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That still leaves good potential to burn the fishes gills from ammonia. The macros help on the nitrate front, but you still need nitrifying bacteria at work before things can get to that point.What I do and recommend is setup the tank with lotsa macro algae (in a refugium) right from the start.
then wait a week and start the tank with a male molly. And don't add food for a week. Then start feeding a single flake per day after that.
The macros will prevent the dangerous cycles so there will be no stress to the molly.
then, after everything is running, slowly add the marine only more expensive fish.
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