Dry rock cycle

lpsreefer · #1 11-29-2013, 08:15 AM

I did mine a little differently.
For my rock I had roughly 150 pounds of live rock in my system, then I added 204 pounds of dry rock.
I had roughly 2-3 days of higher ammonia. it went away and I had no algae issues.
My fish and corals did Great.

In about 2 weeks I'm adding another 400+ pounds right into the display.
As I have been doing tests with the rock. I'm am very impressed on how little it takes to cycle.
With live rock and/or water from your display.

If your starting 100% fresh.
It takes about 3-5 days for the ammonia to really kick in then 9-11 days for the bacteria to kick in and then eat up all the ammonia.
Once the ammonia level hits 0.
Your good to go put it in your display in my opinion.
I'll try to get some pics of mine up this weekend.

SmallFry · #2 12-31-2013, 01:32 AM

Thanks for the advice on curing the rock, cured faster than expected, got it in the tank on Boxing Day, looks great. Now all i need is more coral...

eli@fijireefrock.com · #3 12-31-2013, 02:58 AM

Glad to hear your licking the rock and the cycle recipe

now lets get on the pictures

SmallFry · #4 12-31-2013, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by eli@fijireefrock.com

Glad to hear your licking the rock and the cycle recipe

now lets get on the pictures

Ok, I'm not the most imaginative when it comes to aquascaping, but here it is..
No kidding that there are lots of hiding places for fish, you'd never know there are actually seven of them in there!

eli@fijireefrock.com · #5 12-31-2013, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by SmallFry

Ok, I'm not the most imaginative when it comes to aquascaping, but here it is..
No kidding that there are lots of hiding places for fish, you'd never know there are actually seven of them in there!

Try standing some of these rocks and tune down the lighting as its best to get it ramped up slowly

SmallFry · #6 01-01-2014, 01:09 AM

I have a reduced lighting sketch for the Arduino coded up already, a pain in the ass to get it on there because I don't have an RTC yet so I'm having to send it a time from the command prompt on the iMac, then somehow keep it alive with a 9v battery until I can get it plugged into power down in the basement..