mcray
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Mar 24, 2014
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- 27
So I'm not trying to put this off on the place I bought my salt water stuff from but whenever I was told what cycling was and the necessities to cycle well what they left out was the bacteria?!?!?!? Maybe I am wrong but when I bought all my supplies they told me my tank would cycle just by using live rock. But after reading on here I believe that's untrue. A few maybe familiar with my story but needless to say I've wasted a ton of money on fish and food and killed two innocent clown fish in this long four month process. My light went off today when I went there to check my levels which I have been doing weekly and noticed my ammonia levels were through the roof and as we put my water under a microscope literally and found no bacteria. That my tank is currently trying to cycle!!!! They gave me a pad with bacteria on it to put in my tank. My question is where to go from here? Obviously a ton more research on my part but as you see with my tank finally actually cycling I have plenty of time to catch up. So please help!!!