Need some help with cycle

[LEOreefer]

Hey everyone i need some advise I started using the red sea mature program and decided I didnt want to continue. So I got a bottle of Dr tims aquatic ammonium
here is what my ammonia is reading. It's in the <.15 category maybe .25. As per the instructions on the ammonia bottle it reads "add 1 drop per gal (Or 1 ml per 20 gal ; cap =6 ml) of aquarium water to achieve an ammonia nitrogen level concentration of 2 "
So in a 60 gallon system i added 3 ml with no change in ammonia reading . Not sure what I'm doing wrong

 

[LEOreefer]

Current ammonia test

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Add the same proportion to some normal seawater and see if the kit reads it correctly.

 

[LEOreefer]

Add the same proportion to some normal seawater and see if the kit reads it correctly.

The test kit read correctly. I doubled the dose of ammonia in the tank and re tested and i was able to achieve the 1.5 ppm reading via the test kit

 

[Mandrew]

Dr tim says if you add the bacteria and ammonia then wait 24 hours you may not read ammonia because the bacteria already consumed it.

 

[Mandrew]

I may have read your post wrong. Did you use dr tims bacteria product as well?

 

[LEOreefer]

I may have read your post wrong. Did you use dr tims bacteria product as well?

I did not use Dr tims bac. The only bac that was used was a bottle of red seas bac

 

[Mandrew]

It may work the same way then.

 

[Mandrew]