30 gallon first reef build

Hi there

so on christmas i received a 30 gallon tank and 2 TMC aqua beam aquaray lights, white and blue and a fluval canister filter

I have now setup the tank with live sand 10 pounds of dry rock, will be adding another 20 next week and the water.

My test so far read

ammonia 0.50 ppm
pH 8.0
nitrate 0ppm
nitrite 1.0 ppm

Should i wait until both ammonia and nitrite are at zero before i begin adding livestock

I will be posting on this thrad after every update and any tips would be appreciated because it is my first reef tank thanks

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