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09-30-2008, 06:25 AM
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give it a realy good cycle you will be very glad down the road i set up a 10 gallon nano let it cycle for 2 months its on month 4. this tank is bare bone to no mechanical filter or skimmer and its running better then my90 gallon with all the bells and whistles. i truly apreciate a good cycle now
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09-30-2008, 04:43 PM
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I'm not planning on adding any part of a cleanup crew for at least two weeks yet, regardless of my parameters. I'm just a little wary about the potential of *not* seeing an ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate spike that would let me know about the cycling in general. As I mentioned, I wasn't able to pick up a test kit for almost five whole days of running my aquarium so seeing safe levels of ammonium and nitrite set me on edge - which is why I updated with the question.
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10-02-2008, 01:55 AM
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Its an AQ30 running without any filter media. I've modified it to be able to hold some Chaeto and some rock rubble that I'm going to get on my next trip to the LFS. I picked it up primarily so that I could add another direction of flow to the tank (as well as the added chaeto filtration).
As for lighting I've pieced together a 55W PC (50/50) light for the time being. I think that should be enough given the depth of my tank for the basic corals I'm planning to get (softies and leathers).
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10-05-2008, 05:00 AM
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Update!
I turned the light on at 9am before work yesterday and came home to find that in nine hours I had a healthy collection of brown algae (diatoms, I assume) on some of my sand and creeping up the walls of my aquarium. I'm still testing 0 for ammonia, 0 for nitrites, and 0 for nitrates. Looks like it's cycling!! 
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