Starting a nano tank

[Mike Stone]

lol


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[Guest]

Enjoyable to see your process here haha. Have you learn about acclimating the fish ?


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[yukok.lim08]

Yeah learned from post and youtube. I have some doubt to:
1. Put the fish bag in aquarium for temperature acclimating.
2. Doing drip acclimation from tank to the fish bag, i notice a lot do this with fish bag outside a pail or storage and not tank. Isnt this defeat the purpose of temperature acclimating?


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[yukok.lim08]

Yeah learned from post and youtube. I have some doubt to:
1. Put the fish bag in aquarium for temperature acclimating.
2. Doing drip acclimation from tank to the fish bag, i notice a lot do this with fish bag outside a pail or storage and not tank. Isnt this defeat the purpose of temperature acclimating?


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[yukok.lim08]

another question: coral dip shall perform on saltwater or RO water? Do it before or after acclimation?


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[Mike Stone]

For coral dip, you can get Coral RX for dipping and follow the instruction. Make sure rinse well before putting back in tank.
Fresh water or RO water dipping need very careful, don't dip in fresh water for more than 30 sec, I did it once with mushroom about 1 min, and almost killed the mushroom .... :-(


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[josephwzr]

Once temperature acclimated, it means that both bag and tank have same temperature of water. So when people do it separately, it is adding water of the same temperature to the bag and maintains that temp.

[yukok.lim08]

Let say shrimp need drip acclimation for 2-3 hours, if we do the drip outside tank. The temp will change as tank always a bit cooler right? Or after drip put into tank for temp acclimation again?


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[Mike Stone]

I will try to drip with bag still in tank and clip it to the wall by cloth pegs.


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[Mike Stone]

That's how I do it, dropping a majestic angel now ! Hehe.



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[Mike Stone]

Beautiful Majestic Angel successfully introduced to my tank stress free, nipping on my life rock now.



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[Darren Sim]

Beautiful Majestic Angel successfully introduced to my tank stress free, nipping on my life rock now.



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Nice piece ! What's the damage?


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[Mike Stone]

4 red and 1 green


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[Darren Sim]

It's nipping your corals now?


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[Soleh Joe]

3 hours ago, Mike Stone said:

Beautiful Majestic Angel successfully introduced to my tank stress free, nipping on my life rock now.



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Nice..

[Mike Stone]

It's nipping your corals now?


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No, I hope not. Need to observe a few days first.
At the moment is nipping the life rock with algae.


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[Mike Stone]

It's nipping your corals now?


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No, I hope not. Need to observe a few days first.
At the moment is nipping the life rock with algae.

[yukok.lim08]

Use another forum member suggestion :
Left hand tank water, right hand ntuc bottle RO water + sea salt . Looks exactly same color and never zero.


Nitrite zero while nitrate is around10-20.

Guess cyling is complete .

Thanks mikestone for lend me his test kit and also some bio media.


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[Mike Stone]

Gratz, put in the new bio media to increase the bacteria buffer, otherwise everytime you add in some thing, may trigger a mini cycle will be nasty.


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[yukok.lim08]

Bio media is in DT now to get bacteria population before i swipe old bio media out next few days. If swap now scare sudden drop bacteria and causing issue lol


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[yukok.lim08]

Added new dead rock inside but unaware got pets thus took all out and dip in fresh water to kill the pets , however this trigger a mini cycling.


No2 is near to zero but not zero yet. Hope bacteria population can catch up very soon to make it always zero.
No3 and Po4 is on high side thus need changing water to keep it low. Mostly i think is over feeding causing this as each family member so excited to feed the fish.

Just got myself refractometer and notice my salinity is 1.032 while hydrometer showing 1.025, the different is so huge? I use RO water on refractometer show zero thus guess is shall be accurate? now need reduce salinity thus changing water serve two purpose now for me


PH also on low side, how shall I raise it?



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[Mike Stone]

Just change water, your tank water volume is small, changing water solve all problems . :-)


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[Mike Stone]

Make sure you use good sea salt too, Red Sea salt is quite good and cheap.


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[Harlequinmania]

Added new dead rock inside but unaware got pets thus took all out and dip in fresh water to kill the pets , however this trigger a mini cycling.


No2 is near to zero but not zero yet. Hope bacteria population can catch up very soon to make it always zero.
No3 and Po4 is on high side thus need changing water to keep it low. Mostly i think is over feeding causing this as each family member so excited to feed the fish.

Just got myself refractometer and notice my salinity is 1.032 while hydrometer showing 1.025, the different is so huge? I use RO water on refractometer show zero thus guess is shall be accurate? now need reduce salinity thus changing water serve two purpose now for me


PH also on low side, how shall I raise it?



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Refactometer is more accurate than using hydrometer, and do remember to calibrate and zero your refactometer with freshwater before using it.

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[yukok.lim08]

If using RO water is showing zero, do i still need to calibrate it?


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