Fritz is the brand of bacteria.
Yes. It was the turbo 900.
Your cycle is not done until ammonia and nitrite are both consistently zero.
Your tank is not cycled if you still have ammonia. I'm not sure why people still insist on subjecting fish to unsafe water when there are other safer, cheaper, easier ways to add ammonia to your tank. As you understand since you are asking about a water change, your clownfish are at risk of getting sick, or worse, with your ammonia on the rise. Please do water changes as needed to lower the ammonia, but understand that this will slow down the cycle since there will be less fuel for the bacteria to feed on.
Your tank is cycled when, after getting an ammonia result of 0, you can increase the ammonia to 2ppm and this is processed (test returns to 0) within 24 hours. But this just means it's cycled for a basic, very light bioload, and you still need to add any livestock slowly so the bacterial populations can keep up.
Some of the nitrate can be leached from dry rock too if it's not fully cured.
If you add Prime, remember that it does not claim to remove ammonia, only to TEMPORARILY change it to a non toxic form for up to 24 hours (and there is some serious debate as to whether or not it even does this). Any ammonia that is still in the tank after 24 hrs will again become toxic. And (assuming Prime does what it says it does), during that 24 hours, your ammonia tests will be useless due to the addition of Prime. I would only use Prime in an emergency, or to remove chlorine.
Clearly it didn't "skip cycle" if there's 0.5 ammonia!I’m going to break a rare I will never post here again rule. I’m doing it because the forum is slipping back to 1998 cycling despite the work logged here from 2014 onward: what’s being posted goes against every seneye reading posted from a reef tank with animals behaving completely normal and symptomless.
There is no harm here, post a tank pic for proof.
not a pic of the reported test levels. A pic of the aquarium so we can see animal positioning in the pic
The ammonia is controlled, not out of control, or doom would be reported and not normal fish behavior. nh4 is being reported from a non digital kit. Don’t complete cycle umpire calls off non digital nh4 readings in tanks beyond day three using three day bottle bac and all happy animals in clear water after days of feeding. That means cycled, uncycled is dead fish gray water. Require nh3 reports from seneye or defer to Dr. Reef’s bottle bac thread where seneye was used as a benchmark.
Dr. Reef’s bottle bac thread is one hundred pages long. It charts the bottle bac deposition rate for any brand we want to know.
the date for implantation here is day three, and before implantation the swirling bac were active in this most expensive bottle bac and handled nitrification in suspension. The fish behaved well the whole time because skipping a cycle with bottle bac is all cycles, all the time, unless we accept any stated reading as exactly correct without any challenge or application to logged pattern.
Fifteen pounds of ready rock runs any bioload the tank will ever see; the bottle bac was a waste but still its own carry capacity with no extra help, the live rock alone would skip cycle. Two fish can’t overpower fifteen pounds of live rock.
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Nope, nope nope.How to unstick any seemingly stuck cycle
non digital ammonia test kit readings (api, Red Sea, nyos, seachem badges) make you think you aren’t cycled when indeed you are if you owned a $200 expensive seneye meter, you’d never be doubting your cycle status. since .01% of the reefing population owns these, we need a way to help the...
That's proof and pattern you need to study because it's 30 pages of this exact cycle all applied with the same standard timing. How is our outcome rate looking for happy fish
How did the seneye reports go
The report above is nh4 not nh3
I can't state that any clearer
api reports nh4, after you convert api to nh3 and apply it to the chart above its over ten times less and the reading then matches the fish presentation quality we're about to see
This comes directly from Randy Holmes Farley...How to unstick any seemingly stuck cycle
non digital ammonia test kit readings (api, Red Sea, nyos, seachem badges) make you think you aren’t cycled when indeed you are if you owned a $200 expensive seneye meter, you’d never be doubting your cycle status. since .01% of the reefing population owns these, we need a way to help the...
That's proof and pattern to study because it's 30 pages of this exact cycle all applied with the same standard timing. How is our outcome rate looking for happy fish
I don't believe it's possible to claim this cycle here is unlike all those we closed with an exact start date. This is an inspectable pattern, I'll add this thread to page 31 when the pics are posted as we already have the known ammonia drop date in question and pointed out.
How did the spot checked seneye reports go in our thread for claims made?
The report above is nh4 not nh3
I can't state that any clearer
api reports nh4, after you convert api to nh3 and apply it to the chart above its over ten times less and the reading then matches the fish presentation quality we're about to see when a pic is posted
You guys are using the literal opposite of updated cycling science and in that leap millions of safe fish-in cycles were falsely discounted as ammonia burns.
They were disease vector risks; not ammonia risks.
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I had to go into work but as soon as I get home in the morning I will post a pic.@dieselgoose
please will you post a simple pic of your whole tank
from that pic we can see if it looks like an animal with no kidney function, or if it looks like one heck of a predictably normal happy animal
the chief signal of old cycling science is when someone tries to sell a peer on symptomless ammonia poisoning in sensitive respiring creatures.
just one pic ‘ll be fine. The pic is about to line up with Randy’s info above for the non toxic range, and so would any seneye reading. All the hoopla comes from non seneye owners…seneye owners just sit back and smile during ammonia burn debates.
Zombie, you’re trying to sell us on dangerous ammonia levels as stated by an nh4 relay on a non digital kit among healthy fish and clean water and days of feed and plenty of surface area (every reef tank cycle)
it’s easy to write nope x3 staring at 150 completed cycles with happy fish and seneye passed inspections, any entrant can be sent a message for confirmation.
why is it I’m not seeing an equal cycle thread using other peoples outcomes as a comparison post? On what basis can someone disagree with my patterns without their own linked up clearly for inspection?
the post I’m making here is for the readers studying this thread; I would never expect an adherent of old cycling science to agree with me until they own a seneye. I expect heels dug in, and relays of fear that will never match the actual tank picture. For pages
