Seanytotha
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Okay so this is my first time cycling a tank with dry rock so bare with me lol.
I finally had filled the tank up yesterday, had both dry rock and live sand put in together. The next day I put in a piece of live rock from my currently running tank as my seed rock with two cups of sand from the same tank into the new tank. I then hooked up my biopellet reactor and threw in two cubes of frozen mysis into the filter sock to get my ammonia started.
Now my question is, when should I expect to see my ammonia levels spike? I'm aiming for at least 2ppm on ammonia and I felt that two cubes of frozen mysis (I didn't have any raw shrimp laying around lol) would've been more than enough. Maybe I'm just being impatient but I kind've expected some sort of ammonia level to show up since yesterday but still nothing. Should I place another cube or maybe a whole piece or two of raw shrimp into the tank?
ALSO! I tested my PH and it's only at 7.8 when the salt I'm using (Aquavitro) states that it's salt is balanced between 8.2 to 8.4? Is this normal as the tank is still pretty much brand new and it'll start rising as it starts to mature? I'm looking to set it up as an SPS dominated tank which is why I'm concerned about the PH lol. I figured it shouldn't really matter right now since it's still cycling but it's just something I want to know.
I finally had filled the tank up yesterday, had both dry rock and live sand put in together. The next day I put in a piece of live rock from my currently running tank as my seed rock with two cups of sand from the same tank into the new tank. I then hooked up my biopellet reactor and threw in two cubes of frozen mysis into the filter sock to get my ammonia started.
Now my question is, when should I expect to see my ammonia levels spike? I'm aiming for at least 2ppm on ammonia and I felt that two cubes of frozen mysis (I didn't have any raw shrimp laying around lol) would've been more than enough. Maybe I'm just being impatient but I kind've expected some sort of ammonia level to show up since yesterday but still nothing. Should I place another cube or maybe a whole piece or two of raw shrimp into the tank?
ALSO! I tested my PH and it's only at 7.8 when the salt I'm using (Aquavitro) states that it's salt is balanced between 8.2 to 8.4? Is this normal as the tank is still pretty much brand new and it'll start rising as it starts to mature? I'm looking to set it up as an SPS dominated tank which is why I'm concerned about the PH lol. I figured it shouldn't really matter right now since it's still cycling but it's just something I want to know.
