- Location
- Mamaroneck, NY
Hi all, I got a 6 gallon jbj off a fellow member last week and decided to start a thread so here it is.
Got the tank on 5/15 complete with rock and sand. The tank was covered in a decent amount of hair alage and I did my best to scrape off what I could from the glass and the rocks before setting it up.
I swapped out the stock pump for a minijet 606 and added a hydor flow deflector. No other mods as.of yet.
Im running filter floss in chamber 1, in chamber 2 I have chemipure elite on the bottom followed by another layer of floss and ontop of that some phosban, in chamber 3 I have the pump and a 25 watt heater.
I decided to use catalina sea water instead of mixing my own because its just easier for me.
Tank has been up and running for 7 days and the curent parameters are
Amonia .25 ppm
Nitrate 40 ppm
Ph 8.2
Temp 79
Not gonna bother with any other tests until the tank is done with its cycle.
Curent live stock
3 nerite snails
3 nassarius snails
1 mexican turbo ( to be removed before after cycle and all alage gone )
Any tips, comments, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Got the tank on 5/15 complete with rock and sand. The tank was covered in a decent amount of hair alage and I did my best to scrape off what I could from the glass and the rocks before setting it up.
I swapped out the stock pump for a minijet 606 and added a hydor flow deflector. No other mods as.of yet.
Im running filter floss in chamber 1, in chamber 2 I have chemipure elite on the bottom followed by another layer of floss and ontop of that some phosban, in chamber 3 I have the pump and a 25 watt heater.
I decided to use catalina sea water instead of mixing my own because its just easier for me.
Tank has been up and running for 7 days and the curent parameters are
Amonia .25 ppm
Nitrate 40 ppm
Ph 8.2
Temp 79
Not gonna bother with any other tests until the tank is done with its cycle.
Curent live stock
3 nerite snails
3 nassarius snails
1 mexican turbo ( to be removed before after cycle and all alage gone )
Any tips, comments, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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