Recent content by Nicko86

I appreciate it scully! Defenitly am excited to finally start adding things to my aquarium ( slow of course). Thinking about a pair of black clownfish and going from there. I'll post some pics of the tank later on.

Well here's an update. So I went to my LFS and talked to them about my situation and they were surprised I hadn't cycled using their process. They said that my tank was just stuck in the cycling process and that I needed a jump. Well I know this might be frowned upon but they recommended that...

Its been cycling for a month.

So in other words I need to get some ammonia and spike my tank real high till my ammonia levels just drops to 0 within 24 hours?

I appreciate it Scully. Yeah I guess I'm just going to see if it hits zero by sunday which I'm thinking it will since there's already been a drop off in the levels or atleast I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Was probably going to do a 10% water change once the ammonia hits 0 just to bring my...

Ok well this morning I checked my levels. Ammonia- 1.5-2.0ppm Nitrite- 2.0ppm Nitrate-20ppm Do I need to keep my ammonia levels up or just allow it to drop to 0 on it's own now that it's spiked? This whole water cycle can get pretty confusing cause everyone does it different and every tank...

My ammonia levels were staying about 0.25ppm, nitrites 0ppm, nitrates 0ppm for 2 weeks straight. I tested my water and here are my new readings. Ammonia- 3.0ppm Nitrite- 1.0ppm Nitrate- 10ppm Now do I need to do a water change or just allow the cycle to do its thing? I'm not really sure if im...

Well 2 weeks ago I had a really bad algae problem. That lime green algae was everywhere and it finally died off and my tank was cloudy for a day or so. It cleared up and I really haven't had any problems algae wise so I'm guessing it could of been from the die off. I have not been adding any...

Hi everyone. I have 29g Oceanic Biocube with 30 pounds of live sand, 25 pounds of live rock, and is on its 3rd week of cycling. Everything has been going great it seems. Algae has died off and turned brown on the rocks and really hasn't been a problem for over a week now. I did find out today...