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Here is the nitrate reading, looks like its registering 0, I did use Fritz turbo start 900 in the tank 10 days agoAhhh good ole API. Better to just ask if you have nitrate present and if a cycling product was used?
Did you add an ammonia source or only the fritz turbo?Here is the nitrate reading, looks like its registering 0, I did use Fritz turbo start 900 in the tank 10 days ago
Only the fritz, after doing some digging it seems I should have added an ammonia source, the LFS where I got the tank just said to run the Fritz nothing regarding an ammonia source. I guess would the next steps be to add an ammonia source and see if it gets back to 0?Did you add an ammonia source or only the fritz turbo?
Nope. The fritz has done its thing. Get a fish or 2 and don't feed like crazy while your bacteria builds up.Only the fritz, after doing some digging it seems I should have added an ammonia source, the LFS where I got the tank just said to run the Fritz nothing regarding an ammonia source. I guess would the next steps be to add an ammonia source and see if it gets back to 0?
Sorry what, if there was never any ammonia, the bacteria had nothing to eat, nothing cycled.Nope. The fritz has done its thing. Get a fish or 2 and don't feed like crazy while your bacteria builds up.
Bacteria doesn't just die like that. If it makes you feel better you can go out and buy an ammonia source. I'm just letting you know that it shouldn't be necessary.Sorry what, if there was never any ammonia, the bacteria had nothing to eat, nothing cycled.
I used caribsea ocean direct live sand in the tank.Something worth noting would be if you used Live sand or not. I've seen people (myself included) go over board with the ammonium (just adding the recommend amount) because the live sand has an ammonia source.
Okay. I haven't used that one specifically, but most companies are putting some type of food source for the bacteria in the live sand. With that, it wouldn't be necessary to add any ammonia or ammonium based product to the tank. API NH3 is a tough one to work with, Folks have misleading results all the time. Waiting is the hardest part.I used caribsea ocean direct live sand in the tank.
Got it, yea its tough to read, im pretty patient and want to do it right the first time so waiting really isn't too bad for me. I appreciate the input!Okay. I haven't used that one specifically, but most companies are putting some type of food source for the bacteria in the live sand. With that, it wouldn't be necessary to add any ammonia or ammonium based product to the tank. API NH3 is a tough one to work with, Folks have misleading results all the time. Waiting is the hardest part.
So if I am understanding this correctly, I shouldn't need to add anything and introducing livestock should be an ok move? Or should I introduce more ammonia to see what happens with that? I added the fritz and only the fritz and let it do its thing, temp, salinity, and nitrates are all good.There is nothing antibiotic about a reef tank, even a brand new one. If we take water bacteria concentrated into water in the package bottle, then input it into a larger heated body of water, nothing happens to the bacteria that were adapted to living in water
They weren’t going to starve in the bottle for up to a year or more, and that’s a sealed and sterile monoculture package. A reef tank is opposite: open topped and full of contaminants and trade feed sources.
The tank becomes like a giant bottle of fritz. Natural contamination feed is too slow to feed much activity only ten days in, but some degree of natural food is always present in any home aquarium setting and Fritz doesn’t fail to carry bioload when it’s added to a fritz cycle. If the op adds some fish now, they’ll be fine which is the outcome of all searchable fish-in cycles I’ve ever seen in reefing. Waiting till day ten to test load the bac isn’t a problem. If it was dosed into the tank then not fed for eight hundred days and then load tested, it’ll still pass and in fact the entire system will be fully cycled like a well-fed cycle because that much wait time plus contamination input is fully fed many times over.
If you added fritz turbo start you are safe to add fish right away - as in at the very same time.So if I am understanding this correctly, I shouldn't need to add anything and introducing livestock should be an ok move? Or should I introduce more ammonia to see what happens with that? I added the fritz and only the fritz and let it do its thing, temp, salinity, and nitrates are all good.