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Change as much as you can so when you start reefing it's clean. The thread shows that no amnt of water change can harm a completed cycle.
Life rock we can see from their site is painted in bacteria, you submerging it already cycled it too. The boosts you used were not needed. This was a skip cycle setup but it didn't harm to use them either, post pics of your rocks
we always try and change out most or all of the wastewater from the cycle. Agreed above, if you want to measure your cycle completion it's not from this current waste water, it's after you change out the water back to zero ammonia, then you spike to 1ppm ammonia, then test in 24 hours. You aren't looking for zero, you are looking for anything less than the one ppm you started with to show movement. We do not depend on hobby test kits to read zero reliably, searches show why. if a few can report zero ammonia correctly then that will be neat to see. Our cycling thread above is built around not using tests because they have SO many confounds.
In hundreds of 'ghost ammonia' threads we found out they'd used Prime during water prep and it skews the whole reading.. but for the first three pages everyone thought they had a stalled cycle, for example. In other threads we noticed people basing their entire cycle on the ending wastewater, after fifty times the normal amounts the tank will ever see of raw ammonia had been input, and the wonky nitrite readings again signaled a stalled cycle, which does not occur.
Make tests off a clean water palette not the ending mixed metabolite water palette
Life rock we can see from their site is painted in bacteria, you submerging it already cycled it too. The boosts you used were not needed. This was a skip cycle setup but it didn't harm to use them either, post pics of your rocks
we always try and change out most or all of the wastewater from the cycle. Agreed above, if you want to measure your cycle completion it's not from this current waste water, it's after you change out the water back to zero ammonia, then you spike to 1ppm ammonia, then test in 24 hours. You aren't looking for zero, you are looking for anything less than the one ppm you started with to show movement. We do not depend on hobby test kits to read zero reliably, searches show why. if a few can report zero ammonia correctly then that will be neat to see. Our cycling thread above is built around not using tests because they have SO many confounds.
In hundreds of 'ghost ammonia' threads we found out they'd used Prime during water prep and it skews the whole reading.. but for the first three pages everyone thought they had a stalled cycle, for example. In other threads we noticed people basing their entire cycle on the ending wastewater, after fifty times the normal amounts the tank will ever see of raw ammonia had been input, and the wonky nitrite readings again signaled a stalled cycle, which does not occur.
Make tests off a clean water palette not the ending mixed metabolite water palette
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