Hello again and thanks for the messages of support.
Since my last post nothing too much has changed my tank is still cycling (even though I think it would just love to speed things up)
I have my tank up and running since January and my
live rock has been in the tank for over 5 weeks now with no great changes.
There is a lot of hair algae starting to grown in the tank and I have been taking my toothbrush to it with no great effect. I need a firmer brush I think.
I know it’s not a great photo but here is a picture of a green spore that suddenly appeared over night. I thought this was brilliant but I had to brush it off.
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Reefbaby thanks a million for the advise (all comments are very welcome)
I am going to have a deep sand bed in my tank but the book I am reading has advised that the sand should be placed in the tank after the tank it has cycled.
I have place the rock away from the glass with enough space for my magnet cleaner to push through but I haven’t left enough space between the wall and one side of the glass which will make it a little difficult to clean the inside of the glass but I will get over it by getting a algae scraper.
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I have added an additional maxijet Powerhead to the tank. This is to improve the circulation as it is bow shaped the water was not being pushed through the rocks. So now I have a 1200l/h and a 900l/h maxijet powerheads and along with this there is a 600l/h pump on the flow side of the filter. This gives me 14 water circulations/movements (?) an hour, which is above the recommended 5 to 10, but I don’t want to be reliant on the 600l/h Powerhead as when the filter gets clogged the flow will be reduced (as advised in one of the podcasts)
So tonight I am going to do another water test and hopefully there will be some change in the
ammonia levels. It has been 5 weeks since I have put the
live rock in. there has been an increase in hair algae so hopefully that Is a sign that things are beginning to speed up.
My
LFS has told me that I can put in a peppermint shrimp and a couple of snails as the
ammonia levels are quite low but I am gonna stick to my guns and wait for the tank to cycle.
Thanks again for all your posts of encouragement.
Paul
