People go back and forth on the bagged "live" sand. It's what I did and
things worked out fine, but I'll never know if it was my rock, my chemicals
or what that got me through the cycle. I do know to stop water changes if
you don't have purchased animals to save. You WANT the process to happen as
large or small as the rock, etc. dictates. If you want to speed things up
just throw in Bio-Spira (I've had no experience with this item) or Biozyme
(I've had great experience with this one.) But honestly, don't stress
yourself. You could just sit back and watch...

Go grab a book and do some reading during this phase. One important thing I
learned when starting, everyone has different opinions and techniques on
aquariums. They all may work too. But you cannot take one's advice here
and piece it together with another's advice at different stages. You need
to pick a path and stick to it or you probably will have problems. A book
will give you a full set up advice from start to finish.

B


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"kim gross" wrote in message
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Don't do any more water changes. The best thing you could do though is
get a cup or two of sand from another established tank. That will let
you move a good head start of bacteria into your tank and cut the cycle
time way down.

Thanks for all your advice. The sand in my tank is Carib sea
Agra-Alive---It`s supposed to have bacteria. Should I still get some stuff
from another tank?