Hi I have a 32g biocube which has been setup since Jan. 1st with fuji purple dry rock about 30lbs and live aragonite for substrate. I left the tank with lights off for 2 weeks while on vacation and I came back and had some algae starting so I went to my LFS and got a bottle of turbo start and a blue damsel and turned the lights back on for 8 hours a day. A week later got 2 turbo snails, 5 hermit crabs and a emerald crab. The next week got 2 clowns and a yellow clown goby. All my readings have been fine except I'm not getting any nitrate readings with my API test kit at all and I've only done 2 water changes. My lfs recommended another water change and adding some more turbo start at the same time which is what I did last weekend. So I fed like normal and this weekend I have 0 nitrate readings? What's going on?
Cycling tank readings?!?!
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Do not buy bottle bac your cycle is done.
Read this thread as to how that call can be made only knowing your time underwater, not factoring a test kit. Email this thread response to your lfs and ask them about it in person
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I won't link your thread in there without permission
but if you will let me, we will detail your cycle status specific to your tank, you'll be confident no more expenditures are necessary.
There is a massive false sales push going on, bilking us thousands. If you will let others see your sales experience vs the real outcome of your cycle, you will be saving people money via warning.
If your lfs will read and perhaps respond here, we can undo simple misunderstandings vs actually being part of a sales procedure that uses false science, no reef tank can have a stalled cycle. Not one, ever. They have too much surface area to stall.
Read this thread as to how that call can be made only knowing your time underwater, not factoring a test kit. Email this thread response to your lfs and ask them about it in person
If you sell bottle bac as a retailer, or if you make it and sell it to retailers, read this thread
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/10g-nano-high-nitrites-no2-5ppm-no-ammonia-minimal-nitrates-no3-6ppm.683121/ This hobby is absolutely filled with people who think their cycle has stalled MACNA talks said cycles stall, but that’s in a warehouse sized room of 500 retail tanks selling stuff...
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I won't link your thread in there without permission
but if you will let me, we will detail your cycle status specific to your tank, you'll be confident no more expenditures are necessary.
There is a massive false sales push going on, bilking us thousands. If you will let others see your sales experience vs the real outcome of your cycle, you will be saving people money via warning.
If your lfs will read and perhaps respond here, we can undo simple misunderstandings vs actually being part of a sales procedure that uses false science, no reef tank can have a stalled cycle. Not one, ever. They have too much surface area to stall.
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Your lfs likely simply doesn't understand true cycle science, no ill intended. I would be interested to know the reactions any reader reading could summarize from an lfs owner shown this thread. Email it around, try and get counter opinions and let's review.
The animals named could not exist overnite in an uncycled tank, period. You're cycled no testing no further confirmation required and certainly no ammonia double checking/dosing. If cycles stalled, nobody could set up reefs at a macna convention and meet the start date, all 500.
they might have not directly advised you to buy more bac, you had some. But if your first bottle was empty, that line of thinking sells more bac. You didn’t need to add bac as soon as your fish stayed alive overnight and they need to know telltale signs of a completed cycle having nothing to do with api test kits
The animals named could not exist overnite in an uncycled tank, period. You're cycled no testing no further confirmation required and certainly no ammonia double checking/dosing. If cycles stalled, nobody could set up reefs at a macna convention and meet the start date, all 500.
they might have not directly advised you to buy more bac, you had some. But if your first bottle was empty, that line of thinking sells more bac. You didn’t need to add bac as soon as your fish stayed alive overnight and they need to know telltale signs of a completed cycle having nothing to do with api test kits
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OK so I keep checking daily for my readings and show nothing no ammonia no nitrite or nitrate. My fish obviously show there is nothing by being alive and well for 3 weeks. Now do I wait to do a water change until nitrates start reading or should I continue as normal?
You can continue being fully confident the reef is off and running, at no point are you low on bac or anything. We have ten year old reefs that show zero nitrate, common, unrelated to cycling. Enjoy this low nitrate period for the tank and feed more / fatten corals with the allowance.
Yes, check this out. Daniel is same starting point as you are, check out his feed water change results
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Cycling a new Biocube 32
Hello all! My name is Daniel from Florida and I’m starting to get into the reef hobby. I have been cycling my tank for two weeks now and logging it into an app. I have recently been gifted a live rock with some good amount of coralline on it. I also got some water from and established tank. My...
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