New tank cycle, what do you think?

[skinz78]

I recently bought my 210g tank and it was full of rocks that had detritus and other undesireables on them so I boiled them outside for 5 min. I then pressure washed them off and dried them in the sun for a day. I placed them in the tank about two weeks ago along with some Macro algae's and a rock from my 120g. Three nights ago I decided to place a few corals in there to see what would happen and they are doing quite well now. I just checked my ammonia and it's at about .50ppm and my nitrates are at about 5ppm.

My question is would you consider the cycle to be over now? I'm thinking of adding more corals to the tank.

 

[NanaReefer]

As long as your getting an ammonia reading I'd say, no.


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[glb]

I'd take the corals out for now. They're very sensitive to ammonia. Good luck'

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I would say the coral are fine, because the initial cycle is ramping down.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Cycle is not over, no.
And adding more coral would all depend on the coral. I definately wouldn't be putting and SPS in there. The corals you have in there, are they fully extended? Im curious, most hate a bunch of Nitrates, I can only imagine what they do when Ammonia is in the tank.