First batch of measurements
Well, the tank has been cycling for about a week now, I decided to take my first batch of measurements to see how things are progressing.
Temperature: 76
Salinity: 1.025 (added some water just now, trying to get it back to 1.023)
pH: 7.5 - I am told that my pH should always be above 8.1 I don't know yet if this is something remedied by the cycling process or if there is some sort of pH adjustment chemical/proceedure I need to use. If anyone knows that would be great!
Ammonia - 0.04 - Looks safe to me. I figured there would be more Ammonia this early in the cycle process but I guess it's going along better than I thought.
Nitrite - 0.0
All in all it looks like the cycling is going well but it is going to take a while longer before I begin to introduce any livestock or anything like that. Picking up some more rock from a coworker who got out of the hobby a while back. I will work on adding that and aquascaping until all of my levels read safe.
-Eric
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