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Your calcs look fine, but remember that too much is not a bad thing.
Your tank will cycle quicker and you can always do a huge water change
afterwards. Remember, the bacteria live mainly on surfaces, so even a
complete water change will leave your bacteria colonies intact.

Forgive me Alan, but too much ammonia can be a bad thing. It is
possible to overdose ammonia during a fishless cycle. The following is
an excerpt from http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquamag/cycle2.html -

You're forgiven ;-)

Interesting info. I guess I should modify my comment to "too much is not
a bad thing unless you go way too much" !! I know when I cycled my last
tank, I added far too much, but it cycled in a few days and all has been
well ever since. I added a tank load of fish over two days and didn't
lose a single one.

Thanx for the info.

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Alan Silver