Tank cycling?

rwoten · 08/05/2012, 08:50 PM

Hi everyone. I have been keeping my first saltwater tank for about a year now. I just converted my freshwater tank over to a saltwater. it has been about a week and i know it usually takes longer to cycle, however, with the use of my live rock and doing small water changes on my first, well established tank, and taking the water from that one and putting into my 29 gal, newly converted. I have one false gramma, pseudogramm, in there and i seen an ammonia spike up to 1ppm then a nitrite of about 20 and no all levels read 0. Am i completely cycled already? Thanks for your input/answers!!!!

Waddleboy · 08/05/2012, 09:31 PM

Water barely caries any useful bacteria but putting live rock in from the established into the 29 could have helped jump start the cycle. If you are reading nitrite you still technically have a cycle going on, but its getting there

08/05/2012, 08:50 PM	#1
rwoten Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: yuba city Posts: 8	Tank cycling? Hi everyone. I have been keeping my first saltwater tank for about a year now. I just converted my freshwater tank over to a saltwater. it has been about a week and i know it usually takes longer to cycle, however, with the use of my live rock and doing small water changes on my first, well established tank, and taking the water from that one and putting into my 29 gal, newly converted. I have one false gramma, pseudogramm, in there and i seen an ammonia spike up to 1ppm then a nitrite of about 20 and no all levels read 0. Am i completely cycled already? Thanks for your input/answers!!!!

08/05/2012, 09:31 PM	#2
Waddleboy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: NJ Posts: 766	Water barely caries any useful bacteria but putting live rock in from the established into the 29 could have helped jump start the cycle. If you are reading nitrite you still technically have a cycle going on, but its getting there