Hey everyone,
I started a 28G nano cube about 10 days ago. I have about 25-30lbs of live rock in there. I started with about 15lbs of base rock and let it sit in a refugium of a friend's established tank for a few weeks prior. He also gave me some smaller rocks from his tank along with Arag-alive reef sand. I added about 12-13lbs more of live rock from a lfs about a 5 days later. I added a blue/green chromis to help create waste and now I have three crabs and three snails in there. All are doing great, ammonia has hit .25-.5 ppm a couple days ago, Nitrite hasn't budged, .25 ppm at most, nitrate has ranged from 0 to 20 ppm. My most recent test yesterday was ph- 8-8.2, ammonia - 0, nitrite - 0, and nitrate 15-20ppm. What should I be looking for, a large ammonia spike first, larger than what I've seen?
Any help would be appreciated bc I have a "large" (two clowns, pistol and goby, and a few corals) collection of fish and live stock in a buddy's nano and 75g, I don't know if he appreciates it or not. IMO I think he'll be sad when they're gone.
Thanks in advance.
I started a 28G nano cube about 10 days ago. I have about 25-30lbs of live rock in there. I started with about 15lbs of base rock and let it sit in a refugium of a friend's established tank for a few weeks prior. He also gave me some smaller rocks from his tank along with Arag-alive reef sand. I added about 12-13lbs more of live rock from a lfs about a 5 days later. I added a blue/green chromis to help create waste and now I have three crabs and three snails in there. All are doing great, ammonia has hit .25-.5 ppm a couple days ago, Nitrite hasn't budged, .25 ppm at most, nitrate has ranged from 0 to 20 ppm. My most recent test yesterday was ph- 8-8.2, ammonia - 0, nitrite - 0, and nitrate 15-20ppm. What should I be looking for, a large ammonia spike first, larger than what I've seen?
Any help would be appreciated bc I have a "large" (two clowns, pistol and goby, and a few corals) collection of fish and live stock in a buddy's nano and 75g, I don't know if he appreciates it or not. IMO I think he'll be sad when they're gone.
Thanks in advance.