Setting up frag tank do i need to cycle.

[ravi197699]

hello m/r i am setting up frag tank next to my display tank and i will plumb this tank with sump that i have. since its brand new tank do i need to worry about cycle or it should be ok since i will be using water from my exixting sump ?

 

[KathyC]

How big is your current tank and how long has it been running?
What size is the frag tank you are adding?

 

[andylee]

+1.
If it is a relatively small volume compared to what you already have, your present tank can probably absorb and process the spike that will inevitably occur.

 

[thirty5]

Adding water volume will not really cause a spike or a cycle. If you are adding more water volume should not be an issue, unless you don't have enough filtration. But corals wont' have a huge bioload.

If you plan to fill with rock for just frags, that may be an issue. But if you are talking just a tank with JUST FRAGS on eggcrate, I think that you are fine to just add it.

IMO the more water the better (within reason) as long as you are not running that water with additional bioload.

 

[ravi197699]

thanks for all the suggestions and i will try to answer all the questions with
1. display tanks is 2 yrs old and have corlas rock and 5" sand bed and tank is healthy and i have 75 gal sump size if frag tank is 18x18x6 and this is going to be only egg crate with frags no live rock or sand just egg crate and frags.

 

[duke62]

you wont have any cycle. if its a tank with no dead algae on the glass its just like adding water to the tank.

 

[andylee]

That should not be a problem. Minimal additional bioload. No die-off from rock or sand. Your existing system should barely notice it. Just out of curiosity, what is the volume of your display, since I assume all the water is going to be in the same system?

 

[ravi197699]

my display is 120 gal with 75 gal sump and system is already running with corals and live rock, deep sand bed and its 2 years old and frag tank is brand new there is no alage or rock going to be in frag tank just egg crate and frags and some clowns and chromises in frag tank .

 

[KathyC]

Looking good, there should be no cycling issues adding a frag tank of that size onto your existing system.

If you happen to take pics as you go along, it might be something interesting to add to your tank thread or write up as a DIY thread

 

[duke62]

If you have SPS frags going in there you might want to think about a wrasse as well.

 

[ravi197699]

sure it will be sps and they are going to stay in there up to certen growth and then i will move them to my dt tank since water parameters are going to be same it should be easy to put them in dt tank . so no need to worrry about cycling issues .

 

[duke62]

new frags so yeah get a wrasse. i have a small 6line in mine. great pest eaters

 

[ravi197699]

i like wrasses i will adding 6 or 8 line and yellow coris and cleaner wrasse