My nano reef

canadianbudz604 · #1 03-05-2012, 04:03 AM

quick question... i have a 10g nano tank and today i got 10lbs of cured live rock and 5g of already cycled water... now the other 5 gallons has been mixing for an hour with a maxi jet 600 and a heater. the salitnity is testing at 1.025 and temp is 76... can i pour the water in my tank now?

canadianbudz604 · #2 03-05-2012, 04:19 AM

anyone?

Money pit · #3 03-05-2012, 04:34 AM

Is this a brand new set up? just rock and water, no live stock yet ? If so yes add the new water.

daniella3d · #4 03-05-2012, 12:52 PM

If you are checking the salinity with an hydrometer, get a good refractometer before you put any livestock in there. Because hydrometer are often way off and you could lose livestock from the wrong salinity.

A good refractometer cost around 25$ brand new on ebay.

canadianbudz604 · #5 03-07-2012, 04:04 AM

well salinity is 1.023, ammonia 0, nitrates 3 so maybe the tank is cycled... gonna test thrpugh the weekend and if all is well might add a cleanup crew

canadianbudz604 · #6 03-07-2012, 04:12 AM

Here is some shots. cloudy pic is from sunday, I used cured live rock and 5g of water from an established tank. Other pics are from today and yesterday, the white hitchhiker is supposedly a bleached strawberry anenome

BMahura · #7 03-07-2012, 04:13 AM

what kind of lights do you have on?

BMahura · #8 03-05-2012, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by canadianbudz604

quick question... i have a 10g nano tank and today i got 10lbs of cured live rock and 5g of already cycled water... now the other 5 gallons has been mixing for an hour with a maxi jet 600 and a heater. the salitnity is testing at 1.025 and temp is 76... can i pour the water in my tank now?

Yes you can pour the water in now. Because you have cycled water you might not get a cycle. Check Ammonia and nitrates for the next couple days and if they are at 0 then you can go from their. If not then wait until they both are at 0 or a very very small amount.

MinPhase · #9 03-07-2012, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daniella3d

If you are checking the salinity with an hydrometer, get a good refractometer before you put any livestock in there. Because hydrometer are often way off and you could lose livestock from the wrong salinity.

A good refractometer cost around 25$ brand new on ebay.

I agree that swing needle hydrometers are useless but I think you could get by with a floating hydrometer.

Skimmerking · #10 03-07-2012, 04:14 PM

that is a nice looking 10 gal with the rock. love the aqua scape. As long as you have cycled rock and you dont get the die off you can replace all the water. I have done this and SO has Doug who is a Moderator on here. along the levels are all normal and nothing is out to lunch.