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Unread 12/26/2015, 05:37 AM   #1
Westfield
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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


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Unread 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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