How soon is too soon for a water change?

Next comes the dreaded wet hand syndrome.

When you can not keep you hands out of the tank. It happens to the best and there is no known cure, it just has to run it's course.

We all stress over our tanks and then sometime day you realize interventions that seem like a perfectly good and sensible action many times cause more stress to your tank than good.

It's still a beautiful tank even if it's just cycling. So much potential.

 

Thanks. I'm trying not to tweak it too much right now.

I've started noticing a reduction in the diatoms, even though I've added some additional items for my CUC and a pod pack from Reefs2Go and a new Chaeto ball.

I'll also add that the chaeto ball from Reefs2Go was significantly larger, thicker strands, more 'waded' and tighter vs the one from ReefCleaners.org. Also with some stuff from the reefcleaners.org: all my hermit crabs were dead on arrival. They were sent USPS, not FedEx so not guaranteed, but they arrived in less than 16 hours from ship date. Half of my nerite shipment were dead on arrival. There was a definitive different smell from the shipment from reefs2go vs reefcleaners.org. Packaging for reefs2go was better, communication was better, felt more polished. They've got my business going forward even for stuff as small as CUC.

I ordered a second reactor for carbon tonight so I'll be putting that on tomorrow, but not touching water, other than adding plain RO/DI for top off stuff. Haven't even tested even though I've been tempted.