Hey all!
New to this group and so far I’ve already found a wealth of information.
We got a marine fish tank 120L it’s the
We got it it Sunday (yesterday) did some research before getting it, but that was mainly on the set up of the tank itself.
We set it up yesterday added shop brought salted water (don’t have the RO unit todo it ourselves yet, 2nd hand tank doing this all on a small budget)
Add our dry rock, and marine sand then added Evolution Aqua PURE Reef Balance
For the bacteria- we then left the tank for several hours it recommends 4.8balls for our tank so we just added 5.
Didn’t realise at this point we needed to add ammonia, went for fishless cycle and added Dr tim ammonia to get it to 2MG/L
Done a lot of research since then and confident on the next steps to take.
But my question and a mistake I think I’ve made is, the bacteria balls were added to the filtration part of the sump where we have bio-media balls
But I kept the sponges and the filtration sock on after adding the balls. So my very long winded question (sorry) is by keeping the sponges and sock on have I effectively filtered out the bacteria? Does it work like that? And is it worth maybe adding another ball or two into the sump and or tank itself?
As I say in confidence on next steps to get it cycled basically just waiting and testing, just want to make sure I’ve not hindered any bacteria growth by having the filter sock etc on. I also assume the bio-media balls aren’t going to cause any problems? Or should I remove them as well.
The protein skimmer has not been on simply because it’s broken and I need to get another one at some stage
Thanks guys and girls
Matt.
New to this group and so far I’ve already found a wealth of information.
We got a marine fish tank 120L it’s the
AQUA ONE MINIREEF 120 AQUARIUM & CABINET - WHITE
We got it it Sunday (yesterday) did some research before getting it, but that was mainly on the set up of the tank itself.
We set it up yesterday added shop brought salted water (don’t have the RO unit todo it ourselves yet, 2nd hand tank doing this all on a small budget)
Add our dry rock, and marine sand then added Evolution Aqua PURE Reef Balance
For the bacteria- we then left the tank for several hours it recommends 4.8balls for our tank so we just added 5.
Didn’t realise at this point we needed to add ammonia, went for fishless cycle and added Dr tim ammonia to get it to 2MG/L
Done a lot of research since then and confident on the next steps to take.
But my question and a mistake I think I’ve made is, the bacteria balls were added to the filtration part of the sump where we have bio-media balls
But I kept the sponges and the filtration sock on after adding the balls. So my very long winded question (sorry) is by keeping the sponges and sock on have I effectively filtered out the bacteria? Does it work like that? And is it worth maybe adding another ball or two into the sump and or tank itself?
As I say in confidence on next steps to get it cycled basically just waiting and testing, just want to make sure I’ve not hindered any bacteria growth by having the filter sock etc on. I also assume the bio-media balls aren’t going to cause any problems? Or should I remove them as well.
The protein skimmer has not been on simply because it’s broken and I need to get another one at some stage
Thanks guys and girls
Matt.