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Welcome to my reef blog of my new nano reef 12g 'Scarlet Reef'. Strive to bring nano reef hobbyists great information and resources. Read about all the latest goings on of my saltwater aquarium. Please feel free to add comments and links to your own blogs and reef websites. Started May 2011.

Cycling process

Cycling process

Thursday 23 June 2011

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Day 14 (12/6/2011) Water testing

Water parameter testing result:

PH - 8.2
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrite - 0 ppm
Nitrate - 0 ppm
SG - 1.025

Good result and almost done the cycling process..

Monday 13 June 2011

Day 12 (10/6/2011): Add Live Stock

Adding one more Blue Leg Hermit Crab and Hawaian Feather Duster


Day 11 (9/6/2011): New aquascape

New aquascape design and to be final (adding more 2 kg of live rock)

Day 7 (5/6/2011)

Install ANS cooling 3000 to reduce temp and started to add one blue leg hermit crab

Day 5 (3/6/2011): Aquascaping

Add about 4kg of live rock (already cured at LFS)

Day 3 (1/6/2011) : Cycling Process

Adding dry sand bed (grain size,about 10 kg and 2 inch height) and install lighting ( Aqualily TLD 60 series LED light White + Blue)


"START FOR CYCLING PROCESS"

Mixing Sea Salt (31/5/2011)


I'm using Red Sea Salt (the best ever, easy to dissolve) about 1.5 kg for mixing and wait for one day before adding live rock and sand.

Setup equipment (30/5/2011)

Preparing and set up equipment:

1- 12 g Tank
2- Shanda 2200 Liquid Filter
2- Boyu Protein Skimmer
4- Undergravel Filter


Running equipment and check for leaking..