New Matured Tank

[David Burton]

All,

I have recently purchased a new marine tank, of 420L. I have been maturing
the tank over the past week with live rock only and within one week the
nitrates have gone up the scale and now have gone down to <0.3 mg/l after
only one week!

I now see the tank water as being matured and am able to add the first
'tester' fish to the tank, do you agree and can you tell me whether the
above sounds right to you?

Other tank stats are:

pH 8.3
Temp 26.3
SG 1.021
Phosphate 0.0pm

Thanks majorly in advance,
David

[David Burton]

All,

Apologies I meant to state 'Nitrites' and not 'Nitrates' in my below post.
The temperature needless to say is in degrees celsius.

Thanks,
David

> All,
>
> I have recently purchased a new marine tank, of 420L. I have been maturing
> the tank over the past week with live rock only and within one week the
> nitrates have gone up the scale and now have gone down to <0.3 mg/l after
> only one week!
>
> I now see the tank water as being matured and am able to add the first
> 'tester' fish to the tank, do you agree and can you tell me whether the
> above sounds right to you?
>
> Other tank stats are:
>
> pH 8.3
> Temp 26.3
> SG 1.021
> Phosphate 0.0pm
>
> Thanks majorly in advance,
> David
>
>

[Pszemol]

"David Burton" > wrote in message . uk...
> I now see the tank water as being matured and am able to add the first
> 'tester' fish to the tank, do you agree and can you tell me whether the
> above sounds right to you?

What is your desired fish you want to keep in this tank?
Do not buy "tester-only" fish you intend to have only during testing...
Rather start stocking your tank with target fish population starting
from the hardiest species. Also, you need to observe territoriality of
fish you introduce to not cause conflict between resident and new fish.

[David Burton]

Pszemol,

Thank you for your response, sorry if I did not make it clear but I already
have a marine tank and am planning to migrate its occupants into this new
one and not to buy 'tester' fish purely for this purpose.

After one week and the nitrites showing a low reading I am seeing this as a
sign of a matured tank and currently I have placed a blue damsel in the tank
with a lemon peel angel. I am less concerned with the fish going into the
tank but the fact of do you think this tank has now matured enough from the
information given to make it acceptable to start adding hardy fishes into
it?

Thanks,
David

[kim gross]

My only concern for you that the nitrite is not down to zero. I would
suggest waiting a little longer myself. And I would suggest doing a
water change, put new water in your old tank, your old tank water in the
new tank and through out the new tank water. This will help to move
some of the bacteria from one tank to the other.

Kim


David Burton wrote:

> Pszemol,
>
> Thank you for your response, sorry if I did not make it clear but I already
> have a marine tank and am planning to migrate its occupants into this new
> one and not to buy 'tester' fish purely for this purpose.
>
> After one week and the nitrites showing a low reading I am seeing this as a
> sign of a matured tank and currently I have placed a blue damsel in the tank
> with a lemon peel angel. I am less concerned with the fish going into the
> tank but the fact of do you think this tank has now matured enough from the
> information given to make it acceptable to start adding hardy fishes into
> it?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>