How to Manage the Ugly Stage of a New Reef Tank
MICHAEL PALETTA6 DAYS AGO
There are few inevitable things in life and even fewer in this hobby. But the one inevitable that everyone encounters when they set up a new tank is that there will be an ugly phase. It does not matter if you are starting out or have been doing this for a long time use the best wet live rock or dead dry rock, a new tank will have an ugly phase.
I thought I would not have this problem when I simply moved the live rock from a five-year-old 300-gallon tank to a new 500-gallon tank as the rock I was using was twenty years old. I was wrong. Despite everything that I knew, or thought I knew and all the preparation and improvements made on the new tank, once everything was switched over the tank still went through what has come to be known as the ugly phase.
So, what exactly is the “ugly phase”? As with most living things, a reef tank and the live rock in it are living things, and when there is a change, even a small one, there is an adjustment phase.
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There are few inevitable things in life and even fewer in this hobby. But the one inevitable that everyone encounters when they set up a new tank is that there will be an ugly phase.
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