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01/23/2020, 11:57 PM | #26 |
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Once you add fish start the skimmer cause you will start adding food and have fish waste so its needed.
I just do not want to be misunderstood here, I am not advocating for no skimmer. Skimmer is important, turning it off very early in the cycle will help accelerate the first phase of the cycle that's all. Once you add fish and nutrients you should run skimmer if skimmer is what are tou planning for mechanical filtration.. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk |
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No. I have not run lights. Was told it would promote algae growth.
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01/24/2020, 05:34 AM | #29 |
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The bacteria are photosensitive particularly to UV/blue light while in the water column for the first few days. They do not need light..
Its actually recommended to NOT run lights for at least the first few days of the cycling process.. After that you can turn them on and that typically gets the "ugly stages" (diatoms/algae/cyano usually in that order) started and potentially over faster.
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Adding fish won't help. The issue is the lack of nitrite-processing bacteria. They will show up given some time, but a few water changes might help speed the process. I agree that running the lights might help a bit, too, by promoting photosynthesis. The photosynthesis will help consume the nitrite.
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If there is no fish, not source of amino or carbon..how do we expect bacteria to thrive and build up? What would it feed on? Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk |
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But i wonder in the case of the op, is it still recomended to keep lights off for weeks? I think not.. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk Last edited by ohashimz; 01/24/2020 at 10:45 PM. |
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So maybe run a mini cycle of lights?? I did notice my nitrites went down a tad today. I do have about 20ppm nitrate.
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It can help to add clean ammonia to a fishless tank in order to keep the ammonia up to keep the process going & growing. This adds no nutrients but keeps the ammonia /nitrites cycle going & more of that particular bacteria growing. I did this on a large arch rock i wanted cycled completely before introducing it in my DT so i wouldn't get the uglys phase it took 3 weeks then i kept adding ammonia daily until the bacteria would completely consume it in a 24 hr. period, which was another week then all i had at days end was nitrates. Nice part was no odors at all going this rout & testing showed all clear to go. So this is also an option you can use to finish the cycling with no fish involved & still keep a bioload going, i also sprinkled just a wee tad of fish flakes at the end just to makes sure it could handle ammonia & food and all tested ok just nitrates. In all it took 4 weeks. I used a heater & 1 powerhead.
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