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Old 12-19-2008, 07:22 PM
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Does anyone have experiance seeding base rock?
I have some experience with that. I started just like you and now have much more live rock. I think it took a little while for my base rock to become "live". For sure, the more live rock you have, the less time it take to seed the base rock.

How old is your tank now?

Personally, I would start adding some live stock after the last ammonia pick.
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Old 12-19-2008, 07:52 PM
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The tank is only 2 1/2 weeks old. The amonia dropped to 0 about 4 days ago. Last night the nitrite was down to 0.1ppm. Nitrate has always been 0.

I knew going this route that it was going to take time to seed. I was planning on 4-6 months to seed everything. However, things seem to be moving a lot faster than I had thought. The cycle is nearing an end already and I have coraline patches on my powerhead already.

There is a snail living in the live rock but its not doing much in the way of cleaning. So if its not too soon I will add a small crew once the cycle is done.

The base rock is very porous, it looks like old reef rock. I believe its tufa. I am a little unsure though on when I can add fish. Is the base rock an adequate filter because of the bacteria it gained from the cycle or is it an adequate filter after 6 months of critters, and algea, etc.?
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Old 12-19-2008, 09:11 PM
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IMO i would add more LR aswell, but i would do it sooner than later. i have had spikes due to die off on on the trip from the LFS to my house and this caused a small cycle.
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