Willba200
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- Nov 1, 2013
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Hi, been cycling tank for 4/5 weeks. Used a couple of prawns and ammonia shot up then after few days my readings were all 0. My problem is I have a A.P.I test kit and was not shaking the nitrate tube enough! ( don't have instruction card). All tests apart from nitrate are 0. My nitrate now that I'm doing it properly is between 30/40ppm. I take it that my tank has cycled and I need to get nitrate down to 0 by doing water changes? Should I do this daily or weekly? Other problem is I put 3 hermit crabs in on Sunday and 3 turbo snails also! Will they be ok? I feel a bit of a idiot in thinking that all this time my nitrates were at 0. Any advice. Thanks. I'm using live rock live sand and a protein skimmer as my filtration. Also have a couple of powerheads.