My new nano!! NEW PICS!

just to let you know any established tank will have minute traces o nitrite, and 0.05 is considered minute, the things that identify whether the tank is cycled is ammonia phosphates and nitrate. i do have experience and this in no way shows i do not. i am not doing anything incorrect as the tank has completely been cycled. like i have said this is just a major misunderstanding..... i also got the thermometer lol

 

thank you!! quite the opposite of what i expected from a new post!! haha. yes that is only 5 pounds so it suprised me that it filled it that much. im going into town this weekend so im gonna get like a mushroom rock or something. hopefully that will seed this rock enough

 

Nitrogen Cycle

"[FONT=arial, Arial, Helvetica]The nitrogen cycle is composed of 4 basic steps.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial, Arial, Helvetica]Ammonia: Ammonia (NH3) initially enters the system via biological waste. These wastes may come from fish poop or dead organisms which are decaying in the tank. These wastes mineralize into the compound ammonia. Ammonia is a very toxic compound. Bacteria which colonize rock and sand surfaces utilize ammonia as food and convert it into a new compound called nitrite. Ammonia should always measure zero in a fully cycled tank.[/FONT]​

[FONT=arial, Arial, Helvetica]Nitrite: Nitrite (NO2) is only slightly less toxic than ammonia. Fortunately, there are other types of bacteria that also colonize sand and rock surfaces which consume nitrites as food and convert them into nitrates. Nitrites should always measure zero in a fully cycled tank.[/FONT]​

[FONT=arial, Arial, Helvetica]Nitrate: Nitrate (NO3) is a relatively harmless compound. Nitrates tend to accumulate in the reef system if it is not setup correctly. Fish can tolerate fairly high nitrate levels, but most corals do not. Nitrate is also a plant fertilizer, so its accumulation can lead to algae problems. The brute force way to control nitrates is to do large water changes and therefore dilute the nitrate levels, but there is a better, more natural way to deal with nitrates. Nitrates in a fully cycled tank should ideally remain at zero, but up to about 20ppm is acceptable. Higher levels may lead to issues with coral health or algae growth in the tank. Some corals may actually benefit from the higher nitrate levels, but they are atypical.[/FONT]​

[FONT=arial, Arial, Helvetica]Nitrogen: In a properly setup reef tank, the nitrates can be further processed by special types of bacteria which convert the nitrates into harmless nitrogen gases which escape into the atmosphere. When the process includes this step, the nitrogen cycle is completed and the tank will maintain zero nitrates without significant water changes or the requirement for specialized external equipment to remove it from the system. The key to this final step is to provide oxygen poor areas of sand or rock. The bacteria which perform this last step of the process only live in oxygen poor (anaerobic) areas of the tank. The surest way to establish these anaerobic areas is to include a sand bed that has sufficient depth and sufficiently small particle size to restrict water flow in the lower areas of the bed.[/FONT]"
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sorry to poke this bvb but are you sure you are not confusing nitrites and nitrates? nitrites are what needs to be monitored during a cycle, nitrate will always be present in small quanities. also what test kit are you using?

 

haha yes i believe i am mixing them up, i always though nitrite came after nitrate. and was not harmful to the fish. i will test again and put up on anothehr post guys

 

You really need to start typing what you mean the first time. I won't call you a liar but I will say your integrity is somewhere below 0ppm at this point with not only me, but quite a few other people here. That is why so many people are on you at the moment.

First your tank is 3 weeks, then 6 days, then 2 weeks 4 days. First you needed to buy salt, then you added water from the LFS. Then its live sand from a established tank, which that much be a bada$$ tank cause I never seen sand look so clean and new. Then your nitrite is 3-5, then its .05. Now you meant nitrates instead of nitrites. You either change your answer or pick a more correct answer everytime a question is asked. The hole is getting deeper each time.

It reminds me of my college english class. I dont know english, I knew jsut enough google to get by.

 

I think

if we could get a promise from bvb that he will learn from this and be more careful in the manner he speaks to other members in respect of the choices they make with their tanks
and that he does not look for any more opportunities to criticise advice given by others
simply because he thinks he is the expert on a thread and other people not sharing his opinion must be wrong


if we could get that promise, based on the valuable lesson his own thread has taught him

we should leave him alone

what does everyone else think?

 

I could not agree more.

I think the point has been made, it's time to let bvb enjoy his tank thread.

 

Excellent idea Steve.

 

khows i know you are experienced somewhat in this hobby, i also know that how all this is going down looks very fishy. the tank is 2 weeks 4 days old. i rounded that to 3 weeks. i have just retested the water and nitrites are lowering down to 0.01-2 they are fluctuating and ammonia and nitrate are still zero. the only reason i had to buy salt was because the tank leaked and it went down a bit. i really truthfully know what i am doing. i would appreciate it if we could all just drop this subject because it seems nobody trusts anyone these days. i am sticking to my word nothing has changed i just am a little stressed because all these people are jumping all over me for no good reason. i believe everyone is making a mountain out of a mole hill and reading way too far into things. i am setting this tank up to the best of my ability and it is entirely correct. if you dont believe that. then thats your problem. i am trying to say this in the most kind way. i you believe i am running my tank wrong then you can tell me that. but its not going to change the way i run it because i am doing things entirely in order.