Forever and a day we have been schooled in how to set up and cycle an aquarium. Set it up, wet it, add bacteria, test, add fish, test again, and then eventually add corals. But here at Reef Builders we can’t help but think there’s another way to fast reef tank cycling, and that actually, people have been doing it wrong all along…
The subject of cycling came up on a recentReef Therapy Podcastwith Mark and Jake. They were talking about setting up tanks, misconceptions, live rock, andnano tanks而同样的主题保持突出 - 现代干燥的岩石坦克之一，各种问题与我们如何用现场摇滚建立礁石坦克，在我们经历的那一天，我们很少有人。
使用珊瑚礁罐的平常方法是适合设备，用干岩，填充，插件，添加细菌，添加鱼，然后饲料，直到您的LFS告诉您添加珊瑚，添加珊瑚。
But we say it’s ok to add corals as soon as the salinity and temperature of that tank are ok, and that it’s not only beneficial to add corals before fish – it’s better for the maturation of the system as a whole. And here’s why.
Freshwater beginnings
The way we cycle adding fish first harks back to the decades-old cycling recipe for freshwater tanks. As good as any filter is it starts off sterile, so the combination of some bottled bacteria and some hardy fish both introduce bacteria and food (ammonia,) which then converts to nitrite and eventually nitrate. When there are sufficientnitrifying bacteria转换由坦克的鱼类产生的所有氨都被视为循环。海军陆战队员也一样。
But with nitrification comes nitrate, and with fish food comes phosphate, so cycle with fish, wait eight weeks before adding corals and the first thing you’ll need to do is change water to lower and reset the nutrient values. You’re also very likely to be suffering from an algae bloom.
然而，从珊瑚开始，你加入水水的那一天，水实际上是珊瑚的最佳化学品。在碳酸盐，钙，镁和痕量元素中高，硝酸盐和磷酸盐低。pH也会很高，因为在坦克中没有任何藻类或有氧细菌呼吸，并侵蚀它。
Think about your equipment too. Yourskimmer不会被仔细或磨损，并将在最佳性能下运行。波浪者将没有缬草和珊瑚藻藻类，并且流动将被相对少量的岩石与成长的坦克造成的岩石。
GFO和碳将是全新的，在他们的吸附最大限度上工作，灯光将没有盐蠕变，用新鲜的二极管，清澈的水渗透，新的无尘冷却风扇。
In many ways a newly set up reef tank is perfect. ICP test your tank right after set up and as long as your rock and substrate are phosphate-free, your water quality should be excellent. So why pollute it and degrade its parameters for two months before?
Oases of life
珊瑚也带来自己的生命 - 他们周围的生物活动群岛 - 特别是在基地上。购买基于陶瓷碎片插头的碎片，该插头本身将成为含有硝化和反硝化细菌，藻类和Meiofauna的微观寿命的绿洲，准备播种新坦克，传播和繁殖。这是一英寸直径的礁避难。
Buy a wild soft coral colony on a rock base, a zoa colony, or amushroom colony,它越来越大的岩石将是活岩，来自海洋的真正交易，也将带来细菌，海绵，微小的Detrivores，Grazers，Macroalgae和Zooplankton的菌株。它从未被干涸过，因为它与珊瑚一起潮湿，在它上面的珊瑚和生物多样性方面，它与六英寸块的岩石一样多样化。这是一块珊瑚礁。
因此，首先将珊瑚添加到您的坦克中，它们不仅茁壮成长，它们也会以比瓶子里的任何东西更好的方式成熟坦克。在他们身上和周围进来的生物将蔓延和填充坦克，繁殖，然后他们本身将成为饥饿，压力，鱼的重要第一件食品。然后鱼会在一个坦克中更好地定居，既看起来像家一样闻到。
第一个添加珊瑚是无鱼骑自行车。对于鱼类而言，对于珊瑚来说，最好的是，由于结果，您将遇到不稳定的水质问题。试一试。
