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Originally Posted by lunatik_69  Hey buddy, your still in the cycling period, so hang on for a little longer. From what you have posted so far, the only thing thats needs correcting is your cal and po4(phos). if your mag is at 1450, thats great. your cal is low b/c of your alk/dkh is high. Im going thou something similar. |
Im still in a cycling period??? Hmmmmmmmmm...
This tank was established for a year, and I used 50% of the water.
I haven't had a spec of ammonia or nitrites in this tank for 3 weeks. I started with a reading of .25 for ammonia on days 1 and 2, probably because of some LR die-off in transport.
I am new to salt, but I have kept fresh water tanks since I was 12 years old, and I completely disagree. In fact, I will come right out and say you are wrong, this tank is not cycling. Testing to see if a tank is cycling is very objective. Test kits remove the guesswork.
I am well aware the only thing that needs correcting is calcium and phosphates. No offense, but did you read the post? That was the entire basis of this post. I also know that 1450 is great, but I believe either the test tube wasn't clean, or the guy didn't use a full 5ml of my water, because it doesn't make sense that the calcium supplement is doing nothing.
Thanks for replying, but like I said, there is no cycle going on. When I make it to the LFS late this afternoon, I will figure it out (hopefully).
With all that said, I created this thread to see if anyone has any feedback, and since you said you are experiencing "similar" things, Im curious to see what you are experiencing. But if your tank is going through a nitrogen cycle, believe me, we are not experiencing the same thing.