kajunram12
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Hello,
My Name is Rueben,
Me and my wife live on beautiful Oahu and are starting a salt water tank!
I wanted simple so the Nuvo 16 seems small enough and came with almost everything i need!
We picked up the water at this local water treatment facility who purifies salt water, Everything i read said it was perfect for salt water tanks.
A few local hobbyist said local beach sand works so we went with that too!
Day 1
On day 2 we picked up some live rock (the store was closed by the time i finished with the sand and water on day 1). Roughly 17 lbs. We also tested the water. Salinity 1.027, ph 7.8, nitrate 0 (i still need to do homework on what nitrate and nitrite does or means), alkalintiy 7, ammonia 0
DAy 2
Were on Day 4 now, and everything seems to be going smoothly. The live rock is growing some cool purple leaves, ive seen some green bulbs (not sure what they are), there is a bunch of purple, pink, and orange stuff spreading on the rock, ive seen a few small crabs and snails that i guess came on the rock.. and a few mollusks. All seem to be doing ok, i think the mollusks may be dying, atleast one has fallen off the rock. I do have algae growing here and there also.
I plan to buy the innovative Marine AuqaGadget Protein Skimmer soon but wasnt sure if your supposed to run them during the cycle or let it do its own thing. I got some small particles floating around but its not out of hand.
Day 4
I will do another water test on day 7 to make sure the cycle is going smoothly.. Thank you for looking. All comments and advise welcome. Thanks ahead of time!
My Name is Rueben,
Me and my wife live on beautiful Oahu and are starting a salt water tank!
I wanted simple so the Nuvo 16 seems small enough and came with almost everything i need!
We picked up the water at this local water treatment facility who purifies salt water, Everything i read said it was perfect for salt water tanks.
A few local hobbyist said local beach sand works so we went with that too!
Day 1
On day 2 we picked up some live rock (the store was closed by the time i finished with the sand and water on day 1). Roughly 17 lbs. We also tested the water. Salinity 1.027, ph 7.8, nitrate 0 (i still need to do homework on what nitrate and nitrite does or means), alkalintiy 7, ammonia 0
DAy 2
Were on Day 4 now, and everything seems to be going smoothly. The live rock is growing some cool purple leaves, ive seen some green bulbs (not sure what they are), there is a bunch of purple, pink, and orange stuff spreading on the rock, ive seen a few small crabs and snails that i guess came on the rock.. and a few mollusks. All seem to be doing ok, i think the mollusks may be dying, atleast one has fallen off the rock. I do have algae growing here and there also.
I plan to buy the innovative Marine AuqaGadget Protein Skimmer soon but wasnt sure if your supposed to run them during the cycle or let it do its own thing. I got some small particles floating around but its not out of hand.
Day 4
I will do another water test on day 7 to make sure the cycle is going smoothly.. Thank you for looking. All comments and advise welcome. Thanks ahead of time!