af330i
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Here is my deal, I have a 150 saltwater fish only tank that after one year I had to take down for about 2 weeks and then restart.
I filled up a 10 gallon tank using a lot of my 1 yr old sand (about 1/4 of the 10 gallon filled with sand), I used existing tank water and put my fish in it with a filter.
I dumped out the rest of the tank water and left my tank sitting with some sand with about 1 inch of water left in it. I took 4 garbage bags and put as much sand as I could in it which then sat for 2 weeks with no filters or anythig else. My bio balls sat and dried up in a bag by itself ...
2 weeks go by and now I put all of the sand back in the tank from the garbage bags, fill up the 150 with fresh water, put in the product needed to kill the chlorine, set up my sump, put a ton of salt in and 6 to 8 hours later after I had everything going well and the salt level alright I put my 5 fish that survived in the big tank along with all of the sand from the 10 gallon tank.
Hoping for a cycle I buy some tough fish like a big cherry grouper, a dog face puffer plus the 5 fish I already had(2 clowns, 1 Wrasse (forgot which one) 1 diamond goby & 1 huma trigger and have been over feeding them for about 1 week. My Ammonia and Nitrite have stayed -0-, my ph is 8.2 and finally today for the first time I decided to test my Nitrate, to my surprise it is 40 which tells me that maybe my tank didn't need to cycle ...
Is this possible or should I hang out to see if I go through a cycle ...
I filled up a 10 gallon tank using a lot of my 1 yr old sand (about 1/4 of the 10 gallon filled with sand), I used existing tank water and put my fish in it with a filter.
I dumped out the rest of the tank water and left my tank sitting with some sand with about 1 inch of water left in it. I took 4 garbage bags and put as much sand as I could in it which then sat for 2 weeks with no filters or anythig else. My bio balls sat and dried up in a bag by itself ...
2 weeks go by and now I put all of the sand back in the tank from the garbage bags, fill up the 150 with fresh water, put in the product needed to kill the chlorine, set up my sump, put a ton of salt in and 6 to 8 hours later after I had everything going well and the salt level alright I put my 5 fish that survived in the big tank along with all of the sand from the 10 gallon tank.
Hoping for a cycle I buy some tough fish like a big cherry grouper, a dog face puffer plus the 5 fish I already had(2 clowns, 1 Wrasse (forgot which one) 1 diamond goby & 1 huma trigger and have been over feeding them for about 1 week. My Ammonia and Nitrite have stayed -0-, my ph is 8.2 and finally today for the first time I decided to test my Nitrate, to my surprise it is 40 which tells me that maybe my tank didn't need to cycle ...
Is this possible or should I hang out to see if I go through a cycle ...
