I have a red sea max nano 75L, I used old dried out live rock for the scape and sand substrate, my own RO water so zero tds.
Plan was to do a fishless cycle using seachem stability, the tank was started cycling on the 6th sept, it looked like it was cycling ok so on the 15th sept to check I dosed 2ppm ammonia, 24 hrs later ammonia was 2ppm and 0.5ppm nitrite so it looked like it wasn't cycled fully.
To give it a bump I decided to try fritz turbo start so dosed that along with ammonia on the 20th sept, by the 30th sept tank looked cycled with 0 ammonia & 0 nitrite so fast forward to yesterday I wanted to be sure it's cycled before adding fish, I dosed 2ppm ammonia and checked levels today, 1ppm ammonia & 1ppm nitrite. Another odd thing is that a week ago I did a big water change to bring the nitrate down from 40ppm to 5ppm, today the nitrate is 50ppm so not sure what's going on really, any thoughts?
Plan was to do a fishless cycle using seachem stability, the tank was started cycling on the 6th sept, it looked like it was cycling ok so on the 15th sept to check I dosed 2ppm ammonia, 24 hrs later ammonia was 2ppm and 0.5ppm nitrite so it looked like it wasn't cycled fully.
To give it a bump I decided to try fritz turbo start so dosed that along with ammonia on the 20th sept, by the 30th sept tank looked cycled with 0 ammonia & 0 nitrite so fast forward to yesterday I wanted to be sure it's cycled before adding fish, I dosed 2ppm ammonia and checked levels today, 1ppm ammonia & 1ppm nitrite. Another odd thing is that a week ago I did a big water change to bring the nitrate down from 40ppm to 5ppm, today the nitrate is 50ppm so not sure what's going on really, any thoughts?