Hi reefers,
Im on day 17 of my cycle, I did the fishless cycle using Dr Tims. It took 15 days to ammonia drop to 0, however thats not my concern. I've started noticing nitrite levels increase since day 3 and they have been steadily increasing and ammonia slowly decreasing as expected, but as of now my nitrites are very close to 8ppm(which is presumably high) and been around 8ppm for couple of days now, ammonia is 0 and nitrates is off the charts, but it could be giving a false reading due to nitrites being present. Therefore, do you think I should do a water change, or leave it until the nitrites decrease by itself below one and then perform water changes? There's also signs of diatoms on the sand and dry rock, which was probably triggered by the sunlight as it only appeared on one side of the tank which gets little sunlight.
Whats your thoughts on this?
Im on day 17 of my cycle, I did the fishless cycle using Dr Tims. It took 15 days to ammonia drop to 0, however thats not my concern. I've started noticing nitrite levels increase since day 3 and they have been steadily increasing and ammonia slowly decreasing as expected, but as of now my nitrites are very close to 8ppm(which is presumably high) and been around 8ppm for couple of days now, ammonia is 0 and nitrates is off the charts, but it could be giving a false reading due to nitrites being present. Therefore, do you think I should do a water change, or leave it until the nitrites decrease by itself below one and then perform water changes? There's also signs of diatoms on the sand and dry rock, which was probably triggered by the sunlight as it only appeared on one side of the tank which gets little sunlight.
Whats your thoughts on this?