Need expert advise....i have been cycling my tank for 1 month, check NH3 (zero), NO2 (Zero), NO3 (10ppm), PH (8.4), KH (170), salinity (1.023) then start adding a pair of clown, 1 wk later 1 majestic and 1 week later 1 salfin. I only use DSB but no LIVE ROCK. I did put some dead white colour coral. I am using a relatively good skimmer. Everything seems alrite but last sun a LFS owner told me it is not possible to keep marine fish this way. Without Live Rock fish will guarantee to die within 3 mth. He claim the reason my NH3, NO2 and NO3 so low is becos they have never bloom before.....as such it will always maintain so low.
Can i check with anyone is it true?? Newly set up water really need liverock or else BB will never bloom? You mean the marine fishes that is sold in LFS will die if they are not sold after awhile??