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April Debuysere

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I dont have any experience with ATM bacteria. If you do not have nitrites a good test is;  add ammonia until you have a level of 2ppm then test 24 hours later. If ammonia is 0 and no nitrites are present then your tank is ready for livestock. How big a tank and how many fish is the next question. If you add too many, too fast, you will get more ammonia than the tank can process.

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From your posts it sounds like you added some live rock that had hermits on it.  Between adding bacteria and using live rock I wouldn't expect any nitrites to show up for long even if it was ever at detectable levels.  For what it's worth I haven't had a nitrite test kit for 15 years or more.

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