Been running a week- cycle ?

[Iamjeff6]

So wondering if im cycled? Tested for the first time last night.

18ish lb of live rock and live sand

been running for a week, parameters are as follows- measured with Red Sea kit

ammonia -0
Nitrite- 0
kh- 9 dkh
Nitrate- 10
ph- 8.2
Salinity- 1.023

Saltwater is brand new to me.

 

[Dempsey941]

If you dose your tank up to 2ppm of ammonia and within 24 hours you have 0 ammonia and ~0 nitrite then you are good to go.

 

[Iamjeff6]

I have experience dosing freshwater- is it ok to dose ammonia with live rock?

 

[131696]

Wait be patient,these are animals your putting in there,I set up a 125 tank with 50 lbs live rock from other tank that was set up for 2 yrs. it’s been since sept 4 and I’m still waiting 4 months later and waiting 1 more month then I will put a test piece ,there no hurry on saltwater tanks,the longer you wait the better it will be.just wait let it run

 

[Iamjeff6]

Wait be patient,these are animals your putting in there,I set up a 125 tank with 50 lbs live rock from other tank that was set up for 2 yrs. it’s been since sept 4 and I’m still waiting 4 months later and waiting 1 more month then I will put a test piece ,there no hurry on saltwater tanks,the longer you wait the better it will be.just wait let it run

no rush I just wanna see where I’m at in my cycle. With no ammonia and nitrites present but low nitrates wasn’t sure if I was at the end of the cycle or finished.

I thought I read somewhere not to dose ammonia with live rock,

 

[brandon429]

Ammonia testing is for dry rock cycle verification.

This thread is best example of skip cycling and has all required pics and details, and we never used testing therefore results will be consistent tank to tank. The thread directly describes how to visually cycle live rock and know if it’s ready. If you have life forms attached to the live rock then it’s ready, pretty quick test.

Brand new, could use some help with cycling Info!

This is cycling 2020, some aquariums are simply ready and they transfer ready, thats how nearly all tanks at huge marine aquarium conventions get set up, without a cycle, successfully. its not that you have to buy more things, bottle bac, or wait for testers to line up (they dont read right...

www.reef2reef.com

We add ammonia to test dry rock cycles where there are no animals inside the rock being burned. Live rock moved from a pet store to home retains all of its bacteria.

 

[Reef.]

So wondering if im cycled? Tested for the first time last night.

18ish lb of live rock and live sand

been running for a week, parameters are as follows- measured with Red Sea kit

ammonia -0
Nitrite- 0
kh- 9 dkh
Nitrate- 10
ph- 8.2
Salinity- 1.023

Saltwater is brand new to me.

10 for nitrate for a newly cycled tank seems very low.

I would double check the cycle has even started before you consider that tank is cycled.

 

[Iamjeff6]

Ammonia testing is for dry rock cycle verification.

This thread is best example of skip cycling and has all required pics and details, and we never used testing therefore results will be consistent tank to tank. The thread directly describes how to visually cycle live rock and know if it’s ready. If you have life forms attached to the live rock then it’s ready, pretty quick test.

Brand new, could use some help with cycling Info!

This is cycling 2020, some aquariums are simply ready and they transfer ready, thats how nearly all tanks at huge marine aquarium conventions get set up, without a cycle, successfully. its not that you have to buy more things, bottle bac, or wait for testers to line up (they dont read right...

www.reef2reef.com

We add ammonia to test dry rock cycles where there are no animals inside the rock being burned. Live rock moved from a pet store to home retains all of its bacteria.

we picked a few snails off at the lfs and just the other day I killed an Aiptasia growing on the rock, and also spotted a feather duster on the rock.

 

[brandon429]

Sight unseen the tank is cycled. that’s both hilarious and offensive to the establishment

Can you post pictures I’m collecting examples of testless reef cycling for an article.

 

[mfinn]

So wondering if im cycled? Tested for the first time last night.

18ish lb of live rock and live sand

been running for a week, parameters are as follows- measured with Red Sea kit

ammonia -0
Nitrite- 0
kh- 9 dkh
Nitrate- 10
ph- 8.2
Salinity- 1.023

Saltwater is brand new to me.

Did you buy cycled live rock?
If you used dry rock, did you add a bacteria product?

Describe what you bought and how you set it up.

 

[brandon429]

We can tell him the recent month’s history of the live rock just by his stated attachments even before pics, and stamp the cycled closed and all parameters compliant off the verbal description long before we see literally any aspect of his tank or tests. Any test that didn’t line up with inferences would mean the test is wrong


sentence cycling so 2020 lol

 

[Iamjeff6]

Did you buy cycled live rock?
If you used dry rock, did you add a bacteria product?

Describe what you bought and how you set it up.

yup cycled from the fish store, dug around in the water picking out rocks

 

[Iamjeff6]

Sight unseen the tank is cycled. that’s both hilarious and offensive to the establishment

Can you post pictures I’m collecting examples of testless reef cycling for an article.

 

[brandon429]

If you put a living animal in the tank, the animal lives

If you were to put the same animal in a paint bucket with sw, formerly dry sand, dry rocks the animal is dead in two days max but likely overnite. That’s how stark and consequential reef cycling is, no room for error where ammonia cannot be handled

Anything api test kits have to say simply don’t matter in the least for this tank.

People typically use live sand that is wet packed / it’s all my lfs has and that stuff carries its own bioload testing because I’ve seen it run a tank of baby clownfish with no other rocks or filtration in place, at lfs....If you used wet pack live sand then it’s triply confirmed cycle closed, and if you didn’t the time it takes for a fanworm to attach is months longer than nitrifers take to adhere to rocks and those alone will carry the initial start bioload.

Let’s add an animal
It’s ideal to do a water change, siphon up topical sandbed growths, clean off rocks externally if there is algae and continue on clean course.

All tanks at MACNA conventions have done what you did, or they would miss the start date.

 

[mfinn]

yup cycled from the fish store, dug around in the water picking out rocks

If you got good quality cycled ( emphasis on cycled) rock and kept it wet the entire time, it is possible the tank has cycled.

 

[Iamjeff6]

If you put a living animal in the tank, the animal lives

If you were to put the same animal in a paint bucket with sw, formerly dry sand, dry rocks the animal is dead in two days max but likely overnite. That’s how stark and consequential reef cycling is, no room for error where ammonia cannot be handled

Anything api test kits have to say simply don’t matter in the least for this tank.

People typically use live sand that is wet packed / it’s all my lfs has and that stuff carries its own bioload testing because I’ve seen it run a tank of baby clownfish with no other rocks or filtration in place, at lfs....If you used wet pack live sand then it’s triply confirmed cycle closed, and if you didn’t the time it takes for a fanworm to attach is months longer than nitrifers take to adhere to rocks and those alone will carry the initial start bioload.

Let’s add an animal
It’s ideal to do a water change, siphon up topical sandbed growths, clean off rocks externally if there is algae and continue on clean course.

used agra-Alive Fuji pink

 

[brandon429]

Love the stuff have been using it since 2002

 

[Iamjeff6]

Looks like some diatoms going on

 

[brandon429]

Some people leave em in place some people clean em out your call, the system wouldn't be harmed or uncycled if you did back to back 4x 100% water changes/ your call. No degree of siphoning and cleaning w harm it