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About 100 gallons. There's dosing chart on the bottleWhat size tank?
Nice. As long as you follow you will be good.About 100 gallons. There's dosing chart on the bottle
Is the starfish still alive here
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Hi all, just a heads up, I’ve done water changes and added bacteria, my levels on all ammonia nitrites and nitrates are through the roof..... suggestions? Just want to know if that’s normal or if I have major problems. I know I added too much too soon and lesson has been learntNice. As long as you follow you will be good.
You have a very, very simple cycle going here it's not misbehaving, mis reading and test issues are happening and your cycle is done. Proving that takes a few posts is that starfish still alive is first in a series of proofs not using false test readings. Three more proofs are coming after linkia verif
I guarantee your tank is cycled we have covered your testing issue page one here
The microbiology of reef tank cycling.
You can skip your cycle. Ive been reefing online for twenty years and have never waited one second for a tank to cycle, because I buy rocks that are already cycled and move them home. Here's two: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/octo-high-end-sps-skip-cycle-build.713256/...www.reef2reef.com
Now that nitrite and nitrate are removed from your tank assessment, we focus only on ammonia and number of days the tank has had water to call the cycle done. The bac bloom w fade if we quit dosing items and wait, also, must consider if unrinsed sand is causing the bloom it's not always a cycle issue
Starfish is not alive. My water is clear, have diatoms and algae building. My current status is that all ammonia nitrites and nitrates are showing very high.You have a very, very simple cycle going here it's not misbehaving, mis reading and test issues are happening and your cycle is done. Proving that takes a few posts is that starfish still alive is first in a series of proofs not using false test readings. Three more proofs are coming after linkia verif
No linkia can survive the slightest sustained free ammonia, you never had any if he's alive per the thread. Biological proofs vs API and badge tests.
I guarantee your tank is cycled we have covered your testing issue page one here
The microbiology of reef tank cycling.
You can skip your cycle. Ive been reefing online for twenty years and have never waited one second for a tank to cycle, because I buy rocks that are already cycled and move them home. Here's two: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/octo-high-end-sps-skip-cycle-build.713256/...www.reef2reef.com
Now that nitrite and nitrate are removed from your tank assessment, we focus only on ammonia and number of days the tank has had water to call the cycle done. The bac bloom w fade if we quit dosing items and wait, also, must consider if unrinsed sand is causing the bloom it's not always a cycle issue
Yes I used prime. So the other morning my tank looks like thisIf he's dead then a spike did occur and that has passed bc ammonia cannot hold a constant level after this much time underwater. Presence of nitrate at all indicates bacteria too
Was any water conditioner like Prime used in the prep or in response to test levels here
For sure you have misreads like our examples. The fact you have now growths in the system further indicates being ready, as nitrifying bacteria are always deposited and built up long before plants and secondary colonial organisms can grow. If your tank was mine I would simply change out water and begin with light coral loading and be removing those growths in maintenance so they don't take over, you are past cycling and into tank cleaning phase to stop uglies now
If you can't change all the water then change what you can, wait until it clears up, then begin lightly. Post an updated pic from today when lights come on
The only test that matters now is ammonia but even that misreads unless you are using digital seneye monitor, so we can assess ammonia without the cheap test no prob.
I will take pictures tomorrow morningYes I used prime. So the other morning my tank looks like this
there are still two hermit crabs live and kicking. Forgot they were in there, they blend in well as the have algae on their shellsWhen you say deal with algae? What do you mean? Vac sand, clean glass and scrape rock,??
How does prime affect readings? Especially all that high? Just don’t wanna out stuff in for it all to die
so what sort of corals should I be looking at? Can I add some cuc too or just corals first?The old information about testing for nitrate nitrite and ammonia simply doesn’t account for adulterants nor misreads, so we have to quit using that way if we want consistency. Just like sandbeds, what was the rule in the nineties vs now about sandbeds? (Keeping detritus vs cleaning it out / no sandbed option setups)
Cycling evolved too but nobody made the updated articles lol we’re still on 1978 cycling advice, using faulty gear, so it rarely works accurately.
to make sense of the cycle here we can apply visual biology cycling 2019 using known submersion time frames for substrate + benthic life presence, which is reliable and free and observes natural order of operations from nature. Bacteria are the first to come, last to go, and toughest communal organisms we keep
Cycles never stall out, that’s a notion invented solely by api testing. The only factor needed to know if a set of rocks are cycled is how long they’ve been underwater. If we must test, ammonia is all that matters, and how you wield that test kit matters...they have to be calibrated for true zero before a non digital ammonia tester can be used accurately among ten people for example