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test every couple of days
Seffie x
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What's your stats sitting at the minute Ehudd.
Looks like the rock wasn't cured properly. You'll just have to wait it out. Mine was a nightmare, I thought the thing was never gonna cycle. Dont worry too much about the rock being grubby. When everything is up and running and before you add corals. Get yourself a Sea Hare it will munch most of your algae down to manageable size.
I found that out by mistake it came in as a hitch-hiker and it was brilliant at algae removal.
Regards
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You'll just have to wait it out mate, nothing else for it.The ammonia is higher than the actual chart and nitrate is 15pmm. 1.025 salinity.
I will do all the tests midweek sometime.
Two weeks. if it is un-cured, you still have loads of waiting to doWork gets "cured" live-rock delivered from London, and that usually takes about 3-4 weeks to re-cure
When they used to buy un-cured, it took nearer 3 months to become ready for sale as cured rock. If it was un-cured, make yourself ready for a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggg wait
All the best
rabbut
Depends how much you are going to add. Adding only a relatively small ammount is unlikely to make much difference. If you are getting on for doubling the amount, you will likely see a notable difference![]()
Absolutely would help in this situation, even a modest amount of say 1-2kg would be a big help in both the seeding and starting to process some of that ammonia.......do you think adding some fully cured rock would help seed the uncured stuff? or just add to the problems?
.........so
i put my OLD red sea berlin skimmer in, just an air driven one, just wanted to have 2 running, was away for 2 days, came back to see a WHOLE cup of black muck in it, and my new skimmer with nothing!!!
Needless to say.... ammonia....
wait for it....
NILL!
as for nitrites and nitrates NOTHING! Big sigh of releif, but im going to leave it to sit a little more, maybe for another week, got the same crabs back into the tank now, gonna guy some snails to, im so happy
Thats good news Ehudd, Have those hitchhiking rics survived ok?