MonsterReef
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Hey y'all I've been cycling the seahorse tank for about two and a half weeks I'll feed it heavily with brine shrimp and the ammonium spike within a day or two it will go away but there are no nitrates what is going on
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You won't read nitrates until your bacteria have converted the ammonia to nitrogen and then to nitrate...don't do a water change until your ammonia is zero and nitrite is zero at this point you should be reading some nitrates. Hope that helps.
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MonsterReef
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Not reading either of them and ammonium disappears no nitrites or nitrates
I wouldn't do anything other than a test daily to check for nitrates..the reason being ammonia is the beginning of your nitrogen cycle...the evidence of your bacteria being a functioning, living colony is nitrate and if your first 2 stages (ammonia/ nitrogen) are reading zero then you should start to see nitrate readings(a good sign) .
