So I'm back into the hobby after a few years. I have 30lbs of dry rock, dry sand and 3lbs of live rock to seed the tank. After a week ammonia spiked and then nitrites shortly after. After about 2.5 weeks levels are zero and nitrates are 20ppm. Still waiting for diatom bloom. How can it have cycled this fast??? Either way gonna play it safe and not add a clean up crew till about week 5, then MABYE a fish after a few more weeks after that. One thing I remember about this hobby is a lot of patience and a lot of reading.


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