Jetsetter57
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
First of all hello and I definitely have the salty bug now as I've always had freshwater in the past. I'll try to keep this brief.
I bought this tank on a whim for myself and my 2yr old son. It was purchased off Craigslist and it had about 20gals of water with 4 damsels. It was pretty dirty but the fish looked healthy and the pumps were all running fine. I put the fish in a 5 gal bucket and saved an additional 5 gal bucket of water and left about 2" of water with the sand still in the tank itself.
I removed the sand into a bucket and scrubbed the tank and components, including the pump with hose water to remove algae. Everything cleaned up great and I replaced fish and sand and put in a few dead rocks. I purchased the rest of the saltwater from a tropical fish store to top off tank and added "colony marine, liquid nitrifying bacteria" that treats a 50gal tank.
Will I have cycling issues? Anything else I can do except change the water a lot if the ammonia and other tests start climbing? Anything I could have done different in transferring the tank? Thanks to everyone for any advice, also the lighting gets really hot and warms up the tank 18" deep, will LED allow me to leave lights on all day?(tank looks awesome when lit)
I bought this tank on a whim for myself and my 2yr old son. It was purchased off Craigslist and it had about 20gals of water with 4 damsels. It was pretty dirty but the fish looked healthy and the pumps were all running fine. I put the fish in a 5 gal bucket and saved an additional 5 gal bucket of water and left about 2" of water with the sand still in the tank itself.
I removed the sand into a bucket and scrubbed the tank and components, including the pump with hose water to remove algae. Everything cleaned up great and I replaced fish and sand and put in a few dead rocks. I purchased the rest of the saltwater from a tropical fish store to top off tank and added "colony marine, liquid nitrifying bacteria" that treats a 50gal tank.
Will I have cycling issues? Anything else I can do except change the water a lot if the ammonia and other tests start climbing? Anything I could have done different in transferring the tank? Thanks to everyone for any advice, also the lighting gets really hot and warms up the tank 18" deep, will LED allow me to leave lights on all day?(tank looks awesome when lit)
