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8lbs of my live rock come from a new shipment the lfs just received and never had time to put it back in their tank to recur. when i place the rock in the tank and did an ammonia test it was at a spike. I just assumed the the ammonia spike was from die off from the rock. the other 2lbs of rock...

Just set up a new Salt water aquarium just over a week ago. 10 Gallon tank 10lbs of live rock 54 watts of 6500K florescent lighting 14 watts of actinic lighting ph 8.2 ammonia as high as the scale reads nitrites as high as the scale reads nitrates as high as the scale reads Calcium 280...

thanks everyone for the advice.

New to SW aquarium. I recently set up a new 10Gallon SW aquarium. Today i put 10lbs of cured live rock in my tank at least i though. LFS just had the shipment come in today and when i placed the rock in my aquarium, then I did an ammonia test and it was of the scale. PH was 8.2-8.3, nitrite was...