The truth is our hobby is not in agreement on how cycles work yet, we don't have the testing that aligns everyone correctly for analysis so this leaves a lot of room for study/assumption/attributions as best everyone can do
I make my claims solely off logged patterns. I could be 100% wrong, these cycles may be dead broken- but we need to keep logging these instances of months-old tank+ red sea = ammonia alert
*I would consider your cycle broken if it kept free ammonia nh3 above .009 for days vs a few hours max, at the peak degradation point for that rotting snail meat. Your tests above indicate higher than .009 nh3 so by most standards, that's a broken cycle above. ( I picked that range bc 99% of all seneyes on running reef tanks will never show that value, it's upper end safety on that meter)
where I come in is the full tank picture: shows common surface area, already tested in digital setups to resolve any ammonia issues in 10 minutes. yet here, days on end no control
that smells like something is missing from the truth in my opinion, how is your whole tank not dead days ago> each day it runs, with no control over ammonia?
second question still being determined: do reef tanks permit hovering levels of ammonia, slightly unsafe levels, OR do they all drive down ammonia into the known safe ranges because we're all modeling the same setup basically with a rock stack + circulating waterwater? What if crashes are real, tangible, obvious events that need no tester to determine and they're not some teetering loss about to happen, that only a $12 test kit can warn us about
I figure if we link enough together folks who are good at reading patterns will figure out the actual mechanisms
I have never, not once in my life, seen an ammonia alert thread comprised of seneye owners and there must be about ten thousand of those now on reef tanks.
when we get spotty noncompliance issues occasionally off a seneye, we find issues with the meter/slide setup not the actual cycle.
even if Im wrong and your snail mass kept leaking massive ppm ammonia for weeks here, it's simply amazing the tank looks, runs, smells normal, carries life daily, and only a red sea meter says an alert is warranted. that's exactly what we study above
seneye owners never have trouble in the first week with the cycle, and zero cycle issues exist documented on seneye at month 3 in a nano reef. the conflict in these test kits + the resulting action from the owners is another pattern we study.
I make my claims solely off logged patterns. I could be 100% wrong, these cycles may be dead broken- but we need to keep logging these instances of months-old tank+ red sea = ammonia alert
*I would consider your cycle broken if it kept free ammonia nh3 above .009 for days vs a few hours max, at the peak degradation point for that rotting snail meat. Your tests above indicate higher than .009 nh3 so by most standards, that's a broken cycle above. ( I picked that range bc 99% of all seneyes on running reef tanks will never show that value, it's upper end safety on that meter)
where I come in is the full tank picture: shows common surface area, already tested in digital setups to resolve any ammonia issues in 10 minutes. yet here, days on end no control
that smells like something is missing from the truth in my opinion, how is your whole tank not dead days ago> each day it runs, with no control over ammonia?
second question still being determined: do reef tanks permit hovering levels of ammonia, slightly unsafe levels, OR do they all drive down ammonia into the known safe ranges because we're all modeling the same setup basically with a rock stack + circulating waterwater? What if crashes are real, tangible, obvious events that need no tester to determine and they're not some teetering loss about to happen, that only a $12 test kit can warn us about
I figure if we link enough together folks who are good at reading patterns will figure out the actual mechanisms
I have never, not once in my life, seen an ammonia alert thread comprised of seneye owners and there must be about ten thousand of those now on reef tanks.
when we get spotty noncompliance issues occasionally off a seneye, we find issues with the meter/slide setup not the actual cycle.
even if Im wrong and your snail mass kept leaking massive ppm ammonia for weeks here, it's simply amazing the tank looks, runs, smells normal, carries life daily, and only a red sea meter says an alert is warranted. that's exactly what we study above
seneye owners never have trouble in the first week with the cycle, and zero cycle issues exist documented on seneye at month 3 in a nano reef. the conflict in these test kits + the resulting action from the owners is another pattern we study.
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