zenway9
Member
here's what i ended up doing. i tested my water again tonight and i got the same exact numbers for the last 5 days. i went ahead and threw a RAW shrimp in there to get this thing kick started. i will be adding LR on friday. i think the experienced people on this board need to specify from now on to throw a RAW shrimp in the tank and not a shrimp cocktail. a shrimp cocktail is a boiled shrimp ready to serve, a RAW shrimp is exactly that. as a newbie, i got alot of good help, but at the same time i should have been doing alot more of my own thinking rather than blindly following some of the posts on this board. the past 2 weeks have been a complete waste, so now i basically have to start over again.