update on my tank

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Deaner

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heres an update on my setup. got everything up and running. i bought this live rock off a guy, he had it in a rubbermaid with heater and powerhead. Does this mean it is "cured" and i wont be getting much of a ammonia spike from it to start my cycle? i was getting a ammonia reading earlier this week of about 1.0, but now i get nothing. sort of confused? is my tank cycled already? or should i introduce a couple blue/green chromis?

by the way the rock was in a very well established frag tank before i bought it from this guy

my results today are

ammonia = 0
nitrate = 0
nitrite = 0
ph = 7.4

also, the tank has been up and running with everything for a week now.

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Thats a corner? Or is it a bow front? My aunt has a 50 gallon corner with a valentin puffer, marron clown, sail fin blenny and 2 damsels....
 
i havent had a substantial ammonia spike. i dont know whats going on, it was up to 1.0 but now back to zero. how should i raise my ph?
 
The spikes depend on a couple things. Did the guy ever do waterchanges on the rock water, and did it have light. If it didnt have light, there is obviously going to be dead stuff, but water changes could have kept it clean.

Expect a small spike, but nothing like uncured live rock.

pH should be higher. I know plenty of people will stunning reefs though that run their tanks with a pH lower than 8.0. Consistency is more important than "perfect" numbers.

No reef in nature has "perfect" parameters. Perfection does not occur in nature in the sense of water quality. Consistency however, does.
 
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