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Ok thank you! Oh it's a bit hard to see, but I added the caulerpa and chaeto AFTER the ammonia hit 0. Because I wanted to ensure I had enough bacteria eating it. Then I ghost fed. And yeah well nitrates were 40-60ppm, but they came down to 20ppm over a week and a bit with macro :) Oh and one...

Ohh I see! Hey btw my cycle graph is Up in another post :)

Here is my cycle graph for those of you who wanted to see it. I have indicated on the graph when live rock and chaeto and purigen where added and all graph conventions are as standard. Also just a note, my dead rock was curing in a bucket of rodi water only with no salt for 2 weeks prior to...

Really? Is it like a trial? I haven't seen anything about it in the hospital yet.

Thank you Joe and Bang Guy :) I will dispose of it safely.

I only added 500grams of live rock from the fish shop. Just to seed the tank. Just a note though, combining the curing of the dead rock and the cycling I've been waiting almost 2 months. I have a one month cycling graph which I made. I'll put it on a new post later today :) And yeah hahaha I...

Lol update I just checked my water today, my nitrates are 20ppm!! My nitrite went from >5ppm to 0.5ppm overnight. Ammonia 0. I think I'll be ready for fish this weekend now. I'm gonna remove the caulerpa now because, it's reduced nitrates from 80ppm to 20ppm over a week and a half, and tripled...

Yes I added live rock

Yes I mean gonna dry it out and bin it. Don't wanna introduce it to any water ways. Ahh ok bin it now? I was gonna let nitrates fall a little further. But I guess the chaeto will eventually grow enough to do that eh? Yes I kept some, but there's room for macroalgae AND I can see the bottom so...

Thank you :) Once the nitrates are lower and my fish are in, I'll be removing the caulerpa anyway. And just keeping the chaeto. Chaeto is too small at the moment but it's starting to grow well.

Oh just something maybe others could teach me about. The live rock pieces I added to my tank and my tunze flow pumps have diatom algae on them. But the remainder of the dead rock, sand and rest of the tank is spotless. This normal?

-yeah the bacteria which convert nitrite are aerobic. Haha when I'm seeing patients it's interesting actually, anaerobic va aerobic bacteria have completely different courses of disease and required treatments as a result. So if we see gas bubbles forming for example on imaging, we'll know...

Will do! Once the chaeto grows a bit better I'll remove most of the caulerpa. How much of the plant do I remove each week? Can't seem to find much online about it.

I added the caulerpa by the way. It's growing new leaves every day. Just wow!

Hey Bang guy, any particular reason you believe nitrite test isn't faulty? Is is it a commonly known thing for API kits? Or I should it weird that nitrates have gone so high and nitrites haven't finished yet? Maybe I'm too new but I thought this amount of time to wait was normal. :)

^Same reason I went with macroalgae too. Seems very cheap. It's working. And long work hours.

Psychedelic mandarin!! If your tank can support that.

Also is your tank cycled...? Is it a new tank?

Is that because Mg stops the CaCO3 from precipitating?

No water changes for 9 years... But like wouldn't trace elements run out by then?? And ahh the nitrites were working before, they tracked up slowly from 0.25->0.5->1->3->5ppm. I'll give it a bit longer before I dump that test. These tests came with my tank. But when I buy tests a few months...