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Qckslvr

Qckslvr

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So my wife and I kicked off the 90 with Dr Tim’s All in One, and fed the tank Ammonium Chloride. Dr Tim’s claims ready same day, etc. I picked up a Salifert test kit, and it has been two days now. Each time I test the tank it is in the .15 range. Do we give it more time? Put more Dr Tim’s in?

The tank isn’t all virgin rock, we took two of the large rocks from our 30 and put them in the sump.
 
Fishless cycle usually takes 2weeks to a month. You add dead rock and live rock to seed. Then bottle bacteria ( optional ). You add your ammonia to whatever the bottle says. Then you wait. Ammonia will go up then down. Nitrite will go up then down. Nitrate will go up then down. Then your cycle is complete. You have a new baby aquarium that is just born. You need to treat it like a baby. Slow and steady. At this point. You can add more ammonia and it should be all gone in two to three days. That’s how your supposed to do a Fishless cycle.
 
How much all in one did you use, and how much ammonia? Ammonia stalling when you used the bottle bac and when seeded with existing rocks seems unexpected.

No chance you dumped a crap ton of ammonia in there? Additionally are you confident in your ammonia reading? Salifert hopefully is reliable, but I know the API ammonia test can give incorrect non-zero readings.

Also if you're adding any more ammonia, I'd pause on that. For me, once I see ammonia zero I'd consider it good to go for initial items.
 
highly recommend waiting until undetectable or at minimum exceedingly low ammonia reading before adding livestock of any kind. To answer directly, yes, give it more time.

Adding seeded media can speed this up significantly. If ammonia is not decreasing, I wouldn’t add any more for the time being
 
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