Good instructions but one teaspoon of ammonia powder was too much at 8ppm. Replaced 1/2 the water but it still read 8ppm. must have been off the chart 1st time, so I drained another 15 gallons and topped off again with fresh. This got the ammonia to read 4ppm. Goal is 2-4ppm so I'm going with it.
Of course, adding in fresh water skyrocketed the PH back to 8.4. Been slowly adding ph-down all day and last reading was 7.4. Going to let it sit for a day and see what everything reads before adding the maxicrop and cycling bacteria. Also added De-Clor. Guy at the fish store said that there is a lot of chloramine in our water that does not evaporate like chlorine. He also said that the city is adding more chloramine than normal this month. I am starting to think I should have used an alternate water source. Going to look into that.
Added some radish and spinach seeds. I like these little spongy plugs in the seed starters. I tried sowing directly into the medium but that didn't seem wise. I can move these plugs around until the roots start popping out the bottom.
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