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12/26/2015, 05:37 AM | #1 |
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Ready to add animals ???
Built a 20 gallon w new sand and new dry live rock/coral NO FISH
Have added MicroBacter7 by Brightwell to activate per instructions during a 5 week period Have "ghost-feed" for 2 weeks Test nbrs are consistent except Calcium and I raised it Ammon - almost ZERO (am filtering and chg H2O now) Nitrite - ZERO, Phosphate - almost ZERO Nitrate - ZERO, Calcium - ~450, pH - 8.0+ Any reason other than getting Ammon to ZERO not to begin adding animals Thanks Much - John |
12/26/2015, 02:29 PM | #2 |
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I would wait for a week of zero ammonia before adding any animals. Ammonia kits are infamous for failing and measuring small amounts of ammonia everywhere, though, so if the process seems to be taking a long time, I'd get a second opinion.
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