sdaccord03
Aquarium Advice Regular
I have a few easy (for most of you) questions.
1. When they say 1.5 - 2 lbs per gallon of live rock for the Berlin method, does that mean the size of the tank or the amount of water actually in the tank. (ie a 55 gallon tank with 55 lbs or rock probably only has about 40 gallons of water).
2. After about a month, my ammonia is still showing 6.0 according to the Mardel Master test kit (test strips) but my nitrites are starting to drop and my nitrates have stayed about the same. Did I just put too much of a bio-load in at once and cause an ammonia spike? The tanks been up for about a month now? Its a nano-reef six gallon Eclipse tank.
Thanks in advance.
JW
1. When they say 1.5 - 2 lbs per gallon of live rock for the Berlin method, does that mean the size of the tank or the amount of water actually in the tank. (ie a 55 gallon tank with 55 lbs or rock probably only has about 40 gallons of water).
2. After about a month, my ammonia is still showing 6.0 according to the Mardel Master test kit (test strips) but my nitrites are starting to drop and my nitrates have stayed about the same. Did I just put too much of a bio-load in at once and cause an ammonia spike? The tanks been up for about a month now? Its a nano-reef six gallon Eclipse tank.
Thanks in advance.
JW