Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm
So the new tank was set up with NSW, Live Sand, maybe 5kg of live rock (very fresh, no die off) and the rest of the rock 'Real Reef Rock' (inert)
coming up to week 3 now and no ammonia at all, I did the same tactic as before and stocked instantly to test if I would have any die off (Hydra-Pure & all that ) - I stocked with yellow staghorn damsels and blue/green chromies - 10 of each. at day 3 and 4 of the set up, no deaths after a week so I put in a long nose hawkfish, still nothing, all systems stable and perfect.
My thinking is, if i used live sand and technically living water I wouldn't get an ammonia spike and true cycle would I? there would be enough bacteria + the hydra to keep the system perfectly stable, hence why no fish losses.
Is that possible? does it even work like that? should I still expect a cycle?
coming up to week 3 now and no ammonia at all, I did the same tactic as before and stocked instantly to test if I would have any die off (Hydra-Pure & all that ) - I stocked with yellow staghorn damsels and blue/green chromies - 10 of each. at day 3 and 4 of the set up, no deaths after a week so I put in a long nose hawkfish, still nothing, all systems stable and perfect.
My thinking is, if i used live sand and technically living water I wouldn't get an ammonia spike and true cycle would I? there would be enough bacteria + the hydra to keep the system perfectly stable, hence why no fish losses.
Is that possible? does it even work like that? should I still expect a cycle?
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