Unsure about Test Results

[rooneyj889]

Hey all,

I've been cycling my tank for just over a week by now and have been using the API master kit. However, I have had major problems with it so I picked up a Red Sea kit today and was an just in between colors so any help either that and any tips with anything else would be great. It is my first tank so i'm just kind of figuring everything out for the first time. Thanks!

 

[brandon429]

what made you not run that calibrated test/ the three picture test for ammonia?

that will easily tell us where you are at in the cycle. if Im not mistaken we showed in another thread how to deal with unclear readings, lemme know if thats wrong/different poster

you have a very specific option for making that tester for ammonia above prove your tank is ready, but we can't use the single-point reading so far. you used bottle bac shown to work in this time frame

 

[Monterey Bay Coral]

I would say your tank needs a little more time to cycle. A little hard to tell through the photos, but I’d say there is still ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate.

 

[rooneyj889]

I would say your tank needs a little more time to cycle. A little hard to tell through the photos, but I’d say there is still ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate.

Yeah it seemed to be very low amounts of ammonia and nitrite but i just wanted to make sure.

 

[rooneyj889]

what made you not run that calibrated test/ the three picture test for ammonia?

that will easily tell us where you are at in the cycle. if Im not mistaken we showed in another thread how to deal with unclear readings, lemme know if thats wrong/different poster

you have a very specific option for making that tester for ammonia above prove your tank is ready, but we can't use the single-point reading so far. you used bottle bac shown to work in this time frame

I don't have access to pure ammonia at any lfs and as i am doing a fish in cycle (because unfortunately that's what the lfs recommenced and i listened) J don't want to drop pure ammonia into the tank.

 

[brandon429]

hey that means you are already cycled

or he would be dead, uncycled tanks support no fish. your tester only works well for the movement measure, you're all set. easy one here, I didnt know you had bioload in place.

without bottle bac, he's have lived 48 hours max.

Day by day he acts normal, feeds, swims all around.

were the tank in the least bit uncycled, he would do none of that and it would be glaring obvious he was on the way out, days ago.

because bottle bac is this good, you are now fully cycled and if you changed out all your water and put the fish back, it would still be as cycled as it is right now after adding some to the water column. threads have already measured deposition rates, for all major brands. the companies have too, its on the directions usually/ fritz is about 2-3 days max, has tested faster at 24 hours deposition, biospira same, dr tims a bit further out closer to 10 days but still used in thousands of fish-in cycling where dilution does much of the easy work for a couple cycling clowns.

your tank is done though, done cycling. meaning if you added more life, it too would live and your testers might say anything they want to say as single point reads.