Newbie question,
Started a tank about 3 1/2 weeks ago with live sand, but dead rock( left rocks in bucket with freshwater for 1 week, to kill pest), I have yet to see any brown diatom algae boom. I do have macro algae and CUC in the tank already. Attempted to use hermit crabs and Nerite snail to cycle the tank, so far no casualty yet. Testing kit is arriving soon from Amazon, but I'm just wonder is it possible to have a tank cycled with no algae boom?
Tank size: 30 gallon cube
Sump: 20 gallon with refugium
Light: T-5 HO, (switching to Brightlux Chinese LED dimmable soon) in the mail.
CadLight Nano Skimmer
Phosphate Reactor
Wp- 10
Tunze nano ato
Planning on stocking
pair of clowns
red scooter blenny
CUC
Started a tank about 3 1/2 weeks ago with live sand, but dead rock( left rocks in bucket with freshwater for 1 week, to kill pest), I have yet to see any brown diatom algae boom. I do have macro algae and CUC in the tank already. Attempted to use hermit crabs and Nerite snail to cycle the tank, so far no casualty yet. Testing kit is arriving soon from Amazon, but I'm just wonder is it possible to have a tank cycled with no algae boom?
Tank size: 30 gallon cube
Sump: 20 gallon with refugium
Light: T-5 HO, (switching to Brightlux Chinese LED dimmable soon) in the mail.
CadLight Nano Skimmer
Phosphate Reactor
Wp- 10
Tunze nano ato
Planning on stocking
pair of clowns
red scooter blenny
CUC