1 emerald crab,,3feather dusters,8green?????,3 blue legged hermit crabs,30 Yellow polyps and one Striped mushroom.30lbs Of live rock so far.
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10-24-2004, 01:09 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Clinton Twp, Michigan Age: 27
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| Re: Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
That is a double edge sword. Yes your tank will start to cycle without salt. BUT this would create freshwater bacteria and not saltwater bacteria. So once you add your salt that bacteria will die.
So in all actuality the answer is no.
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10-24-2004, 02:38 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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| Re: Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
BUMMER | |
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10-24-2004, 02:42 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
Yup. Plus your skimmer won't work in fresh water.....  _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch  | |
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10-24-2004, 02:58 PM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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| Re: Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
Skimmer; We don't need no stinkin skimmers!!
:-)  :-)
Just a ton of live rock and corals.
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90 Gallon glass, 135#'s of rock and 2" sand. 2-250w 20k XM metal halides. 2-95 watt actinic VHO, 4 powerheads, Coralife skimmer. Maroon Gold Striped Clown, Blue Chromis, Kole Tang, Pygmy Angel, Serpent Star, Brittle Star,Gorgonians, Mushrooms, Yellow Polyps, Turbo Snails & Blue Legged Hermits. 20 gal sump with Caulerpa, Mag 7 return pump. | |
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10-24-2004, 03:03 PM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
Well, Diver...I do know people that don't run skimmers and they have good success......I however, cannot wrap my mind around that one! If you have ever cleaned a skimmer cup out, you would probably always run one! Plus, it was in John's sig that he had one so....
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10-25-2004, 12:59 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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| Re: Can i start the cycling process with no salt.
Yeah ya should run a skimmer.what if a sea anen-anen-anennememe(dont hurt yourself kid) should croak or sumthin else,you got mr.skimmer to save the day | |
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