Is this a complete cycle?

[Gravis]

Hey guys! my tank have been up for about 3 weeks. and the testing results looks like this

[/url]water parameters by kristian Gravvold, on Flickr[/IMG]

Pleas help. im waiting on a amonia spike but it never seems to come.

 

[boojumsnark25]

Are you dosing ammonia to .25 every day?

 

[Gravis]

I haven't dosed anything other than phantom feeding som mysis and pellets. My amonia stays stable at 0,25. Don't understand. So I was hoping if I added a fish like a salarias may be my amonia would rise and no2 and 3 bacteria would develop as we go along. The parameters looks stable?

 

[Gravis]

BTW I dose zeobak 2 times a week

 

[jminick2]

I wouldn't add a fish, Did you use all live rock and live sand?

 

[anthonys51]

I wouldn't add a fish, Did you use all live rock and live sand?

dont add fish while ammonia is still present

 

[thegrun]

Did you start with live rock or dry rock. If it was dry, I don't think the cycle has even started, there just hasn't been enough decay to build up the ammonia levels. If it was live it may have had enough bacteria on it already to prevent a cycle. I would dose the tank with enough pure ammonia (without surfactants) to raise the ammonia to 2ppm. Once that ammonia and subsequent nitrites drop to zero the cycle is complete. What test kit are you using? If it is an API the ammonia readings are probably zero not 0.25, their test kits routinely show 0.25 when no ammonia is present.

 

[Gravis]

Hi! I've used live rock and live sand. Using salifert test kit. I have fed this tank more over the last three weeks, than I have my stocked 90 gallon the last 3 months. Don't seem to change the amonia anything.

 

[Gravis]

Any ideas if the salifert shows poorly on 0.00

 

[thegrun]

Salifert has never had the false positive from my experience with them.