Where are my nitrates?

Dj City · Feb 27, 2020

I'm a little confused or it's been too long since I've set up a new tank.

I am cycling a 180g tank with about 180 to 200g total water volume.
I added 200 drops of Dr Tim's ammonia, just over 16oz of Bio Spira and about 100ml of MB7 bottled bacteria 10 days ago and have been adding 40ml of MB7 everyday since for the past 10 days.
I test my ammonia and get zero. I test my nitrite and get zero. I test my nitrate and get zero.

I've added 200 drops of Dr Tim's ammonia a few times. The ammonia comes back to zero within 24 hours.

Where are the nitrites?
Where are the nitrates?

I just added 200 drops of ammonia and tested 1ppm. I'm sure that later today it will be back to zero. With that being said, I don't understand why I don't show any nitrites or nitrates.

What am I missing here?

Spare time · Feb 27, 2020

Maybe the microbacter7 is consuming the nitrates?

Jenuvio · Feb 27, 2020

Tank is cycled it seems, throw in some harder to decompose ammonia source... fish and food

Dj City · Feb 27, 2020

Im a somewhat experienced reefer but it's been a while since I started a new reef from scratch.

Spare time said:
Maybe the microbacter7 is consuming the nitrates?

I thought about that but I never got the nitrite spike.
Maybe i skip cycled from the VERY SMALL amount of established media i added to the tank on day 1. (I doubt it though)