Ok great. How you cycled is where the hobby is heading and we just need to be able to study it from all angles, pics are final tie-in so helpful. You’ll be surprised at the cycling data the picture will provide as soon as we link animal placement, apparent surface area and number of days the tank has been running. We don’t need a single test kit to define your cycle status, also very 2020. *To do the pre verification of bottle bac we do need a test* but we don’t need a test to see what ammonia is doing after this long, in your tank.
these are updated and enduring 2020 cycle rules which make your tank predictable, even before pictures:
- ammonia non control is lethal, always, there isn’t an ‘irritation’ level free ammonia level sustained in new reefs. They either have the bacteria and surface area to handle X bioload, safely, or the reef tank doesn’t and the fish die long about when any other organism with lost kidney function would die, a few days max. number of days underwater plus fish in your tank plus pictures showing them distributed all around vs up top on their sides, we know your ammonia never hit pain or lethal levels. Pained fish act pained and we can see it.
- cycles will attain feed even if we provide none. A rain puddle cycles itself, no aquarist with their all-mighty fish food and liquid ammonia standing over, telling the puddle it can now cycle, required
#of days with water known and from the time axis of a common cycling chart we can locate the expected ammonia performance. You got to skip that eight day wait due to using bottle bac, which moves it up to instantly controls, owing to your fish still being alive.
-having one tiny fish in 500 gallons or ten fish in 500 gallons is the same impact on cycling, the one fish version doesn’t cycle weaker, or slower, as rain puddles attain food from the surroundings so does every reef in every home open to the environment for exchange.
-nothing we do in a home shy of using bathroom cleaner in the tank stalls, retrogrades, or makes a cycle not complete. 100% of cycles complete on a predictable date relative to the arrangement, this is how they get MACNA reef conventions set up on time and why all cycling charts use the same date no matter which book or post we see them in, it’s how earth works. No booth that pays entrance fees to be there ever misses a start date due to failed nitrite or nh3, they use merlins magic I guess lol.
Reef forum cycles and cycle rules are 1978 mode, they wouldn’t make a projected start date for any amount of incentive. If a reef poster gets invited to tank up at MACNA, on time, they’ll miss. But if they change into MACNA cycling rules, they'll make the start date.
we are using MACNA rules here.
