Why does it matter if reef tanks can have stuck cycles? Because when you move homes you don't want to lose animals, cycling science needs precision and predictability in order to protect our tanks. perhaps an emergency setup is needed, no wait time permitted or If you are invited to show...
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a challenge was posed to the entire chemistry forum: disprove the statement that it is impossible for a reef tank to hover in the tenths ppm free ammonia.
they could not. How many times has someone successfully baited the entire chemistry forum before
no reef tank has held two tenths ppm free ammonia for days, zero. It cannot happen, a rule of surface area mechanics
that thread proves this tank here has no nitrite or ammonia issues, even though nobody agrees. nobody has counter data to prove a reef can hold above thousandths ppm, they have only misreading tests.
Our hobby cannot call a test kit wrong, we’ve never been given permission for that. We make retail buys off wrong test reads, thats the rules we’ve been given.
By knowing this tank was never in cycle distress, it was simple eutrophic shift from a bunch of pent up waste not cleaned out, he can make the reef work correctly like we do in other work threads. But that will only come about last ditch option, when all else has failed to give results wanted.
nitrite has no bearing in reefing any longer, not possible to test accurately for it. Too many confounds, and it’s a neutral param anyway (per the link)
