Stuck Cycling?

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:32 pm

That is a rena product, and they do sell zeolite packs - check all those compartments!

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:36 am

Zeolite looks a lot like carbon, too, so it might be mixed in with that.

caietaro · Post by **caietaro** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:55 am

They did send carbon with the filter but it was left out the entire time. Weird! Before I did the 100% water change I took the filter apart, rinsed the pads and bio-star things and nothing else was in there!

On an ever stranger note....I did the 100% water change, as I was filling the tank back up it was half way filled and my Nitrite was just barely above 0 which I guess would be understandable as I couldn't do a true 100% water change with the gravel holding some water and such. I filled the tank the rest of the way and left it over night without doing another test. The next day when I got home from work and did another test the Nitrite was high again and ammonia was zero!

I really have no idea whats going on! Since I did decide to switch to saltwater the SG went from 1.005 to 1.020 which should have killed all the bacteria!

I am completely baffled. At this point I would normally assume it's my test kit but I'm using two different kits and getting the same results!

I added some live rock to the tank so hopefully that will help!

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:51 pm

Could there be something dead (old food or something) in the tank, or maybe something from your house is causing weird spikes? Does you water have Nitrite in it?

caietaro · Post by **caietaro** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:14 pm

There shouldn't be anything dead in the tank, I haven't added anything but the decor and water. I've tested my tapwater and get readings of 0 for nitrite. As for decor I originally had one big giant resin (plastic) rock, 4 silk-like plants, and some lace rock, plus I'm using the "gray coast" aragonite substrate by Seachem. Last night I switched out the lace rock with liverock. I was using pure ammonia during the cycle before but didn't add any after the 100% water change.

I'll test the tank again this afternoon when I get home and see how things look.

caietaro · Post by **caietaro** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:28 am

Well good news! It finally seems like things are working with saltwater. I purchased some LR and a product from my LFS that is similar to bio-spira but is new. They said they had really good results with it and gave it to a bunch of customers to try and had really good results. I added half the bottle on Wednesday and the other half last night. As of last night my ammonia was 0 and nitrite was >5.0ppm. I added a few drops of pure ammonia to get it up to 0.25ppm and checked again this morning...ammonia was 0 again and nitrite had dropped to 1.0!

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:40 am

Congrats! Good to hear that SOMETHING is working for you. ^_^

How big is the tank again, and what are you plans? I think you mentioned a Toby of some sort, right?

caietaro · Post by **caietaro** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:19 pm

I know right...finally SOMETHING!

The tank is 47 gallons. I'm planning on a Valentini toby, a pair of false-perc clowns, and I've yet to decide on the last addition. I was thinking a small group (i.e. 3) of captive bred banggai cardinals.

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:14 pm

Sounds neat! I don't know much about different kinds of saltwater fish, but it seems like it'll be a pretty active tank.

caietaro · Post by **caietaro** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:54 pm

I'm hoping it turns out well! I'll be sure to post some pictures when it's said and done

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