Hello, I have a few questions about my 210 gallon reef I setup about 2 weeks ago. I added 200 lbs of live sand at the begining. 2 days later I added 100 lbs of cured premium fiji rock and 145 lbs of uncured Lalo rock. Today will be 10 days since adding the rock. I went ahead and installed a Calcium Reactor/ Controller, Ozonizer/ controller and 4 powerheads for wave maker. I changed 65 gallons of water last week when the ammonia levels rose quite high. In the last 24 hours my Ammonia level went form near toxic to 0 but my nitrates went from 0 to 44 this morning. PH is around 8.06. My calcium levels also dropped from about 396 to 251. Redox/ORP is running at 325mv.I have been running 4 96 watt actinics about 8 hours a day sporadic and the last 2 days I ran 3 250 watt 10,000k halides. Do I need to change anymore water or will the nitrates decrease as the rock cures further. Also when is a good time to introduce a cleanup crew to the tank? Any suggestions is appreciated.
Thanks,
Daren Brantley
Thanks,
Daren Brantley