Almost ready to add water - advise please!

[dc4]

Originally Posted by gridley

I appreciate this - I had thought through some aspects of cycling, but not the details of cycling - I had kind of thought that it would do that just by adding the live rock. Are there two cycles that the tank should go through? One once I add some live rock and another when I start adding some nutrients?

Adding rock causes minicycle from the die off of anything that was once living on the rock. For a true cycle, you can dose ammonia or add a piece of fresh shrimp and wait for the spike. Easier to remove if you put the shrimp in some pantyhose.

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[gridley]

When you say to add a pice of fresh shrimp, would this just be a shrimp that we buy from the grocery store?