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[greyhunter]

Cycling question

Hi everyone, I’m currently cycling my first tank. And ammonia did not drop one single bit
And i have had these test results for 7 days now. I’m on day 12 of cycling, is it normal that my results are not changing in this stage?

 

[greyhunter]

Cycling question

Hi everyone, I’m currently cycling my first tank. And ammonia did not drop one single bit
And i have had these test results for 7 days now. I’m on day 12 of cycling, is it normal that my results are not changing in this stage?

Extra info: I added ammonia on Augustus the 28 to 1.5/2 ppm i added it a bit later then the tank got setup because i got it in late. I used aquaforest dry rock with aquaforest Bio sand. I add aquaforest BIOs daily butt a bacterial source. i use salifert test kits because i heard those were the best ones except for hanna checkers. But those were a bit to expensive for now. Later down the line I’ll definitely grab some. My salinity is at 1.025 tested with a calibrated refractometer. I used rodi water that i made myself that read 0 tds. I added tropic marine pro reef salt

 

[landlubber]

I did my cycle the old fashioned way and it took 5 weeks.
Good advice for the rest of your reefing career and you'll see this a million times from here on.... nothing good happens fast in reefing.
enjoy the ride.

 

[ScottJ]

Not familiar with your ammonia kit, but do you divide by 10 reading from the side like your nitrate test? If so, your ammonia is like 0.15 or less. Nitrate looks to be detectable.

 

[fishywishy]

It’s normal. It took me a few weeks last time I cycled a tank.