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Im at a little bit of a loss and im not entirely sure what to do. Roughly 4 days ago I added about 4-6 cups of live sand to my 22 gallon tank. My tank has a 20 gallon sump and the system has been running for about 7 years. After about two days from adding the sand things were closing up a bit so I broke out the test kits. Everything tested out as expected although I was surprised to see 0 nitrates. One thing that was present was about .25 ppm of ammonia. I added a couple caps of stability and waited..nothing seemed to improve in face some.messentrial filaments started popping out on some of my frog spawns. I then did a nother water change and added prime to the tank yesterday late morning. This morning everything is looking about the same/maybe a little more *****. I am at a complete loss of what to do. Has anyone else had a small ammonia spike in their reef? Did it just take days to get better? I have been showing no ammonia since yesterday although I will be adding a bottle of turbo start today because it can't really hurt.