Im on day 2 of the cycle... and before i tell you anything else... i ordered a heater lol. (stole it to start my 10g xD)
Anyways... i have a 29gallon that i started cycling (day 3 now) I have 2 questions about this though..
1. Does it matter if i have a heater or not during the cycle? id figure it would just slow down the cycle.. but not stop it?
2. Will only having 10lbs of liverock with a 20lb bag of live sand be enough to start the tank on its way? (will get 30+lbs of liverock.. or uncured rock soon.. but its not cheap x.x)
28gal nanocube, 35 pounds of LR, 150w 10k MH lighting, stock skimmer, visi-therm heater.
diamond goby, clown fish, firefish.
5-10 dwarf hermits, a skunk cleaner shrimp, 3 peppermint shrimp, 4 turbo snails, a fighting conch, a halloween hermit, a (fanless) coco worm, a feather duster, 2 crocea clams.
red/green prizm favia, blasto frag, green tip frogspawn, torch, purple/blue acan, electric green zoos, hitchiker palythoas, trumpet frag, orange ric. mushroom, dieing wells brain coral.
pretty sure thats every thing!
oh yeah, 55g aggressive (mixed) Fowlr in the works!
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no heater nessecary (depending on how cold it actually gets without one)
and you may be able to cycle with that but to be sure, throw in a cocktail shrimp for at least a day or 2. that should ensure a cycle! =]
Good luck!
ive just been sprinkling a few flake foods.. and put in 2 shrimp pellets lol. its new... and im not unfamilure with a fishless cycle.. just not familure with one of the salt kind .
The water is probably close to 59-74 degrees.. kinda hard to tell.. but its cold lol
Anything that will rot will help the cycle. A heater is not super important but it will help some of the hitchhickers to survive.
You can save money by using base rock. I like to use about 75% base to 25% LR.
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46g SW bowfront, 196W Coralife PC fixture, 2x 100W heaters on a Johnson Controls controller, AquaC Remora Pro skimmer (Mag3 pump), Marineland Magnum HOT cannister, Marineland 100 Penguin Biowheel (for transfer to QT), and a Koralia 2.
70 lb of live rock, and 4+" sand bed.
Various nassarius, turbo, trochus, astrea snails, a Tongan conch, and 4 small hermits, as well as a skunk cleaner shrimp.
3x Blue Chromis, Bangaii Cardinal, O.Clown, and a yellow clown goby.
Mostly LPS corals, with a few SPS thrown in high in the tank.
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