HELP! I am such a dork and perhaps homicidal!

[ducky]

Well I am finally getting to work in my 180G after the original leaked out. I ordered a clean up crew first then lucked into this great deal on craig's list for LR. I ended up also getting her engineer goby, yellow tang and flameback angel, additionally a lawnmower blenny hitchhiked on one of the rocks. There was a BTA on one of the rocks as well.
She prepared the rock in containers with new salt water but it was not heated so all of the corals, the BTA and the blenny have had quite a shock.
After adding 100 lbs of the LR and making sure to get it as close to the bottom of the tank to make sure that the engineer didn't topple anything on the first day I got a bit ambitious and started injecting the majano anemones with JJ which of course made them shrivel and then started trying to pick them off the rock intact, I maybe got the 10 largest out of 50. I am so stupid. I should have just let them alone for the time being!
The second day I picked up the fish. After much fiddling with the arrangement I did another water test and what was perfect water now has an amonia spike of 0.2 ppm. I added amguard but don't have their test kit so mine is useless for 24 hours or more.
My Tank: 180G DT with 3"-4" DSB roughly 200lbs of LR
2 HQI MH, 1 175W 20,000K SEMB MH, 2 36W PC actinics and 2 65W PC 10,000K
I have a sump with 20lbs of LR, macro algae, cc substrate, and ASM G-3 Skimmer. I have two magnum 350s I can run if needed with carbon or polishing filter.

 

[ducky]

I called SeaChem today to ask about my dosage and they said 3.5 teaspoons which is more than I had.
I know that this is not a permanent fix but hopefully it can help until my LR can catch up.
Should I keep trying to get the majona anemonies out of the tank? I did a small water change and am going to pick up another batch today for another change. Any other possible solutions? Anyone?

 

[bonebrake]

You really should not have to do anything. If that rock was already cultured it should be able to handle that tiny bit of ammonia relatively quickly unless it was dry for an extended period of time (24 hours or more). Ammonia is poisonous to fish and invertebrates, but 0.2 ppm is very low and there may be more harm than good done by doing multiple water changes trying to lower an already low level of ammonia by fluctuating temperature, pH, and salinity with water changes.

 

[ducky]

Thanks BoneBrake!
I had read that .2 ppm is high. And of course it may be for the BTA but not for the fish. The BTA is not fully inflated but otherwise looking pretty good considering what it went through to get to my tank.
None of the rock was out of the water for more than a few seconds but went into newly mixed unheated SW and then into my tank with no acclimation, normally not an issue except most of it was covered with corals.
I got 1 LPS coral not identified and 2 unidentified SPS corals along with more star polyps, softies and mushrooms. Most have the polyps out and seem to be doing well.

 

[zeroc]

you should be cool to continue your attack on the majanos. They're a pain the butt. I know. i keep JJ filled up in the syringe next to my tank so the second i see one i can get it, give them an inch and they'll take 20 feet.

 

[bonebrake]

0.2 ppm ammonia is high in the sense that you want it to always be zero, but when it comes to toxicity most creatures will tolerate 0.2 ppm ammonia for quite awhile with no long term issues and in your case it should be back to zero within 24-72 hours. When ammonia hits 1.0 ppm and up most fish and corals will be in acute distress and die relatively quickly.