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Hi guys,im new in marine and just start to cycle my tank 2 days ago.Ive dose 1x vial of bio digest and 1x Bioptim.ive put in a piece of market prawn too.My question is when can i remove the prawn for my tank?

Hei Bro,

What I did is just leave the market prawn inside the tank until it's decompose by itself :)

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Good read and advice. Many of us usually get too anxious setting up a new tank especially newbie hence tends to skip hell lots of step. Its better to be patient than doing it all over again when your tank crash after a long wait. 

 

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Or if you find the prawn gross, just use a few pellets to do the cycle. I used only 3 small sinking food pellets for my cycle, just let them dissolve and forget about it

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Any one can advise me if i can add rowaphos and ceramic ring in sump during cycling? Thanks

hi bro, yes u can definitely add rowaphos and ceramic rings in sump during Cycling, ceramic rings to house your beneficial bacteria and rowaphos to absorb silicate and po4, both helps to improve your water quality and prepare your water for livestock additions

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hi bro, yes u can definitely add rowaphos and ceramic rings in sump during Cycling, ceramic rings to house your beneficial bacteria and rowaphos to absorb silicate and po4, both helps to improve your water quality and prepare your water for livestock additions

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Bacteria can be purchased - many brands out there. Continum Microbacter 7, Aquaforest ProbioS, prodibio just to name a few. These will help seed the bacteria population.

The market prawn is to create organic waste & provide ammonia to feed the bacteria so that its population increase.


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Primary purpose of the lights is to provide energy for the corals to photosynthesize.

During cycling, its absolutely not necessary to switch on the lights. 

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