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I don't remember the brand of my test kit, but it has exact amount of drops to be added to 5 ml of water. i have a picture of the tests i did yesterday, http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?i...tank001fv3.jpg

ok so leave the live rock in. I buy all my live rock from lfs's so its all good i guess. the 4 pounds i bought yesterday look strange compaired to the 4 pounds i got the other day. What colors on a live rock are good and what are bad?

ok my ammonia is spiked right now, i havent seen any nitrates at all yet, is that wierd? Also, when its done cycling, do i leave the live rock in there? whats the pro's/con's of live rock? right now, i have about 8 pounds in there, but i plan on going as much as 30 (heard i need at least one...

I read that the ammonia will spike extremely high cuasing your biological filter to build up and reduce it to almost nothing. Once its back down to acceptable levels, your tank is cycled. And that the bigger the tank, the longer it takes to cycle. Is all of this stuff true? About how long do you...

yeah pm me that info. I think i already know what site your talking about, but we will see. I bought another 4 pounds of live rock today, slowly getting to 30 pounds lol. I guess its a good thing im broke otherwise my patients would run out and i would be putting fish in it now. But i am so ill...

Originally Posted by heavyroller I must say you sound like I did when I first started my first tank 4 years ago. I had it set up as a freshwater tank, drained it and added about 15# of live rock and used petsmart salt and tap water. I never ran a skimmer, used the basic lights for my freshwater...

Ok so i have had fish tanks my whole life, but all have been freshwater. About two months ago I was checking out some fish that i liked and they turned out to be saltwater. So i went home and did some research (not enough as you will soon see) and came across some stuff that seemed to point that...