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Old 07-23-2007, 01:27 PM   #182 (permalink)
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Re: Here We Go Again!

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If I'm curing the liverock in a bucket and then adding it to the tank, the tank itself would never have the cycle. The bucket would have the cycle. ???
The rock or sand is what is curing not the tank nor the bucket, so once the cycle is complete and you place the rock back in the tank you will not have another cycle. Now as you add livestock you have to do it slowly so that the bacteria levels have a chance to catch up otherwise it's possible to get a sudden ammonia spike because bacterial levels have not adjusted to the increase in bio-load.
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