Saltwater Aquarium Setup for Beginners: When to Add Corals
A beginner’s guide to starting a saltwater aquarium and adding corals to your reef tank! How do you cycle a saltwater aquarium? When can you add corals to your reef tank? This video goes over the process of cycling a saltwater aquarium through the nitrogen cycle and four things you can observe in your reef tank that indicate you are ready to add your first beginner corals!
Check out my beginner’s guide to reefing for more:
Hope this video was useful to you starting your saltwater aquarium ♡ Let me know in the comments what corals you plan on adding to your reef tank!
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IS YOUR SALTWATER AQUARIUM READY FOR CORALS?
1. Made sure your reef tank has fully cycled through the nitrogen cycle.
2. Noticed algae blooms in your tank like green hair algae, cyano algae, dinoflagellates, or diatoms.
3. Kept stable water parameters.
4. Seen coraline algae growth on your aquascape.
The key to keeping saltwater aquariums is making sure you keep your water parameters stable. Keeping up with your maintenance of weekly water changes and regular testing of your water goes a long way to stability!
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