I responded to someone who said they completed a cycle in 36 hours... I said , not with 8ppm ammonia.Sorry I misunderstood. If 8ppm won’t kill bacteria then why is it too high other than it would take longer to complete cycle.
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I responded to someone who said they completed a cycle in 36 hours... I said , not with 8ppm ammonia.Sorry I misunderstood. If 8ppm won’t kill bacteria then why is it too high other than it would take longer to complete cycle.
So could I dose ammonia to make up nitrate? I dose kno3 and have no need to stop doing that when I have a nitrate deficiency. It works."1 ppm ammonia --> 2.7 ppm nitrite --> 3.6 ppm nitrate."
https://forums.reefcentral.com/threads/ammonia-is-converted-to-how-much-nitrite-and-nitrate.213717/
Therefore 80ppm nitrate is not possible from 8ppm ammonia. What are you using to test?
I have never seen nitrates in the first three days of an initial cycle. FWIW - If you only dose ammonia or fish food / poop from another tank etc,. with nothing else - no bottled bacteria etc,. the nitrogen cycle is finished quicker and the test results seem more accurate.I figured out the nitrate solution I think. This is going to be a fish only system so I’m not using my ro water but just tap and thus I used dechlorinator. I believe when I topped off to decrease salinity yesterday I didn’t mix well and it detoxified the nitrates. Just a guess but seems logical.