I am setting up a second tank which is a 30 gallon. I don't have my rock for it yet. If I rinse my sand and put it in the tank and fill the tank with water will it start cycling with just the sand in there? And when I add the rock it will go through another cycle? I have the sand sitting here for a couple weeks and am getting tired of looking at it in the bags and a bare tank.
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Northstar24
The Tang Herder
It may start cycling - but adding live rock afterwards may cause a second cycle
The other reason you would not want to do this is that if the sand is added before the rocks, you increase your chances of a rock slide with burrowing critters, or as the aragonite sand slowly breaks down as it acts as a ph buffer. Rock first, then sand
The other reason you would not want to do this is that if the sand is added before the rocks, you increase your chances of a rock slide with burrowing critters, or as the aragonite sand slowly breaks down as it acts as a ph buffer. Rock first, then sand
ZyberGoby
Because I'm clever
did you get live sand?
are you using dry rock if it is live sand?
if your going to add live rock to it while cycling I don't see any problem with it i did that. to an extent. I had done a dry rock rubble base for where I would be placing the larger Live Rock. But around the base stations I filled the tank with sand just enough for the tops of that rubble to show. witch was about 2in. in a 28g bowfround. I did this to help prevent rock slides from flow and my critters digging at the base points.
Sorry I went off track there....
But yeah when I did this I had no issue with a recycle at any point by adding rock to a new tank or adding more rock to the tank. But every body's tanks act different to every kind of change.
are you using dry rock if it is live sand?
if your going to add live rock to it while cycling I don't see any problem with it i did that. to an extent. I had done a dry rock rubble base for where I would be placing the larger Live Rock. But around the base stations I filled the tank with sand just enough for the tops of that rubble to show. witch was about 2in. in a 28g bowfround. I did this to help prevent rock slides from flow and my critters digging at the base points.
Sorry I went off track there....
But yeah when I did this I had no issue with a recycle at any point by adding rock to a new tank or adding more rock to the tank. But every body's tanks act different to every kind of change.
JustinsReefTank
Reefing newb
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