post full tank shot. Let’s list the five reasons and then see if pics line up for proofing:
1. no reef tank has trouble controlling ammonia at day 30. You’re past the universal completion date. if the rock you mentioned is cured, then you controlled ammonia as you do now, on day 1 (or nobody could start reef conventions on time, all tanks have to show up 50 days early I guess?)
2. uncycled reefs kill the animals in a few days or overnite. 20 sacrifical snails and dry rocks and a few gallons of saltwater in a bucket will reveal what starting before cycle completion causes. Cycle the rocks, re add 20 more ceriths, they live. Stark difference.
3. there are no partial, or stuck cycles, in the presence of rocks and sand/common display tank. Bottle bac sellers wrote the rule of stalled cycles, and as a result we bought lots of redundant bottle bac. They wrote the rule before seneye, and now are rather silent lol on rule updates post-seneye. Quarantine tanks or low surface area systems can fail to control ammonia.
4. fish that are being burned by ammonia act that way. Then they die, over nite.
5. lack of ammonia control in the presence of living delicate bioload and daily feeding for fish you’ve had in place results in water clouding, always, and then death. From your tank pics we get an idea of impending doom, or not.
youve been feeding this reef, plus all that bioload, cured rocks and 30 days.
ghost rule#6 nitrite and nitrite don’t factor in 2020 cycling science. Proof: Macna conventions all starting on a given date, without variance. They haven’t all lined up all three params perfectly by Friday, they online align for ammonia, then begin reefing at the convention in a one day setup.
this reef tank by the OP differs from the ten thousand MACNA insta reefs by zero percent, it’s the same. It’s number ten thousand and one insta reef, just at his home. he would be describing negative tank conditions not just a number typed into an app if ammonia wasn’t under control.
for fun and irony, compare anything I’ve typed to Macna videos on cycling, they state polar opposite set of rules. the irony is how we get told cycles can stall and what to buy or change to coax them into action, and the video is made in a convention hall of 500 reefs that didn’t have trouble stalling $$
pics seal the deal even if three other non seneye test confirm ammonia in the tenths ppm on day 40. Max # days to total ammonia control shown below and doesn’t range no matter which site shows the chart variation. 100% of cycles have ammonia control in place before twenty days. I’m glad api wasn’t used to make this chart.
