Can I keep a marine tank in my room?

[clownman]

Have you cycled your tank?

[yuji]

i never bother to cycle my tank before, and the indicator never seem to show a spike in ammonia, but today there was a spike. dunno why, but over the weekend, i understand that power supply was cut and hence my pump was not working till this morning.

[clownman]

How long have you had this tank?

[yuji]

quite a few months already, but i just did a complete water change 2 weeks ago.

[clownman]

Think not a good idea to do a complete water change.

May stress your LS too much.

And you may not have cultivated sufficient bacteria colony to take care your of LS's waste since you did not go through the proper process of cycling your tank.

Anyway, see if anything died in there.

I once had a star polyp - looks to be alright, still opening.

But for a couple of days, I had two small flies flying around my cubicle.

And water getting a bit stinky.

Mushrooms closed tight-tight for the first time.

Buttons half open.

Decided to take out my corals and have a look.

Man ... when I took out the star polyp, it STINKS LIKE HE**!!!

Some part of the rock its resting on had turned soft and soggy.

Threw it away and did a complete water change.

Then everything back to normal again.

Think you may need to take a sniff on your LRs and corals also.

Haha...

Well, let your tank run for another week and then do another test.

And maybe you can start another thread, think this is getting a bit

[lastmanstanding]

Another question.... Do i need to wash my new substrate before putting it into the tank?

Thanks alot:)

[terryansimon]

yes. you need to. or you can be lazy like me and just dump it in and hope for the best.

but for a small tank, don't be lazy. (=