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01-15-2008, 04:38 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gaston, South Carolina Age: 38
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OK so my tank has been running now for 9 days now and I have 0 NH 0 NO2 0 NO3 and PH 8.2 How much longer b4 I can introduce some crab, shrimp of soft coral. | 
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01-15-2008, 04:45 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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If all of your parameters are at 0, you could add a shrimp, hermits, or snails. Were you checking your parameters throughout and did it indeed cycle?  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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01-15-2008, 04:48 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Take it slow and try and quit testing the waters so you can dump livestock in it. I let my tank cycle for 12 weeks...yep you read that correctly 12 weeks. I never tested for NH 4, NO 2 ,NO 3 because to me that is the waste of a test kit. These are things that mother nature will do with time if you give it to her. You should be checking Mg, Ca, and dHK to get those parameter rock solid before you start putting stuff in the tank. Your tank will be ready when you see coralline starting to grow. That is the sign of a healthy tank but most people can't wait that long.
All people do it different and the more you rush things the faster problems happen.....just keep that in mind!  Sorry if this is not what you wanted to hear and its just my own opinion. Other will tell you different! 
Too much money invested for me to get in a hurry! _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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01-15-2008, 04:59 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gaston, South Carolina Age: 38
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All opinions are welcome with me that is why I am here. I have had absolutely no experience with saltwater I have been a freshwater person since I was knee high to a grasshoppper. Again many thanks for the help | |
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01-15-2008, 05:01 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gaston, South Carolina Age: 38
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I have noticed that the brown out is beginning I think that is a normal part of the cycle for the tank. | |
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01-15-2008, 05:04 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Just take it slow and turn the lights off if you have them on. That is only adding fuel to algae right now. | |
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01-15-2008, 05:05 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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9 days seems very quick for a cycle, how big is you tank and what are you running _________ 
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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01-15-2008, 05:11 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gaston, South Carolina Age: 38
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It's an 8gal Oceanic bio cube tank with LS/LR. The lights have been off since day 2, all except the 2 LED moon lights which I cannot seem to turn off. | |
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01-15-2008, 05:13 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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9 days? You should wait a little longer, like 1 more month. As stated below, you should take it slow. Nothing good happens over night, only disasters. Everything will fall into place. _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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01-15-2008, 05:14 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skytechsc  It's an 8gal Oceanic bio cube tank with LS/LR. The lights have been off since day 2, all except the 2 LED moon lights which I cannot seem to turn off. | Keep them off for a few weeks. | |
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