First time reef keeping need help

chiro

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So basically my reef tank has been cycled for around 3 weeks without a fish. I went to vacation thats why i couldn't start adding fish yet but im considering adding this week.
Last week i added a small chunk of shrimp meat before leaving the house just for some amonia source to keep my bacterias alive. I went back home a week later and checked my water parameters and here are the results provided in the image.
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Let me know if my cycling stalled or still going well.
 
I have perused all eight of your threads which continue asking the same thing.

In looking at your test kit results, I don’t trust your pH or your ammonia results. You were advised to get different test kits. Is there a LFS that can do test for you.

In all of your test, nitrate has shown up. This means that you have bacteria that have processed both ammonia & nitrite into nitrate.

ITS TIME TO ADD LIVESTOCK.
 
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