Neon wow you packed a lot of observation into this experiment. I thank you heartily and can’t wait for updates ! I did not know that nitrite data was available from those sources I truly thought only api had nitrite data, someone mentioned Red Sea did too the other day. The ability to compare multiple kits on one sample is rare rare rare
what Im finding fascinating is that with merely water and surface area added, the trend towards controlling ammonia really does start without all the boosters we once thought were required. Those rascals who wrote cycling charts, meant for freshwater, may have been writing for us too the whole time. I plan to read up soon / search out the origins of the common cycling chart we have seen in books and in online posts am mainly curious how far that knowledge goes back.
@DSC reef
any new findings we can consider?
You had laugh emojis on page one, but we didn't see any follow up work.
based on observations here it seems the only time ammonia will fail to control in a post cycle reef is when something kills all the fish at once. The initial cause of that event won’t be free ammonia, nh3 spikes will follow the event that took several fish at once.
Here is another false alert post we cleared using updated cycling science
what Im finding fascinating is that with merely water and surface area added, the trend towards controlling ammonia really does start without all the boosters we once thought were required. Those rascals who wrote cycling charts, meant for freshwater, may have been writing for us too the whole time. I plan to read up soon / search out the origins of the common cycling chart we have seen in books and in online posts am mainly curious how far that knowledge goes back.
@DSC reef
any new findings we can consider?
You had laugh emojis on page one, but we didn't see any follow up work.
based on observations here it seems the only time ammonia will fail to control in a post cycle reef is when something kills all the fish at once. The initial cause of that event won’t be free ammonia, nh3 spikes will follow the event that took several fish at once.
Here is another false alert post we cleared using updated cycling science
EMERGENCY - Ammonia Spike please help!
So I have been in the hobby for about a month and a half now and I’ve been trying to cycle my 29 gal ever since. I have hit 0 ppm ammonia a couple weeks into the cycle and reaching a nitrite reading of 1 ppm at the same time ammonia hit 0. Couple day after I added Dr. Tim’s Eco balance which I...
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