Articles tagged: tank startup
- Practice
Cleanup crew — the right animals, the right time
Selecting, sizing and timing the cleanup crew: snails, hermit crabs, urchins and sea stars in the reef aquarium.
- 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.