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Hey folks,
I started my cycle on 9/30 with Dr. Tims and seemingly misread the instructions during ammonia dosing, this resulted in a spike to 5ppm ammonia. Obviously this wasn't ideal but I didn't want to overcorrect and decided to let it play out. Over the course of the past few weeks the cycle seemed to be progressing nicely but as you can see, from 10/8 onward, ammonia is still dropping but Ni and Na are holding steady (keeping in mind these are color matched values so they are as close as I could estimate). The test kit I'm using is Red Sea basics.
Am I right in assuming my cycle has stalled, or should I continue waiting? If it has stalled I believe the correct action to take is a large (~25% - ~50%) water change to reduce Ni and Na and hopefully allow the beneficial bacteria to do its thang again. But I would like some verification on that as well.
I started my cycle on 9/30 with Dr. Tims and seemingly misread the instructions during ammonia dosing, this resulted in a spike to 5ppm ammonia. Obviously this wasn't ideal but I didn't want to overcorrect and decided to let it play out. Over the course of the past few weeks the cycle seemed to be progressing nicely but as you can see, from 10/8 onward, ammonia is still dropping but Ni and Na are holding steady (keeping in mind these are color matched values so they are as close as I could estimate). The test kit I'm using is Red Sea basics.
Am I right in assuming my cycle has stalled, or should I continue waiting? If it has stalled I believe the correct action to take is a large (~25% - ~50%) water change to reduce Ni and Na and hopefully allow the beneficial bacteria to do its thang again. But I would like some verification on that as well.