Am I ready to ad livestock?

[Smeagle]

Im pretty sure everything is good and I can ad coral/a goby, but I thought it best to run my perimeters and setup past people with more experience before I do.

Tank:
5.5 gallon
reused liverock with lots of dead stuff thats gone now
lots of fuzzy algae
carbon and phosban in hob

Perimeters:
79 degrees
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
ph hard to tell but seems normal

To test my cycle I brought the ammonia up to .5ppm and it was gone by morning along with zero nitrates as well.

 

[Smeagle]

Also should I worry about using a bunch of phosban once I get livestock, whenever I replace it (about once a week) it makes the tank all cloudy. I have no idea what my phosphates are but I thought it a good idea because it was old rock and I have algae. I could just take it out and I would probably be fine.

 

[scooter31707]

Ammonia needs to come up to 2ppm and has to be gone within 24hrs. Did you test during the cycle? How did you jump start the cycle?

 

[Smeagle]

I just brought it up to .5ppm as advised by someone on the forum. If its really important please tell me cuz im planning to go to get a fish today. I jump started the cycle with bottled bacteria and dead matter on the rock along with ghost feeding.

 

[Sk8r]

There's trouble in this thread. Phosban should be in a reactor: it shouldn't be 'making the tank cloudy.' Follow the instructions. I don't think you're ready. You can get your fish for a non-cycled qt with a daily filter/water change, but your parameters are incomplete. Alkalinity should be 8.3, and 'normal' worries me. We don't know salinity; we don't know what this 'cloudiness' is.

 

[Smeagle]

Excuse me I meant phosguard, which is suitable for a reactor bag. From what I understand cloudiness after adding new media is normal and it goes away within about 30 minutes. By normal PH I meant from what ive read ph can vary and test kits arnt very accurate, its around 8.4.

 

[Smeagle]

The tank water is very clear, salinity is 1.024...
I was just talking about right after I change media it goes away quickly, just curous about wether for safety's sake I should stop using it altogether to reduce things that could go wrong

 

[scooter31707]

any GFO or phosguard needs to be rinse prior to using.