Okay, so this happened overnight.
I have a 40 gal tank that is currently fishless cycling. I had been cycling for about 3 weeks, but I had to mostly empty my tank due to really high nitrates and the tank was not level (rookie mistakes). It has restarted the cycle about a week ago.
There's no noticable algae or cyanobacteria, or anything yet. I didn't use live rock.
My parameters (as of a week ago) are:
Ammonia: 1.2 ppm
Nitrite: .05 ppm
Nitrate: 10 ppm
pH: 8.2
Alk: 8 dkh
Ca: 400
Mg: 1330
Salinity: 1.026
Water temp is 82 while it cycles.
The only thing I've added was ammonia to start the cycle and bacteria. My best guess is I have an overgrowth of a pink bacteria.
I have a 40 gal tank that is currently fishless cycling. I had been cycling for about 3 weeks, but I had to mostly empty my tank due to really high nitrates and the tank was not level (rookie mistakes). It has restarted the cycle about a week ago.
There's no noticable algae or cyanobacteria, or anything yet. I didn't use live rock.
My parameters (as of a week ago) are:
Ammonia: 1.2 ppm
Nitrite: .05 ppm
Nitrate: 10 ppm
pH: 8.2
Alk: 8 dkh
Ca: 400
Mg: 1330
Salinity: 1.026
Water temp is 82 while it cycles.
The only thing I've added was ammonia to start the cycle and bacteria. My best guess is I have an overgrowth of a pink bacteria.