[Delphinus]

Dez, did you start your tank from the ground up? I thought the rock and the sand were out of an existing setup. This may mean that the initial spike and cycling may have been greatly reduced since you were leveraging off an existing matured setup. So from your point of view the tank may be no more than 4 months old, but it may really be some measure further along than that (if that makes any sense).

If, however, this is a brand new tank, then it really is more an exceptional case rather than the norm, that there hasn't been any incident of spikes, crashes, or at the very least nuisance algae or cyano blooms.

In most circumstances it really does take up to a year for a tank to "mature." That's not to say you can't put anything in there before one year (only a saint could have that kind of patience), just saying that in many cases there are just a lot of things going on before an equilibrium is acheived and a tank hits its "groove."

You have indeed a very nice setup.

cheers

[ 07 May 2002, 10:02: Message edited by: delphinus ]