ekean45
Aquarium Advice Activist
I have a 60 gallon (48”L X 13”W X 24”H) that recently completed cycling.
While it was cycling, I had a yellow tail damsel, 4 turbo snails, 2 emerald crabs, peppermint shrimp and and arrowhead crab.
During the cycling process, I used
Does this seem that I am going in the right direction as far as what the test results should be reading?
I've been getting overload advice from a ton of different websites that a newly cycled tank saying nitrates should never go over 20 while some have said not to go over 40. What are your thoughts?
Again with the overload advice, my plans are to now do a 15-20% water change about every 1 1/2 to 2 weeks of the first year and then 20% once a month. Thoughts?
I'm going to wait about a year to add corals to make sure I can keep fish alive! I'll then go to a good LED light system.
While it was cycling, I had a yellow tail damsel, 4 turbo snails, 2 emerald crabs, peppermint shrimp and and arrowhead crab.
During the cycling process, I used
- Seachem Stability (daily)
- Alpha (daily)
- Iodine (for the inverts).
- SeaClone 100 Protein Skimmer (off during cycling - just turned on)
- AA Aquarium UV sterilizer – 24Watt (off during cycling - just turned on)
- Marineland Emperor 400 BIO-Wheel Powerfilter
- Fluval M200 heater.
- Salinity: 1.023
- PH: 8.3
- Amm: 0
- Nitrite: 0
- Nitrate: 40
Does this seem that I am going in the right direction as far as what the test results should be reading?
I've been getting overload advice from a ton of different websites that a newly cycled tank saying nitrates should never go over 20 while some have said not to go over 40. What are your thoughts?
Again with the overload advice, my plans are to now do a 15-20% water change about every 1 1/2 to 2 weeks of the first year and then 20% once a month. Thoughts?
I'm going to wait about a year to add corals to make sure I can keep fish alive! I'll then go to a good LED light system.