New 10 gallon

ichiriki

ichiriki

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Hey guys, well I'm the one with that 7 gallon, i posted that LR=Quartz thread...So anyways, i know that a 7 gallon tank to a 10 gallon isn't a BIG upgrade but it was just to hard to place that huge rock i got in that hexagonal 7...So I now have a 10....I am still trying to figure out, what a "nano" is??? Maybe i should post this in the nano forum, but I just need to know if the setup of the rocks have to be in a certain way?
The other thing is,
I transfered the water from the 7g into the 10g (then added maybe 3g's of newly made salt water..) Then live fine aragonite...Does it need to cycle again? Since I believe my 7g cycled already??
P.S. I can take some pictures of the tank if you would like to see the rock set-up and tank...Just ask....
Thanks,
Jared
 
shep

shep

Member
OK to startoff nano-reef is mini reef tank. As in micro mili nano. Aside from that It's not alot of work if done properly. I had 10 gallon Nano that ran great for 2-3 years. Wife wanted the dresser space for stupid stuff so it went to the 125. To be honest it's much easier to do a 55 than a nano until you get the hang of it. Once you get a nano running it's nice dresser toy or coffee table thing. It does take massive research and time to get it right though. I had ten gallon nano with 3.5 inch live sand bas and 15 lbs of rock with homeade skimmer and whiper 2 filter. Ended up with the baby PC lamps to grow it. Cost me more than the 55 to get it right but was worth it in the long run...
 
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sinner's girl

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test your water. it may go through a cycle.
are you using the same filter, sand, and lr? as long as the fliter sand and lr stayed wait you may be ok.
"live fine aragonite" is this from the 7gl or is it new?
Test water though. often when moving or upgrading tanks they will go through a mini cycle.
the setup of your lr does not matter as far as if it is defined as a nano or not.
 
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daniel411

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I've always been under the belief that even pre-packaged live sand still needs time to cycle, just a SIGNIFICANTLY shorter time span.
I just went from a 90 gallon to a 37 gallon, moving the live rock and picking up about a hundred pounds of pre-packaged live sand and fine aragonite. I had to transfer a few gobies into the tank immediately, and did about two water changes over the next week.. everything went well.
 
brooklyn johnny

brooklyn johnny

Active Member
Ichiriki congrats on the upgrade!:D I too have a 10 gallon nano and you'll see there are many possibilities. Check out my thread in the nano forum detailing my tank... listed as the kitchen nano.
As stated earlier a nano is simply a small reef tank, usually considered less than 30 gallons, with the cap sometimes being put at 20 gallons. There is no rule really... as compared to the ocean we all really have nanoreefs.
A "cycle" is simply the period of time in which beneficial bacterias are adjusting and growing according to the bioload placed on it. Ammonia and nitrites are always present in our systems, but in a healthy cycled reef tank they never build to the point of detection on our tests. Anytime this is disturbed, there will be an adjustment period afterwards, as in switching tanks as you've done. The question is whether you'll be able to notice it. You may or may not. In live sand there are different populations and types of bacteria throughout different parts of the sandbed. Simply taking this and dumping it into a new tank does not mean there are no adjustments to be made, but as Daniel mentioned it's significantly shorter. The efficiency in reducing wastes continues to rise long after the "cycle" is complete, as lots of microbial life are essentially competing for those nutrients. That's the long answer... :D
With that said let's see those pics!!!
 
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