Hi all!!!!! First of all please accept my apologies for my inexperience. This is my first reef and would love to learn from you all.
Her name is Solana 34G. Currently she has 1'' live Tropic Eden miniflake. About 25G of live water transferred from my friend's tank and the rest is fresh RO/DI water. I also gave her 15lbs of cured live rocks from my friend's tank, they stayed out for a little more than an hour so hopefully that's fine. I'm on my 2nd day and stayed up whole night last night trying to do some rockscape :crazy1:
Currently no live stock. After doing some research, I'll be cycling it with the light off, heater on. However I still have some unclear items:
1/ Do I need to run the skimmer?
2/ Currently the stock return pump is running. I have the MP10 ready but do I need to run it now?
3/ How do I know when the cycle will be over? Don't I have to test for certain chemistry such as ammo, nitrite, nitrate????
4/ When or if I should add live stock like shrimp or fish to help the cycle?
I appreciate all your feedback in advance. :reading:
Her name is Solana 34G. Currently she has 1'' live Tropic Eden miniflake. About 25G of live water transferred from my friend's tank and the rest is fresh RO/DI water. I also gave her 15lbs of cured live rocks from my friend's tank, they stayed out for a little more than an hour so hopefully that's fine. I'm on my 2nd day and stayed up whole night last night trying to do some rockscape :crazy1:
Currently no live stock. After doing some research, I'll be cycling it with the light off, heater on. However I still have some unclear items:
1/ Do I need to run the skimmer?
2/ Currently the stock return pump is running. I have the MP10 ready but do I need to run it now?
3/ How do I know when the cycle will be over? Don't I have to test for certain chemistry such as ammo, nitrite, nitrate????
4/ When or if I should add live stock like shrimp or fish to help the cycle?
I appreciate all your feedback in advance. :reading: