New to salt water aquarium life and each day brings more questions. I'm on day 13 of cycling my new 58 gallon tank. What appears to be some brown rust algae/diatoms are appearing in my tank and ammonia levels are very slowly rising.
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Here are my measurements:
Temp: 76.1F
Salinity: 1.0253 SG
pH: 8.3
Ammonia: .4ppm (been rising steadily over the past few days)
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 1ppm (ish?)
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How am I doing? Should I be making any adjustments or continue letting the chemistry do its thing? I have not added any raw shrimp or anything to the tank, I just got about 45 lbs of live rock from my LFS to combine with 10-15 lbs of dry rock/rubble. There are about 20 additional gallons of water in play when you consider the sump, if that matters. Any advice or assurances are appreciated, you guys have been an immense help and I don't even have any fish or inverts yet...
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Here are my measurements:
Temp: 76.1F
Salinity: 1.0253 SG
pH: 8.3
Ammonia: .4ppm (been rising steadily over the past few days)
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 1ppm (ish?)
Image 2: https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.spr...3edabfb7/ddae8f60-56c0-43da-8c16-706c5b9d81f5
How am I doing? Should I be making any adjustments or continue letting the chemistry do its thing? I have not added any raw shrimp or anything to the tank, I just got about 45 lbs of live rock from my LFS to combine with 10-15 lbs of dry rock/rubble. There are about 20 additional gallons of water in play when you consider the sump, if that matters. Any advice or assurances are appreciated, you guys have been an immense help and I don't even have any fish or inverts yet...