3 days in. First water test results.

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Tank has been wet three days. Used ammonium chloride solution, bio-spira combo to start cycle.

Tested next morning after the additives went in, and everything was off the charts. The pics above are today (3 day mark). Should I dose ammonia again?
 
I would wait 1 more day before more ammonia. Looks like .50 If thats an API test then it might show at .25 instead of 0.
No need to test for nitrate yet. That test will not be accurate as long as you have nitrite in the water.
Its on its way :)))))
 
Thank you so much!

I've been doing homework for almost a year, and I still don't feel very confident in my level of understanding of just what I need to initiate a cycle. My main fear is that my ammonia drops too low, and it stalls out.
I'm traveling this weekend, and will test again on Sunday.
 
Thank you so much!

I've been doing homework for almost a year, and I still don't feel very confident in my level of understanding of just what I need to initiate a cycle. My main fear is that my ammonia drops too low, and it stalls out.
I'm traveling this weekend, and will test again on Sunday.

Make sure to read the API nitrate instructions...I didn't and was so confused why I kept on getting 0 nitrates on an almost cycled tank! hopefully youre smarter than me but follow those nitrate instructions to a tee!!
 
Thanks everyone!

I was concerned about false readings or stalling my cycle with my poor chemistry skills. Glad to hear I'm at least on the right path!
 
Today’s results before dosing ammonia again:

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Should I redose ammonium chloride or let it ride?
 
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/the-microbiology-of-reef-tank-cycling.214618/

You can let it ride

Time is all that’s left, submersion time per that article, for you to cycle. Even if you didn’t test again it would still be cycled within a month and quicker most likely.

No tanks vary in cycle completion after the thirty day mark with the boosters you’ve added, how the water metabolites test in the interim won’t make a diff

The thread mentions how even if you changed out all the water and added no ammonia, it would resume cycling and still pass another oxidation ammonia test at day 30 if confirmation beyond the threads linked in that thread is required
 
Thanks for checking it out, I like to condense these highlights from the pages:

True live rock can be assessed without ammonia testing, which it's delicate organisms don't like. We can trust it to relocate bacteria always without assistance, I provide some fun testing such as draining my 13 yr old reef to the sand for thirty minutes full air contact

We talk about how to control cycles, opt in or out of them and lastly it's a no test cycling thread. We're simply submersion time cyclers. Everyone is testing wastewater after ammonia additions, getting varying degradation rates...so we don't factor what the tests read interim thirty days submersion time, post- bottle bac and ammonia

We only factor what the system can do after a full water change back to zero params, after submersion time goals are in place. Once it's been hydrated with boosters about 2 days most of the bac are plated in place per testing from linked Dr Reef threads.

There's a system of cycling that doesn't use test kits and doesn't fail to cycle all tanks by the same safe date. Fill n go, can't stall, can't mess it up. It's the rush jobs that need to be dosed precisely
 
~ UPDATE ~

ITS WORKING!!!


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Tank still looks really clean, without any growth at all. BUT MY BACTERIA IS WORKING! Woooo


....wife isn’t nearly as excited. :(


Adding lights this weekend! Might start a tank thread. This small victory has me so pumped!!
 

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