How live?and live sand
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How live?and live sand
lets see a tank pic of the setup
very interesting to see how things present if the rock was dry when added, no bacteria and a fish plus daily fish feed.
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…. Well I did have a pair at first and a royal gramma I know I shouldn’t have done that now but at the time I didn’t know but I lost all but one clown and the clown did suffer for a couple days I thought he was gonna die but he pushed through it and is great now (day 11) but I’ve had my anemone for 10 days and to be honest they don’t look good at all they’re small and not as colorful as they should be but I think they’re slowly getting better but I don’t want to get rid of them I’m hoping they make it but yes I do plan to get another clown to pair it but I am gonna wait probably another week or so just Bec I’m nervous and want to make sure my water is all goodOh, you have an anemone in there already? That should really go back to the store- anemones need stable, mature tanks to do well. As a general rule of thumb, you don't want to put one in a tank that's less than a year old. The clownfish will be fine without it.
Cute little guy. Hope he does well. Do you plan to get another and wind up with a pair?
its ok, in fact this is a very very helpful thread in the overall scope of updated cycling science
See how ammonia control was not a factor here, even though common steps we take to ensure it weren't done?
so far, the only tracing for water bacteria I can find is the imagitarium water, that's oceanic water they strain out for large particles (but not bacteria, those are present)
that water acts like cycling bac, not as concentrated, but apparently quite functional.
truly, don't concern over cycling now, don't test for it further, don't buy things/ you are cycled because that tank handles daily feed and because you are past day ten of this combination on a cycling chart. any cycling chart shows ammonia control by day ten, and your pics confirm that. *if you aren't past day ten lol you're about to be/close enough lol
Your thread provides yet more proof that ammonia control fear has no basis in today's cycling, that's the given part/its fish disease we must consider.
that anemone wouldnt be happy if your tank wasn't cycled and if bad ammonia was building up from the fish food and fish waste added, but that's being processed by your surface area and overall water volume + low bioloading. your fish wasn't harmed, or he'd be acting harmed.
I expect the system would not have survived off regular synthetic water/ that ocean water was a lucky variable and known import of bacteria.
Your thread also adds support to the incorrect notion that water doesn't carry cycling bacteria, it sure does and we've proved that in other threads besides this one. Overall this thread contributes incrementally to updated reef tank cycling science.
So I’ve been testing my water and my ammonia doesn’t get down to 0 after 24 hours of feeding but slowly I can see that it is getting lower and lower day after dayI spend all day long ensuring folks who took 99% more steps to protect ammonia than you did that their tanks are not lacking ammonia control. they never believe me lol
the proof is always in the full tank shot. uncycled reefs are dead fish, closed corals, cloudy water, the polar opposite of that above.
the fish and anemone also brought in millions of cells of cycling bac literally stuck to them.
the next time (10 mins from now) we see a post where someone used 2 different types of bottle bac, they're on day 20 claiming no ammonia control, I will think back to this thread and smile as they refuse to believe their tank is controlling ammonia just fine
So I noticed that there’s some shrimp that are not getting eaten and they just sit at the bottom of the tank in the sand is that bad for my tank since they’re not getting eaten? I use mysis shrimp frozen cubes I cut them in half and they mostly get eaten but some don’t so I was just wondering if that was bad that they kind of just sit down therethe fish isn't all that much bioload, the anemone is zero bioload, its the daily fish food that tests the system and also feeds that bacteria you're building up, no reinforcement needed only cruise control lightly fed as is for the next week and you'll be fine. nice atypical cycle, handy to use in future examples of bacteria ability vs inability.