Two questions for you all tonight,
I have had my tank filled and cycling for over 9 days with 125 pounds dry Marco Rock and 120 pounds marco sand with 4 Krill that I normally feed to my FW fish, is that enough to start a cycle? I added a raw shrimp over 24 hours ago just to see if that will give it a boost but so far 0's across the board for ammonia nitrate and nitrites. I thought I was getting a bump in Nitrates last Wed but that was it.
is it possible adding approximately 40 pounds of real live rock 4 days ago is a enough BB to defeat the cycle? is that bad or good if it was.
2nd question I bought 12ish pounds of premium fiji live rock from Krystal clear in auburn and I picked the most live looking rocks with stuff growing on it out of their bins (slim pickins) but it has a lot of algae, is there such a thing as bad algae, it looks real healthy and I am hoping it will be good to propagate through the tank. I am keeping the lights on because I bought about 25 pounds of live rock from someone that had nice coraline growing already and wanted to keep that going.
Should I put the rock with algae in my fuge hoping for die off because I have no light in there yet or will it be be beneficial in main tank?
Sorry for the boring pics but I think pics are the only way to explain how the algae looks
this one has the most flowing algae
This one has quite a bit too the white specs are from when I put it in the sand when I first got it.
And this is the coraline I am trying to keep going
And the whole tank to get an idea of the ratio of dry to live rock
Opinions on the algae would be greatly appreciated as well as what I can expect for cycling in this scenario
Thanks
I have had my tank filled and cycling for over 9 days with 125 pounds dry Marco Rock and 120 pounds marco sand with 4 Krill that I normally feed to my FW fish, is that enough to start a cycle? I added a raw shrimp over 24 hours ago just to see if that will give it a boost but so far 0's across the board for ammonia nitrate and nitrites. I thought I was getting a bump in Nitrates last Wed but that was it.
is it possible adding approximately 40 pounds of real live rock 4 days ago is a enough BB to defeat the cycle? is that bad or good if it was.
2nd question I bought 12ish pounds of premium fiji live rock from Krystal clear in auburn and I picked the most live looking rocks with stuff growing on it out of their bins (slim pickins) but it has a lot of algae, is there such a thing as bad algae, it looks real healthy and I am hoping it will be good to propagate through the tank. I am keeping the lights on because I bought about 25 pounds of live rock from someone that had nice coraline growing already and wanted to keep that going.
Should I put the rock with algae in my fuge hoping for die off because I have no light in there yet or will it be be beneficial in main tank?
Sorry for the boring pics but I think pics are the only way to explain how the algae looks
this one has the most flowing algae
This one has quite a bit too the white specs are from when I put it in the sand when I first got it.
And this is the coraline I am trying to keep going
And the whole tank to get an idea of the ratio of dry to live rock
Opinions on the algae would be greatly appreciated as well as what I can expect for cycling in this scenario
Thanks