Cycling

rgfast · 12/16/2009, 01:58 PM

Frist tank cycle use cured or uncured liverock may venders are telling me uncured

frewd · 12/16/2009, 04:09 PM

uncured will make the cycle longer , cured rock will help it quicker,IMO but if your buying the cured rock from a store and there water params at the store are horrible it might not make mutch differance

Big Country_IL · 12/16/2009, 04:50 PM

I used a mix of cured and uncured - my thought on the uncured is that it had enough decomposing junk on it that I didn't need to use a dead cocktail shrimp to cycle. It seemed to take a while to cycle, but it did have a big ammonia peak followed by the nitrite peak.

rgfast · 12/16/2009, 05:56 PM

if i,m not mistakecon thats what we are looking for so we don,t get alot of little cycles an think the tank is ready

12/16/2009, 01:58 PM	#1
rgfast Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Fleming G.A. Posts: 144	Cycling Frist tank cycle use cured or uncured liverock may venders are telling me uncured

12/16/2009, 04:09 PM	#2
frewd Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 57	uncured will make the cycle longer , cured rock will help it quicker,IMO but if your buying the cured rock from a store and there water params at the store are horrible it might not make mutch differance

12/16/2009, 04:50 PM	#3
Big Country_IL Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Rock Island County, Illinois Posts: 54	I used a mix of cured and uncured - my thought on the uncured is that it had enough decomposing junk on it that I didn't need to use a dead cocktail shrimp to cycle. It seemed to take a while to cycle, but it did have a big ammonia peak followed by the nitrite peak.

12/16/2009, 05:56 PM	#4
rgfast Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Fleming G.A. Posts: 144	if i,m not mistakecon thats what we are looking for so we don,t get alot of little cycles an think the tank is ready