Dary421
Aquarium Advice Addict
Hi guys,... I just started to cycle my75 gal tank a liitle over a week ago , R/O water ,80# of live sand and close to 80#'s of live rock,...after a week so of running my system the most I ever saw my ammonia spike up to was .25 ppm,..beautiful clear water with no bad smell at all,..curious I went to talk to my LFS guy who told me that a client had brought in a couple of hundred pounds of cured live rock from his system a day or two before and I had received a whole lot of that rock,....in the last day or so I have gotten a very rapid growth of diatoms covering my live rocks,....if I've read right ,these diatoms start at the end of the tank's cycle and signals the end.,..I also read that they will disappear on their own also.
He stated that the LFS usually always start up their tanks up using "cured" rocks from established aquariums so they do not have to run thru the curing cycles everytime and can start loading their tanks with critters right away for sale.
Does it sound like I got really lucky here?? I just want to make sure that this is the case before I do a PWC and start adding a critter or two.
I plan on letting the tank run another week or so on it's own anyways even it has run it's course,...thank you all
He stated that the LFS usually always start up their tanks up using "cured" rocks from established aquariums so they do not have to run thru the curing cycles everytime and can start loading their tanks with critters right away for sale.
Does it sound like I got really lucky here?? I just want to make sure that this is the case before I do a PWC and start adding a critter or two.
I plan on letting the tank run another week or so on it's own anyways even it has run it's course,...thank you all