Dr tims timeline

[Devi]

Finally. Finally freaking cycled. I will never do this again. Live rock the next time for sure! I fired up the GFO reactor and the skimmer just to get them going and broken in.

So that stupid Xenia I hate are going in first. If they die so be it.

 

[banjowalker]

Finally. Finally freaking cycled. I will never do this again. Live rock the next time for sure! I fired up the GFO reactor and the skimmer just to get them going and broken in.

So that stupid Xenia I hate are going in first. If they die so be it.

Be careful running gfo. My tank is too clean right now and my corals are losing color because of it. My bio load isn't heavy enough for gfo

 

[Devi]

You know Dr. Tim's said that same thing on the bottle. They said start slow, so I have two tablespoons in there now. I'm still reading nitrates and I have a bit of a bacteria bloom, mostly on the inside of the glass, but I moved all the corals over, the shrimp, and my five hermits and three snails. I'm feeding the hermits and snails algae wafers and shrimp to the shrimp. Everything is doing really well. Acclimating to light but they seem to love the new tank. That stupid snail of Mine did a run of the whole tank. 5 to 40 gallons, must have blown his mind. So far using ammonia with surfacants has had no effect. It did however make my Skimmer hard to dial in at first.

 

[banjowalker]

You know Dr. Tim's said that same thing on the bottle. They said start slow, so I have two tablespoons in there now. I'm still reading nitrates and I have a bit of a bacteria bloom, mostly on the inside of the glass, but I moved all the corals over, the shrimp, and my five hermits and three snails. I'm feeding the hermits and snails algae wafers and shrimp to the shrimp. Everything is doing really well. Acclimating to light but they seem to love the new tank. That stupid snail of Mine did a run of the whole tank. 5 to 40 gallons, must have blown his mind. So far using ammonia with surfacants has had no effect. It did however make my Skimmer hard to dial in at first.

Good to hear you're having success.

 

[Devi]

Yeah so everything is predictably doing well, in fact I don't think I needed to acclimate to light. Par 38 to a Kessil seemed a huge jump but I bumped it up to normal and got full extension. Adding fish today.