How to determine that a marine aquarium is "mature"?

Anne

Question for sailors: how to determine when the sea is ready for the introduction of hydrobionts? Nano reef 30 liters, standard equipment, flow pump, live rocks (about 4 kg). 1.025 Ca-400 Kh-10 pH-8.2 No3, No2, Po4---0, drop tests. The aquarium is 8 days old, and nitrites and nitrates disappeared two days ago (there were no phosphates). During this time, there has been one water change of 2 liters, everything seems stable. The creatures in the live rocks have become active and are moving around. How to determine that?

Stephen

Substitutions are not made during the ripening period. Now the count starts from zero.

Joe

Well, more like this: the salinity increased to 1.026 (I measure it with an aquarium refractometer) for no apparent reason, evaporation is ruled out, I had to drain about a liter instead of using an auto top-off (can't pour above the level) and replaced it with distilled water. I brought it down to 1.025. It seems like a water change; the parameters were normal even before the change...

Melinda2740

Nitrites are gone - it's ready. Release the livestock.

Todd

I will probably spend another week with my father-in-law, quickly somehow, even though the live rocks are good, there was no water from the existing aquarium.

Reginald5073

What is the "maturation" of an aquarium? It is essentially the stabilization of the nitrogen cycle. For this, at least a source of nitrogen is needed. In your case, it was live rock. If the live rock is of good quality, there will be minimal nitrogen compounds, and maturation will be quick. A gradual load (and gradual "maturation") can be provided either by a smooth stocking process or by artificially introducing sources of nitrogen - a piece of dead fish, shrimp, or, excuse me, half a cup of urine.

Ashley5975

No-no-no! I looked at your volume! Not half a glass - 20-30 ml of urine!

Jeanne

Why? I'm not making the Black Sea! The method is wonderful, but there are too many people around, and I'm shy. I'm afraid they'll take it as a role model, and I wouldn't want to overdo it.

James5032

a new trend in marine aquaristics - urinomotherapy!!!!:-) Our wives will definitely kick us out of the house....

Ryan1989

Oleg Vladimirovich, you have already set it up (your sea), with live rocks and concrete, so why not let it mature? Release the little creatures, we're waiting for photos!

Sarah7284

I'm shy to ask where you saw this? Please demonstrate it. If everything survives, I'll buy you a bottle of Hennessy..... P.S. I can't even imagine how you can change 100% in a 200-liter aquarium???? And why? ))))

Samuel6138

By the way, if anyone is interested, the next day after adding water to my aquarium, diatoms started to appear... (in a mild form - as a light, loose coating on the stones and sand) That is, the "cycling" process did not stop and did not start over... I think the catalyst was the increase in the length of the daylight. Although their appearance was a bit unexpected - the source of silicates is still a question for me (I suspect the worn-out reverse osmosis membrane and the temporary absence of ion exchange resin, but I can't confirm my guess - I don't have a TDS meter or a silicate test).

Jessica

Without the resin, it's bad; order a cartridge from Airife right away, especially since the worn membranes and 60 ppm indicate that it's already very bad.

Helen

Who told you that? I personally had one. And I also had an aquarium without sand or gravel. Most commercial aquariums are made that way. So there's nothing new here.

Steven7574

Then we will talk, but for now, let's not give anyone such advice. And the author of the topic should definitely not touch the aquarium for a month. Time needs to pass, and everything will settle down.

Stephen

Thank you for thinking of me as well. There are new tenants in the aquarium now; once they settle in, I'll post a photo.

Jennifer5784

which ones exactly? I didn't advise pouring anything in there! Neither dead shrimp nor any "accelerators." I gave an example (everyone took something different from it), and at my own risk, I poured a third of fresh water into MY JAR, which was started at the same time and on the same stones, as a demonstration experiment. Everyone says "it's not allowed" - so let's see if the maturation process will restart, if its duration will increase, or if there will be "flashes." I am in no way encouraging anyone to do the same, nor do I advise anything like that. I act based on personal considerations and share my observations.

Rachel9060

Despite the apparent substitution, maturation is in full swing.

Elijah7048

Yesterday, quite by chance, as part of an experiment, a Neocaridina shrimp ended up in a mini sea. And today it is alive and well, nibbling on the lower organisms as if nothing happened. But where is the osmotic shock? (It immediately started behaving as if it had lived here for a hundred years.) Did it remember how its ancestors lived in the sea? After a day of being there, everything is normal! Will it not grow as large as a molly in the sea?

Melissa3200

Oleg Vladimirovich, you have a lot of material for experiments. I'll let you in on a secret: there are also black swordtails living in seawater, but they don't stay long for feeding. I'm placing an order on iRife, the shipment will be sent tomorrow. If you haven't bought everything, feel free to join.

Rita

That's it - I jinxed the shrimp. I scared it with the tweezers and it got tangled in the pump's flow, Glory to AquaEL! Now no one will ever know...

Jacob4800

I demand a repeat of the experiment!! )) (such a food base is wasted Nerite snails still feel quite good in seawater - they can be adapted and used as available algae eaters.

Kimberly4253

Yeah, my trocus works like a bulldozer, clearly from a hungry place, the clearings behind it are almost scary.. in just two days, it cleaned 2 out of 3 stones from "beets" - the stones look brand new! If there were such a freshwater beast, I wouldn't trade it for any treats!!!

Jason

Off-topic You still don't have a hedgehog! It seems to be "shaving" the top layer of stone)) It even leaves a white trail in Carolina...