Killion
New member
Hello everyone!
A little background for me...
I joined this forum around 4 years ago when I first set up my very first saltwater aquarium. I had 0 experience and huge expectations haha. Needless to say I have had many failures and a few successes but I felt like I was always loosing the battle in my tanks to algea and poor coral health. Eventually I needed to take a break, then another break, and yet another break from the hobby.
The break ends here!
I decided to get a little nano tank for the computer desk, especially since the wife would kill me if I tried to set up a big tank again after selling most of my bigger equipment. :headwally:
Then plan is to run a little reef and keep mainly Zoas, LPS, and SPS.
So I got the tank in the mail yesterday, set it all up, and it is not starting its cycle using Seachem Stability. Still had some old equipment boxed up in the closet like my DIY temp controller, Hydor ATO, some heaters, rock(that I started cleaning and baked in the sun for the past 2 weeks) and other random things.
I already ordered a new return pump to replace the weak 75gph pump with a Rio 600(200gph). Figured if thats not enough still I can use the stock pump in the display.
Once the cycle is complete I plan on ordering a Kessil A80 to replace the stock LEDS on the tank as well and I feel like thats all I really need to upgrade.
So wish me luck and of course here are some pictures! :beer:
(Sorry some of the pictures are sideways, not sure how to fix that..)
A little background for me...
I joined this forum around 4 years ago when I first set up my very first saltwater aquarium. I had 0 experience and huge expectations haha. Needless to say I have had many failures and a few successes but I felt like I was always loosing the battle in my tanks to algea and poor coral health. Eventually I needed to take a break, then another break, and yet another break from the hobby.
The break ends here!
I decided to get a little nano tank for the computer desk, especially since the wife would kill me if I tried to set up a big tank again after selling most of my bigger equipment. :headwally:
Then plan is to run a little reef and keep mainly Zoas, LPS, and SPS.
So I got the tank in the mail yesterday, set it all up, and it is not starting its cycle using Seachem Stability. Still had some old equipment boxed up in the closet like my DIY temp controller, Hydor ATO, some heaters, rock(that I started cleaning and baked in the sun for the past 2 weeks) and other random things.
I already ordered a new return pump to replace the weak 75gph pump with a Rio 600(200gph). Figured if thats not enough still I can use the stock pump in the display.
Once the cycle is complete I plan on ordering a Kessil A80 to replace the stock LEDS on the tank as well and I feel like thats all I really need to upgrade.
So wish me luck and of course here are some pictures! :beer:
(Sorry some of the pictures are sideways, not sure how to fix that..)
