Hi all,
I have some questions regarding my cycle. I've read ton of them on the forums but I was hoping some of the more experienced reefers here could weigh in.
I am week 3 into my cycle with primarily using the Seneye and Ammonia Alert badge as well as salifert kits for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. Where i am, we use Chillers since its hot all year around, but temperature has been between 28-29degress celsius (82-84F).
Tank dimensions are 7x2x2 and sump is 6x1.5.x15 for a rough total volume of a round 300 gallons give or take.
I cycled with no sand, dry rock, 15kg of biohome with more rocks and plastic media (for emergency QT usage in the future)
I used Microbacter XLM as well as some Microbacter 7 from week 2 onwards.
I also dosed ammonia when my seneye recorded 0.02x ppm nh3 to 0.06, and it has now come down to 0.04 after about 2 days. (this is reflected in the seachem badge as well as the color grew ostensibly bluer). I did a 40% water change as the 0.06 ppm kept going up, and after the water change, it dropped to 0.04 before rising again to 0.05 to now going back down.
Here are some pics of my tank as well as my seneye dashboard.
I am not sure if I messed up the cycle by adding too much pure ammonia. I have no fish in the tank.
Any and all advise/interpretations would be helpful, thanks!
I have some questions regarding my cycle. I've read ton of them on the forums but I was hoping some of the more experienced reefers here could weigh in.
I am week 3 into my cycle with primarily using the Seneye and Ammonia Alert badge as well as salifert kits for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. Where i am, we use Chillers since its hot all year around, but temperature has been between 28-29degress celsius (82-84F).
Tank dimensions are 7x2x2 and sump is 6x1.5.x15 for a rough total volume of a round 300 gallons give or take.
I cycled with no sand, dry rock, 15kg of biohome with more rocks and plastic media (for emergency QT usage in the future)
I used Microbacter XLM as well as some Microbacter 7 from week 2 onwards.
I also dosed ammonia when my seneye recorded 0.02x ppm nh3 to 0.06, and it has now come down to 0.04 after about 2 days. (this is reflected in the seachem badge as well as the color grew ostensibly bluer). I did a 40% water change as the 0.06 ppm kept going up, and after the water change, it dropped to 0.04 before rising again to 0.05 to now going back down.
Here are some pics of my tank as well as my seneye dashboard.
I am not sure if I messed up the cycle by adding too much pure ammonia. I have no fish in the tank.
Any and all advise/interpretations would be helpful, thanks!