So I have a new 10 gallon saltwater tank being cycled that’s been running for about 2.5 weeks. Live rock was put in at set up that was taken directly from an already established tank and a thawed shrimp was put in to jump start the ammonia cycle. I have been regularly water testing to keep up with where it’s at in the cycle and saw a big spike in ammonia and then it leveled itself out with no detectable change in nitrite or nitrate. I guess my question is if there wasn’t enough ammonia present to get the process going quickly or could the live rock have produced enough bacteria to balance and cycle my tank already?
TIA
TIA