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Hey Guys,
I've been cycling my 15 gallon tank now for just over two weeks now. I starting with dry rock and sand and decided to try using red seas reef mature kit to speed up the cycle. I added the ammonia source and the bacterial supplement at the specified intervals. I also added a small piece of live rock from my LFS to seed the tank. The issue is my ammonia and nitrite were elevated for almost two weeks with no noticeable decrease, NH3 ~ 2ppm and NO2 >1ppm and NO3 ~30ppm. I did ~60% water change as I suspected my nitrite could have been too high. After the water change the NH3, NO2 and NO3 are now sitting around 0.2ppm, 0.5ppm and 5ppm respectively but have not changed over the past few days.
I suspect I'm being impatient but also find it unusual that the ammonia did not start to decrease over the first two weeks and is not decreasing now. I'm using Red Sea test kits and there is also diatom and green algae growth in the tank.
Thanks in advance.
I've been cycling my 15 gallon tank now for just over two weeks now. I starting with dry rock and sand and decided to try using red seas reef mature kit to speed up the cycle. I added the ammonia source and the bacterial supplement at the specified intervals. I also added a small piece of live rock from my LFS to seed the tank. The issue is my ammonia and nitrite were elevated for almost two weeks with no noticeable decrease, NH3 ~ 2ppm and NO2 >1ppm and NO3 ~30ppm. I did ~60% water change as I suspected my nitrite could have been too high. After the water change the NH3, NO2 and NO3 are now sitting around 0.2ppm, 0.5ppm and 5ppm respectively but have not changed over the past few days.
I suspect I'm being impatient but also find it unusual that the ammonia did not start to decrease over the first two weeks and is not decreasing now. I'm using Red Sea test kits and there is also diatom and green algae growth in the tank.
Thanks in advance.