How to Avoid the Ugly Stage?

[Indiana Jones]

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[Blue Cheese]

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I used love rock from Florida shipped wet that I picked up from the airport,I let them cycle in a bin in my barn to remove pests for 76 days,kept parameters up and used dry sand,I put the rock in the new tank immediately added pods and dosed Phyto and microbactor clean,I have maybe 10 snails total a fighting conch and an urchin,haven’t changed the water yet
240 gallon