My 30 gallon saltwater tank will not cycle. Today is 7/31 and I started 6/18 which is about 6 weeks. I started it off with 35 pounds of Carib sea life rock, 10 pounds of Carib Sea Arag Alive sand, 20 pounds of not alive Carib Sea sand, a fish, fritz RPM salt, and Seachem Prime water conditioner. I tried to do fish in cycle I saw on online but the fish sadly died within a couple days and I removed it immediately. Everything seemed to be going good according to cycle charts and I had only done one water change during the cycle because the nitrites and nitrates were through the roof and I was dosing with prime according to the bottle. I added a rock from an established tank and started using Seachem Stability over a week and the nitrites started going down to 0.2 ppm and the ammonia was at 0 ppm I did about a 50% water change today and now I just tested a couple hours later and the nitrites shot back up to 1 ppm. I am using a Red Sea testing kit which should be accurate I just don’t know what to do at this point.
My salinity is at 1.026, Alkalinity 9 dKh, and pH 8.2. This has been consistent throughout the cycle.
My salinity is at 1.026, Alkalinity 9 dKh, and pH 8.2. This has been consistent throughout the cycle.