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Thanks hack-- yea I've been really high in ammonia a week or so ago then this past weekend my nitrite was REAL high.. Now all is 0.. I should do a water change? 25%? and when you say slowly add live stock, is that like one piece a week?
so you used fish to cycle? you probably had no idea (neither did i when if i first started) but you could have done a fishless cycle by dropping a raw shrimp in there so none of your live stock would die during the cycle so they all made it?
Actually one didn't make it so I replaced it because someone said the amount of ammonia should stay the same or something.. The guy at my first LFS suggested I buy the $6.99 chromis to cycle.. Go figure
So yea other than the little one everything has been good and my water hasn't looked better than it does now.. But I'll be keeping an eye on it
are you sure your nitrates are 0? 2 weeks with fish in your tank pooping and eating ( i assume you fed them) you would have saw some type of spike in parameters did you ever have nitrate at all?
wait so you had nitrates before today and today they read 0? did you do any water changes or anything? i'm gonna go with flake they wouldnt just disappear to zero on their own