Ammonia not going up?

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So I just got 30 pounds of kp live rock in water for my 55 gallon and on kp’s website it says that the first week you will have to change the water every day to keep the ammonia down but I added all the rock to my tank in the ammonia never went up, the rock what delayed for 24 hours so does this have something to do with it?
 

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If the everything looks good for the rest of the week can I add fish?

Id personally want to test the ability to detoxify ammonia first. I definitely would not add more than 1 hardy fish.
 
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Id personally want to test the ability to detoxify ammonia first. I definitely would not add more than 1 hardy fish.
When can I start getting more than one at a time?

as you can see from the picture the rock looks pretty ugly right now because a lot of the cyano is gone, will the cyano and bacteria that died grow back and if so how long will it take?

Sorry about all the questions I’ve never had live rock before
 
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Id personally want to test the ability to detoxify ammonia first. I definitely would not add more than 1 hardy fish.
I have some ammonia in a bottle, could I use that to test it’s ability to detoxify ammonia?
 
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I have some ammonia in a bottle, could I use that to test it’s ability to detoxify ammonia?

Yes. I'd boost the ammonia to 2 ppm and track its decline.
 
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