Articles tagged: cycling
- Practice
Starting a reef tank step by step
A practical guide to assembling a new reef tank in order: placement and load-bearing, dry assembly and leak test of the equipment, substrate and rockwork, mixing and filling with saltwater, starting and tuning the equipment, and beginning the cycle — with exact figures, tolerances and troubleshooting.
- Basics
The cycling process — what happens before adding any animals
The basics of the nitrogen cycle, nitrification microbes and what actually happens biologically during the cycling phase.
- Practice
The cycling process in practice — protocol, equipment and when the tank is ready
Step-by-step cycling protocol: filling, seeding, monitoring, ICP test and equipment startup.