@taricha
I've found a new aspect of cycling I wish you'd test one day with the digital setup you have for ammonia
=do reef tanks store ammonia in the sandbed or in the rocks, where it can be liberated deadly upon disturbance of the substrates (popular opinion says yes)
I predict = no they don't its a metabolic compound exuded by animal cells or exceptional pockets of decay/protein digestion from bacteria/ and is instantly used up in proximity of production by plants or other life forms yielding none to kill fish or life when funky sandbeds are disturbed. the killer is something other than ammonia is my bet.
reef tanks don't store ammonia, cells emit it live-time and there's no source hiding in a 3 month old tank setup to liberate it from the substrate.
I haven't seen any seneye posts tied to people disturbing their tank to check for nh3 spikes
I predict ammonia is constantly blamed for things it didn't do in the reef tank.
add substrate-caused cycle stalls to the list of things we're never going to uncover without digital testing.
I've found a new aspect of cycling I wish you'd test one day with the digital setup you have for ammonia
=do reef tanks store ammonia in the sandbed or in the rocks, where it can be liberated deadly upon disturbance of the substrates (popular opinion says yes)
I predict = no they don't its a metabolic compound exuded by animal cells or exceptional pockets of decay/protein digestion from bacteria/ and is instantly used up in proximity of production by plants or other life forms yielding none to kill fish or life when funky sandbeds are disturbed. the killer is something other than ammonia is my bet.
reef tanks don't store ammonia, cells emit it live-time and there's no source hiding in a 3 month old tank setup to liberate it from the substrate.
I haven't seen any seneye posts tied to people disturbing their tank to check for nh3 spikes
I predict ammonia is constantly blamed for things it didn't do in the reef tank.
add substrate-caused cycle stalls to the list of things we're never going to uncover without digital testing.