It is now week 3 of my cycle and my ammonia is now 0, my nitrites are now 0 my ph is 8.0, my nitrates are between 5 and 1. So I should be happy it looks like my cycle is over....BUT I am being told by my LFS this is not the case, and I will explain why. I cycled my tank with 2 raw shrimp, and without any live rock, I have 200lbs dead base, and I have 180lbs of sand, 80 of which is aragalive. My LFS (I am not going to name them) says that my cycle was not strong enough and that I only had a mini cycle. Now when my cycle began the ammonia spiked only to .5 and my nitrites to .25. Now as far as I know that is a cycle. Now I am planning on adding live rock but cured. they are telling me I need to add uncured rock and cycle again and let it spike higher. So what do I do?