Water Parmeters

Well, I set up my 30 gal coral frag tank last night and did a water test today. My ammonia kit MUST be bad as it was showing ammonia off the charts in both the tank and from the faucet. So I'm going after a new kit. As for the other tests, here are the results.

Nitrite - .02 mg/l
Nitrate - 5 mg/l
Calcium - 470+ mg/l
Carbonate - 214.8 ppm KH
Phosphate - 0 ppm mg/l

Now there is no life in this tank at this time. Just newly mixed Instant Ocean Sea Salt. Any comments?

Amph, this was such a quick set up that I had to use tap water. The RO/DI system hasn't shown up yet. This is a coral frag tank and coral showed up 2 weeks earlier than I had expected. I just got back from the LFS and he has new testing equipment and said everything looked pretty good for what I have going on. The ammonia ket, which I bought last month, had expired in Aug. 2008.

Amph, We have a local water district and it does come from a well. I thought corals needs extra calcium. By the way, my LFS guy gave me small frag of favia, not quite as colorful as I would like to put into my tank but, FREE is quite nice.

Well, this is the only freeby so far. I do need to get some of the frag plugs to mount on. Some came unmounted and they don't want to stay upright on the egg create. I think I found that book on Amazon. I need to know what needs what in lighting, how much water flow they like by type, and I think I've got the feeding covered for the time being. Now to get them to grow faster. LOL Thanks!

Toilet tank???? Your wife must be a lot more forgiving than mine. I'm going to see if I can find some locally first. LFS close too early!