-May 30th (Thursday) I began transferring contents from my 240G system to a Redsea Reefer. I used about 60-80lbs of 3 year old live rock and the aragonite from the larger system. I would siphon out the substrate and rinse it about 5 times with tank water to make it clean as possible. Once the scape was done I loaded the tank with the CUC and ran a chemiclean cycle for the next two days. Tank looked incredible once the lights where back on.
-June 1st (Saturday) I moved the tank into its final place and did a 100% water change with Tropic-Marin Bio-Actif, let everything settle for the next day
-June 2nd (Sunday) I added a bottle of bacteria, white tail bristle-tooth tang and my trio of Lyretail Anthias. I was hoping the added bacteria and established sand/rock would allow me to do so
-Today (June 4th) early AM I test ammonia just to see with an API test kit. Results where not good... Granted I'm not sure if I waited 5 or 10 minutes, the results still showed between .25-.5 PPM of ammonia
Is this possible/likely or are these test kits garbage? I've read that they often read ammonia when there is none. When I left everything seemed fine, inverts doing there thing and fish where swimming around normally last night.
What should my next move be, 50% water change? More bacteria? Remove the fish?
-June 1st (Saturday) I moved the tank into its final place and did a 100% water change with Tropic-Marin Bio-Actif, let everything settle for the next day
-June 2nd (Sunday) I added a bottle of bacteria, white tail bristle-tooth tang and my trio of Lyretail Anthias. I was hoping the added bacteria and established sand/rock would allow me to do so
-Today (June 4th) early AM I test ammonia just to see with an API test kit. Results where not good... Granted I'm not sure if I waited 5 or 10 minutes, the results still showed between .25-.5 PPM of ammonia
Is this possible/likely or are these test kits garbage? I've read that they often read ammonia when there is none. When I left everything seemed fine, inverts doing there thing and fish where swimming around normally last night.
What should my next move be, 50% water change? More bacteria? Remove the fish?