My cycle is going faaaast!

so the day i read zero do a 10% PWC add food and off it stays zero for two days add fish? i like this.

 

This sounds like better advice then what I gave you. ;D

 

Haha I think I'm going to skip today and tomorrows tests and just wait till Friday to have it tested at the LFS.

 

am i understanding this correctly, the cube cycled in about 2 weeks ? did you seed your rocks and sand?

+1 on the small water change and pinch of food story

 

No it's not cycled yet. I'm waiting for nitrites to drop. This is day 14 I believe. I'm expecting it to be done in
4 or 5 days. And no I did not seed the rocks. Just a dead shrimp.

 

Alright the lfs tested aaaannddd....:

Ammo: 0.00
Nitrite: .25
Nitrate: 100+

So what I'm going to do is when my nitrites hit zero, I'll do a 25% pwc to get my nitrates down. I'll probably get my clowns on Thursday because that's when my parents credit card rolls over. I'm a happy boy!

 

Wow, those nitrates are high. I don't know if I have ever seen nitrates that high lol.

 

Haha yeah, hopefully by the time my nitrites are 0 and I do a pwc they'll go down.

 

Ok so I'm kinda upset because my API test kits seems to be just a good as test strips. My results make no sense at all compared to the salfert.

Ammonia: .1
Nitrite: either 2 or 5
Nitrate: 20
pH: off the charts low. The color is like yellow. It's probably around 7.0

Heres what the salfert tests say(I saw with my own eyes)

Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: .25
Nitrate: 100+
pH: not sure.

Tomorrow I'll be going to the LFS to have them test all four. I will definatly be getting some better test kits. Ugh.

 

Alright so my nitrites have been at 2 for the past week and a half so today we went to the LFS and got a pound of pukani live rock and a bottle of microbacter7. The title of this thread no longer makes sense.