Overdosed while cycling

sean rand · Feb 9, 2019

Hello everyone!
I am currently cycling my 150 gallon tank with reef mature from red sea and I'm at day 13 and I realized I miscalculated my gallons with the sump rock and sand, I overdosed for around 25 gallons. My numbers are not what red sea said it supposed to be. I was wondering if I should let it correct itself or do a water change?

EmdeReef · Feb 9, 2019

Did you overdose their bacteria product? If so, there’s no need to worry.

sean rand · Feb 9, 2019

EmdeReef said:
Did you overdose their bacteria product? If so, there’s no need to worry.

I over dosed all components of the cycle. At this point my nitrite and ammonia should be 0 and its showing 2.00 ppm and my ammonia is 1ppm. So not sure what to do

DenverSaltyFarm · Feb 10, 2019

thats not that far off it will all get to zero soon all you did was add a little time. what you dont want to do is make drastic changes

vetteguy53081 · Feb 10, 2019

It will calm down. You can if you want remove some water and salvage in buckets and add new mix to bring down a little and then utilize the water you salvaged with new when introducing new water into tank in the future

sean rand · Feb 10, 2019

vetteguy53081 said:
It will calm down. You can if you want remove some water and salvage in buckets and add new mix to bring down a little and then utilize the water you salvaged with new when introducing new water into tank in the future

I already used whatever I had. According to the red sea schedual I am due for a 5% water change tomorrow. So I will test again tomorrow after the water change. Hopefully that will hell.