Water Testing

[Sam1969]

Thanks ... I'm just starting with my cleanup crew first, once I have that established I plan on adding fish and coral.

[justinl]

For now, the most important ones are ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. You should have tested those throughout the cycle, but no worries. test them now and get back to us before adding livestock.

you should also test the other big water params. like salinity (use a refractometer), temp, and pH.

[kwirky]

it's not "perfect" but some invertibrates can withstand nitrates of around 3ppm or so. make sure it's zero ammonia and nitrite though for at least a week straight.