10g Nano - High Nitrites(NO2) ~5ppm+, No ammonia & minimal Nitrates(NO3) ~<6ppm
Hey fellow reefers, I've very new to aquarium hobby and I have a (maybe stupid) cycling question. I've had my tank cycling for past 3.5 weeks and now my Nitrites(NO2) are extremely high(full purple) for past 1 week. I have very minimal to low algae growth. Equipment used. - Dry rocks and Dry...
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This hobby is absolutely filled with people who think their cycle has stalled
MACNA talks said cycles stall, but that’s in a warehouse sized room of 500 retail tanks selling stuff who had no trouble not stalling, and attaining the start date on time for the convention. All 500
I want to know why we have been told that cycles stall in reefing, they do not.
as we proceed debating about whether cycles can stall, ask yourself if it’s possible I have 100 of these examples where they did not stall to show patterns with.
we use bottle bac once, to start a dry rock tank only. We do not keep chasing numbers by repurchasing it. Live rock systems do not need boosting with bottle bac, you can tell if a rock is cycled when living things had time to attach to it.
nitrite will never factor in a cycle anymore than argon factors into a cycle.
the bacteria that regulate nitrite and twenty other compounds do take weeks to build, but only ammonia control matters in cycling.
all google cycle charts for cycling come from books fifty years back that don’t permit ammonia behaving any other way than shown, you have a time axis on every cycling chart that tells your parameters as a cross reference. Being told to input 2 ppm ammonia using testers that may input as high as eight while reading as two is why all forum cycling seems to vary, yet irl MACNA all starts on the same date.
when I see people making purchases out of a perceived consequence that isn’t real, I get science mad.
time to balance the scales
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