Cycling question

[Hornet]

Well I know there's tons of information and stuff about cycling, but it has me confused a little.
I am setting up a new RS 250. Skimmer is still off and there's nothing in there besides dry rock and some gravel.
I added Seachem Stability for as long as the bottle lasted in the doses that were described on the packaging.
I now, a month later, have nitrates above one, ammonia between 0,0 and 0,25 mg/l and nitrates above 50. I use red sea and colombo test kits.
Should I just wait it out till it all goes down or do a water change?
What about the skimmer? When do I turn that on.
I added Mangroves for the nitrates.

 

[brandon429]

You’re done see any common cycling chart, your testers are low grade and can’t help much. that much nitrate proves you are ready and active

change water you are done


look what low grade testing did in this thread

ammonia

My tank is about 4 months old. Really smooth sailing. My seachem says I'm perfect but my API test says I'm between .5 and 1. Haven't lost and fish but they are breathing fast. What do i trust. Or what should I do. I also have amguard from when I started. But I've never seen such high trst from...

www.reef2reef.com

theyre still not done debating ammonia lol case is closed though, yours too. In your tank you didn’t mention how you fed the bacteria during the cycle but with 50 nitrates we don’t need to know.

 

[Paulie069]

Well I know there's tons of information and stuff about cycling, but it has me confused a little.
I am setting up a new RS 250. Skimmer is still off and there's nothing in there besides dry rock and some gravel.
I added Seachem Stability for as long as the bottle lasted in the doses that were described on the packaging.
I now, a month later, have nitrates above one, ammonia between 0,0 and 0,25 mg/l and nitrates above 50. I use red sea and colombo test kits.
Should I just wait it out till it all goes down or do a water change?
What about the skimmer? When do I turn that on.
I added Mangroves for the nitrates.

Go to your freezer and get a shrimp and toss it in your tank,, it will kick things into gear quicker, just toss in and leave it.
old school method I learned from Paul.B. and his tank has been going for 48 years

 

[brandon429]

A helpful rule for both of these extended cycle posts is that at no time in reefing has a cycle stalled, it can’t occur. That was typed up information by bottle bac sellers, commonly claimed by forum posters so the false test reads could make sense

changing out water before beginning removed algae fuel caused by the variations in ammonia we all add during cycling