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Marines Cycling
marine cycling tips please?

hi, i have just bought a 10 gallon 50 litre tank for a couple of clown fish (marine). I currently have the sand and salt and heater on theway but only have the filter and water in hand. I was wondering if i can cycle the tank partially sumhow with just the water and filter - the filter is a old one so already has bacteria and the water has been dechlorinated but has no salt in it - i will put salt in when arrives.
Any help on this question and any cycling types appreciated thanks

You have to wait. Marine tanks take a lot of patience and time - months to set up. Especially with a small 10 gallon tank, your water conditions must be well kept because there is little room for error. Also, if you were to start your nitrogen cycle some how without salt, adding salt later (if you add too much), will kill your beneficial bacteria.

Here's an article I dug up about cycling:

The Nitrogen cycle

The most important component of a successful marine tank is a healthy bacteria colony. These bacteria thrive on exactly the chemicals which cause problems in your tank, and the end byproducts are naturally removed, leaving your water safe for fish and other inhabitants. This is known as biological filtration. The bacteria reside on the live rock that you add to the tank, and will quickly spread to the sand bed, along with worms and other helpful creatures.

In order for the biological filter to become established, it must first go through the nitrogen cycle. When you add the live rock to the tank, some of the living things will die and decompose, resulting in a high level of ammonia in the water. Ammonia is poisonous to most creatures. It is important to have a big "spike" in ammonia to start the cycle, thus the addition of the extra food.

In response to the plentiful new ammonia supply, ammonia-eating bacteria thrive. As these bacteria consume the ammonia over a couple of days, they create nitrites as waste. Nitrites are also poisonous to most creatures, and need to be dealt with. Fortunately, other bacteria can help us out.

These bacteria consume nitrites and convert them into nitrates. Nitrates aren't dangerous for fish, but corals and other invertebrates don't like them. Once the nitrites have been converted, then it is safe to add your Clown fish. The last step of the biological filter is converting nitrates into Nitrogen gas.

Do not consider adding corals until several months later to ensure that the biological filter is fully capable of converting all wastes in the tank to harmless nitrogen gas.

While your tank is 'cycling', you will notice a lot of growth of algae. This is normal, and you will probably see 'waves' of different types of algae come and go in the first several months of the tank's life. Algae blooms can be a problem from time to time, but they are rarely dangerous, and good advice from experienced tank keepers will help you deal with the problem.

There are many chemicals out there to expedite the process such as Seachem's Stability or Dr. Tim's. The smallest clown species are Amphiprion percula and A. ocellaris (they are closely related and look similar). You want to avoid some of the larger clown species in any nano tank because they are aggressive (not to mention large), just like most species in the damselfish family.

Also, if you would like more help setting up your nano tank, I suggest visiting nano-reef.com, a forum devoted to small tanks. That is where I learned almost everything about reefkeeping.

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