Wanted to get your feedback on this.

As you all probably know, I just set up a new (to me) 150g. To seed the cycle, I've used between 5 & 10 pounds of gravel (which I put underr my silica sand) directly from my 55g Discus tank. I also have several pieces of driftwood, rocks, two heaters, a seeded Whisper 60, and a seeded Magnum 350 in there. Also on my initial fill, I used 32 gallons of the 55g Discus tank water.

I've been testing everything but hardness about every 12 hours. My first test showed a trace .25 of amonia. Everything else was zeros. The next mornining the ammonia was also at zero.

I added some corys and juvenile BN just to see if it moved a bit. Everything is still testing zero. Almost three days in with fish living, eating and - well, making waste.

My question is - based on your experience - is my spike yet to come? Or since I used so much seeded material was my small trace initially my spike?

How would you proceed in monitoring the water and in adding more fish?

As you have added aged water and seeded filters (i would have recomended you did this anyway) i think you will find you should have very little in the way of problems, but i would introduce the rest of the fish slowly so as not to overload the system, also i would continue to moniter the water on a daly basis, (cheeper than replacing any fish) how long have you got before you have to strip the other tank down ?

I've done what you did, Gary--except I didn't use transplanted tank water, and I found the same things. Definately add fish slowly.

Well depending on your water readings, to me would depend on when you add more fish, personaly i would take my time, as i would not want to risk my stock. If the water params are showing stabble then i would add a fish every couple of days. Just my thoughts