Water parameter question

Tomb9646 · Mar 15, 2021

My 110 tank with 40 gal refugium has been cycling since march 6. I have been testing water every other day and today they are:
ammonia .50ppm
Nitrite: .25ppm
Nitrate: .20ppm

Should I see the ammonia dropping? It has been at .50ppm since 3/9.

Also have live sand and cycled live rock.

Tomb9646 · Mar 15, 2021

Tomb9646 said:
My 110 tank with 40 gal refugium has been cycling since march 6. I have been testing water every other day and today they are:
ammonia .50ppm
Nitrite: .25ppm
Nitrate: .20ppm

Should I see the ammonia dropping? It has been at .50ppm since 3/9.

Also have live sand and cycled live rock.

40# live rock (wife put me on a budget)

Tomb9646 · Mar 16, 2021

saltybees · Mar 16, 2021

Are you ghost feeding? What test kits are you using? I’d throw a bottle of bacteria in it and a dead shrimp and keep testing, it’s a pretty big system and hasn’t been running very long

Tomb9646 · Mar 16, 2021

Yeah ghost feeding.no dead shrimp. I got the API .

brandon429 · Mar 16, 2021

live rock shows up ready, post pics.

there are one thousand .5 ammonia misreads logged on the web, this may not be any different. how a thread is titled determines largely if the respondents accept the test kits as accurate or not, but the truth is what test kits do runs independent from how we feel about a title.

transferring live rocks among tanks, or among cities, does not kill the bacteria nor the worms its always a test misread. Ive never seen one valid reading in the matter, its twenty years of solid misreads in fact I've seen.

brandon429 · Mar 16, 2021

A thread tracking pure skip cycle instant reefs, no bottle bac

This is a testless cycling thread, we don't want ammonia testing here for any job if possible, because we are teaching reefers/readers that moving live rocks system to system does not restart the cycle: many in our community don't understand that rule and feel that any tank being setup simply...

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