Fish123Fish's Juwel Rio 125 Marine Reef

[seffieuk]

STOP

Dont do anything, put your hands in your pockets and wait

I think you have had a very small mini cycle and probably will not have to do a water change at all the only reason we change the water is if the water stats tell us we need to or it is part of our weekly routine At the moment your stats are telling me and you to wait...........

I expect your results to look something like this tomorrow:

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10 ish

lets see what happens, ok?

Seffie x

 

[FiSh123FiSh]

Haha I think I'll need tying up to something to stop me...

Okay Seffie, lets see if your right! I'll do a test now

 

[FiSh123FiSh]

Okay today:

Ammonia - 0
Nitirte - 0
Nitrate - <5

What does all this mean?

 

[Harry1996]

your fine for some cuc
but wait a bit. just in case. if its the same for a few days then you can get your cuc.

 

[seffieuk]

What does all this mean?

Ok, what these stats tell me:

Ammonia has been turned into and used up by the nitrites and the nitrites have been used by the Nitrate.

Actions:

• Do your 'first' weekly water change, you do not need to do a large water change as you have only had a mini cycle
• Buy a phosphate kit and start to test
• After 24 hours of your 'first' water change post the stats - if they are <10 go and buy the first part of your

cuc

 

[FiSh123FiSh]

AWESOME!!!

Will do my water change tonight as I'am not at home right now! Should I just do a 20% change?

And test on thursday

My CUC:

1 Conch
5 Cerith snails
5 Nassarius snails
4 Turbo snails
5 Hermit crabs

I also have a lot of hair algae comming on the tops of myu rocks. What would be good for getting rid of it as I have heard its pain to get rid of when its established.

 

[seffieuk]

Yes do a 20% water change, if it were me I would take the rock with the hair algae out, whilst I could and pull off the hair algae and give the area a little scrub (dont scrub all the rock)

Seffie x

ps

five hermits are too many, just get a couple to start with and leave the conch to later

 

[Harry1996]

i started with four small hermits i think it would of been better to get 3

 

[FiSh123FiSh]

Ok, just done the rock. It looks a bit better but I can see little bits that I missed. so will have to wait a bit for when it gets visable out of water.

5 Cerith snails
5 Nassarius snails
4 Turbo snails
3 Hermit crabs

Is this a bit better? ^

 

[ben1987]

wait til your ammonia is zero before doing anything. dont even really need to test others til thats zero

 

[FiSh123FiSh]

wait til your ammonia is zero before doing anything. dont even really need to test others til thats zero

The last test I did it was zero

 

[seffieuk]

Is this a bit better? ^

Yes, that is better

Seffie x

 

[ben1987]

wait til your ammonia is zero before doing anything. dont even really need to test others til thats zero

The last test I did it was zero

woops my bad. WC then CUC then, starts getting good from now

 

[FiSh123FiSh]

Yay!

I shall do my WC as soon as I have written this.

Are there any 'different' possibilities for CUC options? I am a massive fan of crabs. But I have to wait a bit longer don't I?


Any thoughts about that snail?

Nat Tarbox - Copyright.

It does look similar to this ^

 

[seffieuk]

Spend the time researching crabs, there are a lot of cool ones out there

And dont forget the humble tuxedo urchin, lovely creatures

Seffie x