Main Menu
| |
Get on the Map!
| |
Forum Menu
| | 
02-19-2008, 12:15 AM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chennai, India Age: 38
Posts: 76
Karma: 29
 
|  New here and in doubt!
Hi,
Hope you all are doing well with your tanks. I have recently set up a tank with live rock and fish. I just want your opinion to make sure I'm on the right track.My tank is just 18 days old.
I added the fish ( one clown and two blue damsels) on the thrid day of running my tank with just a few scattered dead rock. I added the LR on the 6th of this month.To my surprise, the fish withstood the spike and are doing fine. The LR showed close to little activity but since two days, I see a fine greenish brownish goldenish carpet like growth on many of them.There is no other growth of this kind any where else in the tank...just the rocks.
I have been changing water. I use RO water and as per many other sites as well, my lighting seems ok too.
Do I need to worry abouth this growth? I read someone's thread here which says this is a part of maturing of a new tank. Is that true?
Would really appreciate your views.
Thanks. | 
|  | | Reef Links |  | |
02-19-2008, 01:16 AM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
Posts: 756
  |
Quote:
Originally Posted by zubinmajor  Hi,
Hope you all are doing well with your tanks. I have recently set up a tank with live rock and fish. I just want your opinion to make sure I'm on the right track.My tank is just 18 days old.
I added the fish ( one clown and two blue damsels) on the thrid day of running my tank with just a few scattered dead rock. I added the LR on the 6th of this month.To my surprise, the fish withstood the spike and are doing fine. The LR showed close to little activity but since two days, I see a fine greenish brownish goldenish carpet like growth on many of them.There is no other growth of this kind any where else in the tank...just the rocks.
I have been changing water. I use RO water and as per many other sites as well, my lighting seems ok too.
Do I need to worry abouth this growth? I read someone's thread here which says this is a part of maturing of a new tank. Is that true?
Would really appreciate your views.
Thanks. | Yup! It seems your tank is undergoing a cycle. Don't worry! Every time you introduce new organisms your tank undergoes changes. The bigger the biological diversity in your system the easier it adopts to changes and new inhabitants!  | |
| | |
02-19-2008, 03:40 AM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,414
 
|
Welcome to 3reef!
Slow down my friend this is not a race. There are people, including myself that cycled their tank for 12 weeks so just take your time and let Mother Nature do her job. Quit changing the water it prolongs your cycle. Next time you add fish to a new tank do it one at a time. You need to give the bacteria time to develop for the load you put on the tank. _________ 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 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
| | |
02-19-2008, 03:49 AM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
Posts: 2,122
|
How big is your tank? Agree with Otty, slow down, take your, time and research while waiting for tank to cycle. You can never research enough, IMO, lol..... Welcome to 3reef by the way! We are always glad to have you here! _________  | |
| | |
02-19-2008, 07:22 AM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,788
 
|
To 3Reef!!! Salutations! Glad to see you found way here!
Congrats on new SW tank setup.
Expect your new tank to go through a series of algae bloom cycles. Is normal.
Keep us posted on progress.
Good Luck! _________ 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..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott")
Last edited by omard; 02-19-2008 at 07:31 AM.
| |
| | |
02-19-2008, 01:43 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3,346
Karma: 4672
 
|
Welcome to 3Reef>>>>>>> | |
| | |
02-19-2008, 01:59 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 4
Karma: 1
|
I am a newbie as well... I read up on these cycles and freaked me out... I am taking it very slowly... setting up my tank tonight... then will do a live sand and rock (picking it up on friday) and let that run through its cycle... after that, then i will focus on getting my corals... i am sure there is better ways to do it, but since i am new, i am trying to be as conservative as possible.  | | |
| | |
02-19-2008, 09:29 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chennai, India Age: 38
Posts: 76
Karma: 29
|
Hey thanks a lot all of you. Yeah I guess slow and steady are the key words here. A guy who is a self proclaimed dude in reef tanks gave us an entirely different picture.He started out with telling us that it was ok to use tap water!!! Thank God for small mercies and my own sense, I disagreed with him. I think he's gonna be shown the door today when he comes.
Zubin _________ 90 gallon Reef tank. LR 176lbs, Two percula Clowns, two Blue Damsels, One Tomato clown, One regal Blue Tang Skimmer, RO, 2X150 MH at 14K, 4powerheads,2 dolphin 2300gph each, 2 canister filters, Undergravel filter http://aquariumwaters.blogspot.com/ | |
| | |
02-19-2008, 09:33 PM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chennai, India Age: 38
Posts: 76
Karma: 29
|
Hi, Thanks for your response. You all seem to be clued up guys so here goes one more.... What kind of duration of ligting should I provide during these intial stages? My tank is a 90g one and I have metal Halide lights. Is keeping it on for 4 hours then dark for two and then again two hours the right thing to do?
Thanks
Zubin
Last edited by zubinmajor; 02-19-2008 at 09:45 PM.
| |
| | |
02-19-2008, 10:26 PM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: vancouver, canada
Posts: 130
Karma: 134
|
i give my tank 10hrs day time 4hrs actinic blue and 10hrs with moonlight LED
12pm-10pm daylight
10pm-12am actinic
12am-10am moonlight
10am-12pm actinic
bac to daylight _________ 29 g biocube First tank ever 
25 lbs LR
20 lbs LS
1 oceanic protein skimmer
Filter In Middle Chamber: sponge+bioballs+Seachem biofiltration media+2 bags of activated carbon all under a drip tray.
10,000k power compact
actinic pc
3 moonlight LED
1 domino damsel
1 peppermint shrimp
2 scarlet hermits
3 hermits
3 spiny astria snails
2 turbo snails
2 fighting conch ( aquacultured) | |
| | | Reef Links |  | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -7. The time now is 07:41 PM. |
