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03-11-2008, 07:39 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canton, ga Age: 38
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 |  Hello
I just wanted to say hello and that I am new to this forum and to this hobby. I have a 24 gal aquapod with about 20 lbs of live rock and did the wrong thing but everything is going fine. I have had the tank running for eighteen days now and I have a false perc, goby, and a coral banded swrimp in it. I took a water sample to the per store about about a week and they told me my tank was already cycled. So I added the abouve items. All my readings are doing fine but im registering 0 on everything across the board. I did cut my lights offs and just have my lunar ones going to prevent so much algae growth. I used ten lbs of live sand and twenty lbs of live rock out of a reef tank that was fully cured. Is it possible that my tank is already cycled???? Bill | 
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03-11-2008, 07:46 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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To 3Reef!!! Salutations! Glad to see you found way here!
??? Tank Cycled...Possible, with "fully cured" LR. You will know soon enough if water params go sidesways and fish start to die... 
Hope for best. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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03-11-2008, 07:54 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canton, ga Age: 38
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I hope so too. The fish are eating fine and acting ok. The temp is stable at 78 to 79 degress and the salinity is 1.023. I hope that I didn't act to quickly but only time will tell....Bill... | |
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03-11-2008, 08:12 AM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Welcome!!! What's done is done... watch the livestock you have and keep an eye on param. Your not nearly as overloaded as a lot of people, you may get lucky and squeak by!!
Good luck and welcome again!!! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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03-11-2008, 08:15 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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03-11-2008, 08:51 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canton, ga Age: 38
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Thanks everybody for the great welcome.... I appreciate the advice and im taking it slow from here on out. I will watch the parameters on the tank and not add anything else for atleast another month of so...Bill | |
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03-11-2008, 09:23 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Welcome aboard mate. My suggestion to you is to find another LFS that wont give you bad advice. Even if I have cured LR and LS, your still going to go through the cycling process, maybe not as long as 12 weeks, but a cycle none the less. That LFS should know better than to sell you stuff that you dont need yet. Shame on them. _________ 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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03-11-2008, 10:29 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by billgil1  I hope so too. The fish are eating fine and acting ok. The temp is stable at 78 to 79 degress and the salinity is 1.023. I hope that I didn't act to quickly but only time will tell....Bill... | Be prepared for some quick serious water changes if tank starts to cycle.
Get fish into holding tank...
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03-12-2008, 03:15 PM
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| | Giant Squid
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