Originally posted by dreeves
Take your dead fish out...and you can do a water change...with a 35...about a 5 gallon or so will help the other fish you have left without adversely affecting the cycle too bad...
The white cloudiness in your tank is a bacterial bloom, normal and it will subside.
While cycling...you need to test for the Nitrites at first...once they start going up, then begin testing for Nitrates...the Amonia is a given...so testing it at this stage is a waste of test...once your Nitrates start soaring....the Nitrites and Amonia should be settling down...this is when to start testing for the Amonia...
Coralline Algae will grow when spores are introduced into the tank via live rock, or starter plugs...Coralline will not thrive in a nasty tank, ie...poorly maintained...without a reef environment...calcium supplementation is not needed...the coralline will still grow...just not as fast.
Cool, got it. Thanks