New to saltwater need some help

[Bsnow0410]

Originally Posted by BigRedsReefs10

Fat thumbs sorry

Haha yea that'll happen

[Bsnow0410]

Finally got my hydor 1150 and wow does it push my water a lot better then any of my others. So nice but blows some sand around still letting it settle

[deckaman225]

What I have been told is when your ammonia and nitrites go to zero add another ammonia source and if that goes back to zero then do a water change and ur ready for fish but I don't think nitrate has to go all the way too 0!!

[deckaman225]

Lol was reading an earlier post and didn't change the page so I answered a question that was already answered sorry lol!!

[Bsnow0410]

Originally Posted by deckaman225

Lol was reading an earlier post and didn't change the page so I answered a question that was already answered sorry lol!!

Haha it's all good more info for me and that what I'm gunna when my parameters hit zero. Throw a piece of raw shrimp in and see where it goes again

[Bsnow0410]

Also added 30pounds more of live sand so I have about and inch and half to two inches now at about 90 pounds and 95 pounds of live rock...so far

[BigRedsReefs10]

Originally Posted by Bsnow0410

Haha it's all good more info for me and that what I'm gunna when my parameters hit zero. Throw a piece of raw shrimp in and see where it goes again

How did you cycle the tank to begin with? If you want to test your cycle, I would use pure ammonia. Dose it up to 1 ppm and if it's completely converted to nitrate in 24 hours you should be good. Throwing another shrimp in there will produce another ammonia spike and take longer

[deckaman225]

Ok cool I just gotta find some but with the shrimp I was thinking just leave it in for a day test and if it's around 1-2 ppm take it out then count 24 hrs from then would that work??

[Bsnow0410]

So I had alittle floodage this morning when I woke up. I decided to turn the system off over night to see what would happen just in case and my sump flooded. Also if anybody could tell me what a stringy white type algae looking stuff is?

[Bsnow0410]

I think my cycle may be done. It's been 27 days to the exact time haha. About 6 days ago threw another shrimp in to see if it'd jump and go down and the ammonia went up no to much about 2 ppms then nitrites about 1 ppm now seem to be back down with just nitrates way up there.

[BigRedsReefs10]

Sound like your cycled then. Do a couple big wc's to get your nitrates down now

[Bsnow0410]

Originally Posted by BigRedsReefs10

Sound like your cycled then. Do a couple big wc's to get your nitrates down now

Okk thank you tons