Hello from CT!

Hey everybody, I have been reading your forum for a few months now. I have a nanocube 12 which has been set up for a year and a half. It has made it through a recent move from NY to CT. I recently started a 40 gallon stretch hexagon tank. I am two weeks into the cycle. I have mostly all base rock in there. I wanted to say Hi and thanks for all the great info so far!

I have 2 green-blue chromis in my nanocube. Im not sure if I am gonna keep the nanocube set up since I live in an apartment and space is tight. I dont have any corals in my nanocube but look forward to trying it out in the new tank.

I am using a shrimp to cycle and I was wondering if it is usually normal to have so much diatom and bubble algae through the cycle when using this way to cycle. I had a little bit of diatom and red slime when i cycled the 12 gallon with the damsels. I am running the lights 8 hours a day.

 

Welcome to 3reef, glad to have you aboard.

 

Welcome to 3reef and kill the lights on the tank. You don't need them at all for the cycle.

 

Thanks. I shut em off. I wasnt really looking to get a bigger tank but the girlfriend found the tank and all the equipment on craigslist and said she wanted to get a bigger tank. It didnt take much begging for me to agree.

 

Welcome to 3Reef and welcome to CT!

 

hello and welcome to 3reef

 

Welcome to 3Reef!

 

hellol. welcome to 3reef (reef reef reef). hhehe. I am from Philippines

 

Welcome to the reef!