What are you cycling with? Need rock or substrate or something for bacteria to colonize on. They don’t grow in the water column. They need surface area
My stability is instability I do 50% a week to keep my parameters high and nitrates low without testing. In this tank salinity swings are a bigger issue because it is such a small tank.
yo man if u want advice send me a message and ill help ..I see you had alot of die off..I been doing this for 15 years..I'm no expert but I'm pretty decent at this...Your just beginning and that's cool but seek out advice.I can help u succeed in keeping a reef tank.
@@milkspotscausemetospazzout6813 I only keep nano tanks I have a 13.5 and a 20g this is my third year of keeping tanks and I’ve progressed a lot and man it’s quite a lot of trial and error
@@milkspotscausemetospazzout6813hi im planning to start one on my own I badly need help I'm eager and easily taught. im keen in listening specially to when I really want to do it im from ph I need your advices
can't cycle without instructing bacteria and lighting, thenonly thing your doing effectively is letting the chlorine dissolve. still patience is key, you got that down
@Nisha_PD corals are animals and they can and will die from thing like imbalance of ammonia and nitrate, as someone who has many years of reef keeping experience I can deff say they do need a cycle don't spread miss information do your research there's plenty of forms like BRS if ypu need any guidance
You can do it if your cycling your tank- there isn’t going to be any difference in doing it in a bucket vs doing it in a tank there’s no bacteria yet in the first place, It’s like saying to wash your previous used tank media with chlorinated water, if you do it before there bacteria it’s fine after it’s not.
Dude is cycling a bare bottom, empty tank
Yea true it’s better to already put the sand filter and the live rocks while cycling the water for two weeks or more
yep. so BB grows on all surfaces , alsoall these things are %10000 easier to add without water
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cant wait to see the next post
Best salt mix you will ever use !!!
you need live rock to cycle a saltwater
Don’t need live
you need rock tho. It's porous so bacteria can live in it and turn it to live rock
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You do if u want it to smell
Like ocean and get algae faster but u don’t need it really it’s just healthier
You don’t need live rock, but it’s good to have some sort of rock like dry rock, or live rock to collect the bacteria
@@hakman239yea you do
I suggest more research
What are you cycling with? Need rock or substrate or something for bacteria to colonize on. They don’t grow in the water column. They need surface area
He has filter media that is made for this very thing.
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Starti g o. The hardest difficulty XD
Switch salts, try reef crystals or tropic marine reef pro. The alk is too high in the Red Sea black bucket, you’ll have huge alk swings in ur tank.
My stability is instability I do 50% a week to keep my parameters high and nitrates low without testing. In this tank salinity swings are a bigger issue because it is such a small tank.
yo man if u want advice send me a message and ill help ..I see you had alot of die off..I been doing this for 15 years..I'm no expert but I'm pretty decent at this...Your just beginning and that's cool but seek out advice.I can help u succeed in keeping a reef tank.
@@milkspotscausemetospazzout6813 I only keep nano tanks I have a 13.5 and a 20g this is my third year of keeping tanks and I’ve progressed a lot and man it’s quite a lot of trial and error
@@milkspotscausemetospazzout6813hi im planning to start one on my own I badly need help I'm eager and easily taught. im keen in listening specially to when I really want to do it im from ph I need your advices
Use blue bucket salt
Hows it doing now?
can't cycle without instructing bacteria and lighting, thenonly thing your doing effectively is letting the chlorine dissolve. still patience is key, you got that down
You don't need that. A piece of food or dead matter will do the same over a longer period.
Don't need lights for nitrifying bacteria but definitely need an ammonia source
2 week cycle?? They will ne dead in a a few weeks after you need to cycle until you parameters are good especially for coral
Coral don't need a cycle. The cycle is for fish. You can definitely cycle a tank in 2 weeks.
@Nisha_PD corals are animals and they can and will die from thing like imbalance of ammonia and nitrate, as someone who has many years of reef keeping experience I can deff say they do need a cycle don't spread miss information do your research there's plenty of forms like BRS if ypu need any guidance
@@morgann3754 def not spreading misinformation. We can agree to disagree 👍🏿
You can't put coral in 2 weeks
That’s not how it works you should circle it when you have sand and rocks you don’t need to circle plain saltwater
I did saltwater->coral->live rock->fish
Where the skimmer tho
2 weeks? LMAO
Do not ever mix the salt into the tank. You MUST mix them separately.
Not if there’s no animals and cycle hasn’t started lol
@@BandE-Exotics wrong, the salt will NOT mix. It will settle at the bottom.
@@mordecai9856 lol ok bud
You can do it if your cycling your tank- there isn’t going to be any difference in doing it in a bucket vs doing it in a tank there’s no bacteria yet in the first place, It’s like saying to wash your previous used tank media with chlorinated water, if you do it before there bacteria it’s fine after it’s not.
@@BandE-Exotics you have no idea what you are talking about lol I have tried this and all the salt does is settle at the bottom “bro”
Don’t have to cycle for corals
If you just let it run then that’s not cycling and corals do not do well in new tank you should havedone research
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No need to cycle the tank if you are only going to have corals. Cycling is for the fish.
Ohh I thought you have to cycle the tank to add corals aswell
@MrKantstop13 nope. The cycling is for the ammonia that the fish produce that will kill them in an uncyled tank.
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