there were other ways to verify this cycle other than testing, that's handy to know.
these rules apply as well imo:
- there are no cycle charts from books that take longer than 30 days in water
(printed cycling charts are free and independent from the insult that is collective hobby nondigital ammonia testing + rule determination with the readings)
- there is not one single linkable example in all of reefing, any year from any board from any thread, where a convincing argument can be made that at day 30 of any cycling approach, the tank couldn't carry the intended bioload.
precedent also makes a nice verifier
wait time-based cycling lets reefers focus instead on fish disease since that's where the risk is at
well done here.
this reef is long since cycled. change out the cycling water for new, as much % of water as you can stand to change because a clean start is great, and the cycle was already done a couple weeks ago.
@Dan_P add to my spot-check list: the claim that any shrimp + contact time cycle in a common test system left for 14 days can endure a full water change, then demonstrate fair ammonia control upon retest just like Dr. Reef tested for his giant thread of deposition dates among brands of bottle bac. The nominal ability the surfaces developed for ammonia uptake by day 14 in a common reef tank cycle spread out among the collective degree of rock surface area people typically use per gallon= no problem carrying anyone's fish load by day 14 wait, which is just a mere +2-4 days longer than a printed cycling chart shows for ammonia control drop dates. it may very well happen by day ten, as the books show.
if there was almost no ability at day 14 wait in a shrimp degradation cycle I'd be flabbergasted.
My prediction to be ran through seneye proofing is this arrangement can demonstrate biofilm+filter bacteria establishment on or before day 14 and it will never take longer. that's the closest I can guess having never been seneye fact-checked on the matter.
