So I am on day six of cycling my 120 gallon glass Cages reef. A bit of background. I haven’t actually had to cycle a reef in twenty years so this dry rock bacteria no fish cycling stuff is totally new to me.
I started curing a garbage can of Marco rocks with bacteria about six months ago. That got added to the tank along with live sand about two weeks ago.Water added. SG reads 1.025. Temp raised to 82 to speed the process up.
Dr. Tim’s added six days ago. Procedure of adding ammonium chloride followed twice.
Brightwell Nitrate block seeded and added to sump four days ago. Ammonia was around 4 ppm after first dose. Went up to 7 or 8 ppm after second dose. Still sitting there.
Am I reading this wrong. Is the test kit maybe wonky. I thought with using seeded dry rock it would maybe speed up cycling a bit. Am I just too impatient? Bad bacteria ? It was two separate bottles for about 1.5 the needed dose.
Help please! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I started curing a garbage can of Marco rocks with bacteria about six months ago. That got added to the tank along with live sand about two weeks ago.Water added. SG reads 1.025. Temp raised to 82 to speed the process up.
Dr. Tim’s added six days ago. Procedure of adding ammonium chloride followed twice.
Brightwell Nitrate block seeded and added to sump four days ago. Ammonia was around 4 ppm after first dose. Went up to 7 or 8 ppm after second dose. Still sitting there.
Am I reading this wrong. Is the test kit maybe wonky. I thought with using seeded dry rock it would maybe speed up cycling a bit. Am I just too impatient? Bad bacteria ? It was two separate bottles for about 1.5 the needed dose.
Help please! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.