does every new tank cycle

[birdbait1]

how long does it take for a new tank to cycle. I've got a smaller Nano. Oceanic bio-cube 14. I bought prem LR (Loaded with worms and pods) I also used Live sand. Been up 1 week and haven't had any ammonia spike. Does every new tank cycle?

 

[bertoni]

Tanks with clean live rock often avoid the ammonia spike phase. Nothing to worry about. I'd wait another week or so and then add a cleanup crew.

 

[birdbait1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9440067#post9440067 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bertoni
Tanks with clean live rock often avoid the ammonia spike phase. Nothing to worry about. I'd wait another week or so and then add a cleanup crew.

what would you get for a clean-up crew

 

[Reno Reef]

The live rock I got for my newly set up BC14 were smaller pieces from a LFS's ~300G curing tank they keep their live rock in.

The pieces were smaller and had been sitting in this thing for who knows how long (maybe months)

So when I got them home and in my BC the cycle was very small.

 

[bertoni]

For a 14g setup, I'd just add 2-3 snails, a Trochus and perhaps a cerith, if available, or a few Stomatella. Then add more on an as-needed basis.

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

they all cycle. the difference is how intensely they cycle.

some peak smaller than the ability to measure.

everytime the bioload shifts, the tank recycles, but usually you don't notice or you get like a weird trace nitrite reading for a couple days, whatever. so the first cycle isn't the end of it.

If you cycled with cured LR for instance and registered a trace of everything, then you threw a bunch of fish in, the tank would have to go through another cycle because the bioload was massively increased.


now that 3-day old 55gal GARF tank with the 8 or more fish in it already, that one should be a beefy spike example, unless they can add enough nitrosomonas booster etc to eat the ammonia as it is made