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BLAKEJOHN · 11-10-2008, 03:06 AM

Elevated Ammonis is probly due to stocking too quickly. You bacteria colonies grow slow. During your cycle only enough bacteria grew to accomodate the amount of ammonia at the time. How much live rock do you ave in pounds? You need approx 55lbs for a 55gl tank. This give you plenty of suface area for nitrifying bacteria to grow. Adding a handfull of stock will cause a level of ammonia that may have been higher then the bacteria could handle in a sense causing another cycle. It is posible that you cycle may have never really started to begin with. Thats what happened to me. My ammonia was up to 1-2ppm and then then zero it was this way for a month untill I literally put in a good amount of urine and some cocktail shrimp and the my ammonia was off the charts and my cycle really started. Sorry for the rabbling but we would nee a bit more info on your tank to better understand what happend otherwise its just speculation.

BTW get that RO unit ASAP. Tap water is bad and can cause you many problems.

11-10-2008, 03:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
BLAKEJOHN Elegance coral Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: KINGSTON, I.L. Posts: 1,073 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Reds first sw tank Elevated Ammonis is probly due to stocking too quickly. You bacteria colonies grow slow. During your cycle only enough bacteria grew to accomodate the amount of ammonia at the time. How much live rock do you ave in pounds? You need approx 55lbs for a 55gl tank. This give you plenty of suface area for nitrifying bacteria to grow. Adding a handfull of stock will cause a level of ammonia that may have been higher then the bacteria could handle in a sense causing another cycle. It is posible that you cycle may have never really started to begin with. Thats what happened to me. My ammonia was up to 1-2ppm and then then zero it was this way for a month untill I literally put in a good amount of urine and some cocktail shrimp and the my ammonia was off the charts and my cycle really started. Sorry for the rabbling but we would nee a bit more info on your tank to better understand what happend otherwise its just speculation. BTW get that RO unit ASAP. Tap water is bad and can cause you many problems. __________________ 110 gallon acrylic 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Blue Tang, 2 Eng Gobies, 1 Six Line Wrasse, 1 Tomato Clown, 1 Lion fish RBTA, Longspine Urchin, Approx. 200 snails Red Monti, Purple Rim Monti, Leathers, Elegence, Yellow Polyps, various Zoa's, FrogSpawn, Ricordias, Greenbirdsnest, Pink Milli, Blue Milli, Bonzai, unknown Acropora's, Purple Digi, GSP, Bubble Coral, Staghorn, Slimer Last edited by BLAKEJOHN : 11-10-2008 at 12:00 PM.