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DEL 707 said:
That's a nice very nice coloured toadstool.
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Annoyingly, despite being advertised as reef safe, our Blue Star Damels nip at it, either thinking it’s food or trying to clean food off it, resulting in it being more closed than open these days. Reef aquariums definitely aren’t straightforward!
 
I really would like a fish tank setup, somehow I used to keep tropical fish and it is something I would like to get back into on a larger scale. Now though after seeing the various pictures on here I would want a marine setup, I just don't have the room now unfortunately, the only place there is suitable space is in the home cinema, which I doubt 1-2 times a week that the rumble from the subwoofer would be ideal for the fish and the light from the tank wouldn't be ideal for home theater.
 
Always a bit nervous returning after a few days away, but all good, despite the hot weather.

Reef tank - 28.5C even with the lid off, but everything seems ok. Need to replace a couple of corals in the autumn. The three anemones have moved back together and have booted the Xenia out the way, they love the top spot. They’ve returned to their bubble tipped form too.

Planted tank - having adjusted the light spectrum the plants are now growing rapidly. We also have a few tiny baby fish :)

Turtle tank - the turtles are more active than ever and seem to be growing. They also seemed hungry this morning, they are learning to come straight out for the bloodworms. There are also some tiny baby fish in this tank :)

 
If nitrates are going up, the stable is working. The another deal with the ammonia grow much faster than those which deal with the nitrite.

If you are seeing nitrates, the nitrite will drop in a few days.

Don’t forget bacteria grows via cell division, it literally doubles each time, you go from not a lot to done in a few days once it gets going.
 
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DEL 707 said:
Only thing I'm worried about is harming my ammonia bacteria.
Do I stop dosing and just let ammonia sit at 0 now?
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No, they’ll need some ammonia to survive. You’re probably not far off adding some hardy fish to keep a low dose of ammonia going, but that’s good that ammonia is staying at 0 and immediately getting converted to nitrite. That’ll eventually happen to the nitrites too.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
I’m very much in the camp of bung in a bottle of bacteria these days. You can get the cycling process done in a few days or a week tops.
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Tried that myself with these "Reef Balance" bacteria balls that the LFS recommended, then I added Dr Tims "One and Only" on tuesday. Its been nearly 3 weeks at this point.
Still going slow, but I have had a nice suprise today, nitrite had a big drop overnight, looks like just under 2ppm, so I'm dosing ammonia again.
 
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A bad day at the office in my tank :(

When doing a water change and removing some water via a syphon hose, I nipped into the kitchen to grab a drink.

When I returned a tiger barb was stuck head first in the pipe. I tried reviving him but he died :(

They are so inquisitive, I usually stand there swishing about a chopstick to keep them away from the sucking end of the hose.

Also, when restarting the pumps after refilling the tank, my surface skimmer was not pumping water..

A golden wonder killifish had managed to jump in the skimmer from the top and was jammed head first in the impeller!

She too was dead :(

So, im going to make a little baffle to place over the sucking end of my syphon, maybe a ball pit ball full of small holes.

For the surface skimmer I'll glue a little gauze cover over the top.
 
Cycles taken a suprise turn, not sure if it's to do with that Dr Tims "One and only".
Doesd ammonia yesterday and both ammonia and nitrite were close to 0 today.
Dosed some more ammomia and praying that tomorrow they hit 0, because I have tuesday booked off which means I could finally add a fish!

If not, the tank should definitely be ready for an addition by next weekend.
 
Got my heart set on a yellow clown goby.

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Was also thinking of adding a GSP coral, but I'm unsure, some people say you can add easy corals once the cycles finished, others say to wait at least a month.
 
DEL 707 said:
Cycles taken a suprise turn, not sure if it's to do with that Dr Tims "One and only".
Doesd ammonia yesterday and both ammonia and nitrite were close to 0 today.
Dosed some more ammomia and praying that tomorrow they hit 0, because I have tuesday booked off which means I could finally add a fish!

If not, the tank should definitely be ready for an addition by next weekend.
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A "qualifying week" where 2-4ppm ammonia is converted to nitrate each day, with no ammonia or nitrite preent ~12 hours later, would be a safer approach before adding life to the tank.

Found another one of my ~11 year old Pareutropius mandevillei dead a couple of days ago, a less common similar species to P. buffei, which I ordered the 25 expecting but happy to receive the rarer midwater diurnal schoaling catfish.

Like some of my other fish, they've far outlived typical lifespans from limited info out there of ~5 years! Very old vid clip...

 
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DEL 707 said:
Got my heart set on a yellow clown goby.

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Was also thinking of adding a GSP coral, but I'm unsure, some people say you can add easy corals once the cycles finished, others say to wait at least a month.
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I had one of these in my nano, pretty cool fish, spent its time perched on rocks so was always visible.
 
Unfortunately the bacteria gods are still not on my side. So no goby yet.
Nitrites are dropping just below 0.5ppm after 24 hours. Here's hoping it's sorted for the weekend.

Did get my jumpguard put into place today though, so wasn't a complete waste of a day off.

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