Is this a complete cycle?

Gravis · 04/02/2016, 06:47 AM

Hey guys! my tank have been up for about 3 weeks. and the testing results looks like this

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water parameters by kristian Gravvold, on Flickr[/IMG]

Pleas help. im waiting on a amonia spike but it never seems to come.

boojumsnark25 · 04/02/2016, 01:53 PM

Are you dosing ammonia to .25 every day?

Gravis · 04/04/2016, 05:26 PM

I haven't dosed anything other than phantom feeding som mysis and pellets. My amonia stays stable at 0,25. Don't understand. So I was hoping if I added a fish like a salarias may be my amonia would rise and no2 and 3 bacteria would develop as we go along. The parameters looks stable?

Gravis · 04/04/2016, 05:26 PM

BTW I dose zeobak 2 times a week

jminick2 · 04/04/2016, 06:10 PM

I wouldn't add a fish, Did you use all live rock and live sand?

anthonys51 · 04/04/2016, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jminick2

I wouldn't add a fish, Did you use all live rock and live sand?

dont add fish while ammonia is still present

thegrun · 04/04/2016, 07:06 PM

Did you start with live rock or dry rock. If it was dry, I don't think the cycle has even started, there just hasn't been enough decay to build up the ammonia levels. If it was live it may have had enough bacteria on it already to prevent a cycle. I would dose the tank with enough pure ammonia (without surfactants) to raise the ammonia to 2ppm. Once that ammonia and subsequent nitrites drop to zero the cycle is complete. What test kit are you using? If it is an API the ammonia readings are probably zero not 0.25, their test kits routinely show 0.25 when no ammonia is present.

Gravis · 04/04/2016, 07:32 PM

Hi! I've used live rock and live sand. Using salifert test kit. I have fed this tank more over the last three weeks, than I have my stocked 90 gallon the last 3 months. Don't seem to change the amonia anything.

Gravis · 04/04/2016, 07:33 PM

Any ideas if the salifert shows poorly on 0.00

thegrun · 04/04/2016, 09:34 PM

Salifert has never had the false positive from my experience with them.

04/02/2016, 06:47 AM	#1
Gravis Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 51	Is this a complete cycle? Hey guys! my tank have been up for about 3 weeks. and the testing results looks like this [IMG]water parameters by kristian Gravvold, on Flickr[/IMG] Pleas help. im waiting on a amonia spike but it never seems to come.

04/02/2016, 01:53 PM	#2
boojumsnark25 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 67	Are you dosing ammonia to .25 every day?

04/04/2016, 05:26 PM	#3
Gravis Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 51	I haven't dosed anything other than phantom feeding som mysis and pellets. My amonia stays stable at 0,25. Don't understand. So I was hoping if I added a fish like a salarias may be my amonia would rise and no2 and 3 bacteria would develop as we go along. The parameters looks stable?

04/04/2016, 06:10 PM	#5
jminick2 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 1,226	I wouldn't add a fish, Did you use all live rock and live sand?

04/04/2016, 07:06 PM	#7
thegrun Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Garden Grove, Ca Posts: 17,023	Did you start with live rock or dry rock. If it was dry, I don't think the cycle has even started, there just hasn't been enough decay to build up the ammonia levels. If it was live it may have had enough bacteria on it already to prevent a cycle. I would dose the tank with enough pure ammonia (without surfactants) to raise the ammonia to 2ppm. Once that ammonia and subsequent nitrites drop to zero the cycle is complete. What test kit are you using? If it is an API the ammonia readings are probably zero not 0.25, their test kits routinely show 0.25 when no ammonia is present.

04/04/2016, 07:32 PM	#8
Gravis Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 51	Hi! I've used live rock and live sand. Using salifert test kit. I have fed this tank more over the last three weeks, than I have my stocked 90 gallon the last 3 months. Don't seem to change the amonia anything.

04/04/2016, 07:33 PM	#9
Gravis Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 51	Any ideas if the salifert shows poorly on 0.00

04/04/2016, 09:34 PM	#10
thegrun Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Garden Grove, Ca Posts: 17,023	Salifert has never had the false positive from my experience with them.