This also may help: if you just change about half your water you can begin reefing. basic bioload control will be set past day ten of a boosted/fed cycle.
even some of the things that can initially harm a cycle on day one are mitigated by day ten, it's why all cycling charts agree on the drop date whether in book, online etc. your seachem happens to agree here as well.
if you want to see a link of 30+ pages of collections of day ten bottle bac starts that can be posted, your overall non digtal ammonia tests don't matter much among cycles it's all about the charted/documented wait time.
Ten days or more, nearing double for you, is enough to seat in the functional bacteria we need. cycle charts show ammonia control at least by that date; meticulous testing on day ten starts applied in actual reefs for more than two years shows perfect results...what api or red sea read the whole time was never factored.
we did it all on predetermined wait times, which you've exceeded. if you change water and begin reefing, your setup is as safe to carry life now as it will be in eighty more days wait, per results on file. new cycling science factors wait time nearly exclusively in assigning start dates. the big water change equalizes all variables, leaving a working bioslick behind attached to all wet surfaces.
here is your exact api color
fixed with one water change then turned into a reef trackable out to 2 years.
So in my previous thread, I had an ammonia issue that was out of hand. As suggested, I did a 100% WC and now i’m wondering when I should start adding fish back. If anyone has suggestions, let me know!
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