Virtual Balboa
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No, I didn't mean what you said was confusing. I meant it's confusing when so many people have a difference in opinion. Which is something I've been running into quite a bit.
Keeping my bacteria alive
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There are very few "truths" in this hobby. What works for one person doesn't work for everyone. The glass encased habitats we create are incredibly complex and no two tanks are the same.
Keep in mind that every time you add something to your tank, it will "cycle," so to speak. The bacterial population of your tank will adapt to the increase in nutrients. There will be some lag time between the influx of nutrients (ammonia, in this case) and the increase in bacteria so a small rise in ammonia after a new addition is not abnormal.
My advice, fwiw, is "don't sweat it." If you add fish slowly, chances are good that nothing will die as a result of ammonia poisoning from the changing equilibrium, even in an uncycled tank. And once that ammonia is converted to nitrite, you're golden. Nitrite isn't the issue in saltwater that it is in freshwater. In fact, it takes 344 ppm of nitrite to kill 50% of a population of ocellaris clownfish. You'd have to be trying to reach those levels. They don't happen by accident.
Virtual Balboa
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Thanks, that's sound advice! :fish2:
