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Originally Posted by daniella3d
+1 on not adding a lot of fish at once. Someone in the reefaction forum lost all of his fish because he added them all at once and there was a huge ammonia spike. Not good. The bacterias are not in suffisant number to support a sudden and large increase in bioload. Do it very gradualy putting the less aggresive fish first and adding the most aggresive last.
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exactly once your tank "cycles" its at the point where your just getting enough bacteria to do its job(always nice to give it a bit of time even when the tests say good)...the bacteria are repopulating in massive numbers but if you add to much they wont be able to keep up and then youll see amonia and nitrite spikes and that equals= dead everything(tank crash)
the same would be said about adding anything to your tank in large numbers lol too much rock added at once is gonna show if you try to compete with the bacteria.... it doesnt take much to keep your fish and corals alive but it doesnt take much to kill them either
haha the best lesson ever "nothing happens fast in a reeftank but disaster"