You should really be monitoring your Ammonia and nitrite levels. You will see a spike in ammonia then a spike in nitrites then both will drop to zero. At that time you Nitrates will be fairly high and a water change of about 10% will being that down. The time line is different for everyone. But if you added fish and inverts right away the cycle will stress them out to the point were some loses may occur.
The point of the cycle is to establish a biological filter within your LR. It increases the organisms that eat ammonia and nitrite. So this is a very important step
J
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12-06-2003, 03:55 PM
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