AquaRick
Aquarium Advice Addict
Also added a cap full of ammonia from Acehardware and my ammonia is 2 ppm. The lfs said he never heard of doing this with live rock the end of a cycle. Basically:
Did I do any harm by adding buffer for ph 8.2 and Alk 12 currently?
Is dosing toward the end of the cycle with lr to 2 ppm of ammonia sufficient?
I don't think you did any permanent harm to your tank dosing with buffer. But in the future wait until your cycle is complete to dose with any chemical...and only use it if you NEED to. Honestly, the LFS should have known better; but a sale is a sale i suppose.
I'd dose to 4ppm and if no ammonia or trites then you're good to go.