HOW TO: Cycle A Pico Reef Tank
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- In Today's video, We are going to be taking a look at how to cycle a Pico Reef tank. Cycling an aquarium can be easy but just how easy? The Pico Reef Tank Build is coming along but Cycling is an incredibly important part of setting up a pico reef tank. If you're new to my channel make sure you subscribe for more reef tank videos.
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Mad Hatter's Reef what light did you use on the pico reef tank
@@enzobruschini565 it was already attached to the lid wen he bort it
Man I love this pico series!
Thanks ReefBoy!
Never thaught I would see that in 24 hrs. Inspiring. Great jib
Thanks man!
If you added live or pre-conditioned coral based rock to that jar, it was already cycling the moment and before you put sterile water in. And given the small volume, I would think it would start cycling fairly quickly UNLESS there’s a subsequent die off in the mean time of whatever was riding along with that rock. As for the ammonia test, you could have added a drop of your ammonia chloride to a known quantity of water and then tested that first to see if the test kit would give an ammonia reading.... there is some benefit to adding some sort of nutrient to the tank to aid the cycle as that represents the additional bio load you are about to add with livestock.
P.S. Great video, and great series... I’m just going to get back into the hobby with a pico after being out of the reef hobby for at least 20 years now... being one who originally learned a lot from Julian Sprung and built EVERYTHING from scratch including a huge sump and massive protein skimmer on a 15 gallon tall reef tank lit by fluorescents and actinic. Unfortunately a move (and an epic battle with both a fireworm and a thumb splitter) made it impractical to continue - but I’ve always wanted to get my hands salty again.
Greetings from Germany.I often used off testkits from salifert. In comparism to new Ones there where no Big differences. Love your vids,thanks for your effort to share your expirience.
Thanks for sharing!
i have tried bottled bacteria before and added fish roughly 7 days later. I don't recall the brand I used though. I don't have any complaints from this method. Looking forward to seeing the full outcome!
Dr Tim's One and Only, with Ammonium Chloride, definitely works to cycle your tank quickly and safely!
Clean setup. Can’t wait to see how this light performs. 🤙
Thanks for watching!
Short cycles do exist personally I believe a tank will recycle periodically early on if you add a large fish or many fish. The best thing to do post cycle is if you are skilled at catching them is a bunch of damsels for the 2nd cycle then pull them and you can add multiple nice fish right away. The other good option which I should have done but failed to do is add corals (LPS and softies) early on to beat out algae early and target feed them.
If your ammonia test kit expired you cant tell if the cycle has even started buddy... i would put more ammonia daily and test the water in 5-7 days time
Using a good piece of live rock is about the same as transferring over a used filter, it should have enough bacteria in it to be cycled just by using the rock.
For sure... Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for doing this little series on Picos, I am planning on turning a rimless 5g into a reef tank. I will be running an aquaclear 70. That should be plenty of filtration and water movement to where I wouldn't need a wave maker I think. Or should I omit the aquaclear and go filterless like you have? This is my first venture into saltwater so I would appreciate your feed back. Thank you so much!
I think a 70 aquaclear would be enough flow for a 5g. IR had a 10g with a 70 and that was it. Should work fine.
One day cycle. Awesome
I was pretty surprised myself! Thanks for watching
Nice vid can’t wait to see wat your gonna add in bro
Something salty
Love the video, quick question if I add water from an existing tank do you still need to cycle the tank.
Just water = yes
water and rock = not necessarily but recommended
Water, rock and sand = no need
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Hey Mad Hatter! - Thanks for the informative videos! - I wanted to ask, I have the 13.5 fluval and am going to use Dr. Tims... I haven't put my biological media and chemipure blue in yet... should I put the one and only in and the ammonium chloride in, let it go for 24 hours then put my media in and turn back on the pump? or just put all my media in at the same time I use the dr tims? with the filter going? First time using the product. Thanks for any guidance!
I want one of those tanks as a pod farm for my main tank.
Thats a good idea for sure.
Cool tank
Thanks Rusty!
Would it be the same process with a non life rock?
I’m new to this, do we have to do this every time we change the water ?
Another way is to use live rock from another tank. Or using water from a coral tank. And it kinda gets things going faster
There’s risk though
Do you know of any good website in the US that sell these tiny pico tanks with filtration overflows ?
Is it the nitrifying bacteria masking the ammonia and nitrite maybe?? i know the bottle says use to lower levels of ammonia and nitrite so could just not be getting a reading from that. Hopefully its cycled thought thanks for the videos and info.
It doesn't mask, it converts... I'm sure the rock from the waterbox helped out a lot.
@@MadHattersReef even better, thanks for your insight in all this this is all very helpful. If your replying i have a question. I have one piece live rock left in a quarantine tank im too scared to introduce its beautiful and coraline all over the one side but the back side and bottom are covered in the multiple hundreds of spirorbid worms im not over exaggerating either. Im not sure if this will be kinda stupid to introduce into my tank im worried my whole tank will look like the rock.
Im using Stability it says 5ml per 10 gallon. I put approx 1.666666 of the bacteria in my bacteria should i have used more?
Quick ? I'm getting ready ready to make the switch from freshwater to my first reef tank. It's a 60 gallon cube and I'm going to use half live rock half dry. Do I still need to use the additives. I'm use to always having media in one of my sumps ready to go. Will the live rock perform the same way. Thanks
The live rock will help but I would still use the process I did here to make sure that the cycle happens. I like the fact you are using live rock with the dry, if will definitely help.
Fish added with Bio-Spira in first day of 5.5 Pico tank.
BIO-Spira actually contains two types of bacteria. One type breaks down ammonia, which is the very toxic part of fish waste, into nitrites. Another type of bacteria breaks the nitrites down into nitrates which are still toxic but not as much as nitrites or ammonia. In a new tank, ammonia can reach a dangerous level within days after introducing the fish. This is why, before BIO-Spira, only a small amount of fish could be added at first, and then no more fish could be added for three to four weeks. Aquarium owners had to be patient people! But with BIO-Spira, time is not a problem as this product’s bacteria will break down ammonia (and the nitrites produced from this) within twenty four hours. No more waiting!
Hey I am just wondering I have a 40 oz micro pinco tank from pnw customs, and it has a slump filtration system will that effect how I cycle the tank at all?
I imagine no fish are involved so you probably don’t need to cycle it/
So do you wait to do a water change until tank is done cycling on a pico?
Wait until any tank is done. Size doesn’t matter for that one.
Hold on do you live in Maine?! If so I do too
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If you add a fish along with the bottle of nitrifying bacteria, how is it cruel to the fish if the bacteria immediately starts consuming the ammonia the fish produces? Wouldn't that be enough to keep the ammonia in the tank at safe levels for a fish when cycling?
If this tonga branch live rock was taken out of mature tank you have instant cycle in pico without a doubt
Yeah and I would think since it's used to the mature tank there would even be significant bb die off since the bio load shrunk ! Then again so did the water volume 🤔
Dude, they stopped making those lights to fit the top of the jars. Wtf.
I think so too.
adding live rock at the same time with bacteria, not very replicable with other new comers of the hobby, particularly with no testing on ammonia. I highly doubt any other people do exactly the same process with dry rock will have the same success. overall, not the best guide nor scientific process educated for new hobbiests