I recently bought a complete Waterbox 40.2 setup that had been up and running for the last 2 years with live rock, fish, snails, shrimps and soft corals. The live stock was sold around 2-3 months prior to me buying the up and running setup but some zoas and ricordea were left attached to the live rock that had spread off the frag plugs. When I got back home with all the live rock, sand and about 60% of the water and set the tank back up and let it all settle in with no lights on for the first couple days I then did a test on the water and came back with the following results,
I then rinsed the test tubes and repeated the same test and got the same results. The API saltwater master test kit is new and doesn’t expire till 2027 so I doubt that’s faulty 
. Question is am I cycled already since I broke down and reset up an existing established tank? There’s pods crawling around on the rocks and on the sand bed and I saw a few asterina in the tank as well. Zoas and ricordea are open and look good under blues but why is everything testing at 0ppm? There is a soot like matter on top of the sand bed that I’m going to gently vacuum off once I get the water change vacuum from Amazon today since it clouds up the tank if disturbed. I turned on just the white light on my hydra 32 so y’all could see in the tank. Any help will and would be greatly appreciated!!
| High Range pH | 7.8 - 8.0 |
| Ammonia | 0ppm |
| Nitrite | 0ppm |
| Nitrate | 0ppm |
I then rinsed the test tubes and repeated the same test and got the same results. The API saltwater master test kit is new and doesn’t expire till 2027 so I doubt that’s faulty
. Question is am I cycled already since I broke down and reset up an existing established tank? There’s pods crawling around on the rocks and on the sand bed and I saw a few asterina in the tank as well. Zoas and ricordea are open and look good under blues but why is everything testing at 0ppm? There is a soot like matter on top of the sand bed that I’m going to gently vacuum off once I get the water change vacuum from Amazon today since it clouds up the tank if disturbed. I turned on just the white light on my hydra 32 so y’all could see in the tank. Any help will and would be greatly appreciated!!
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