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Thoughts on this hammer. Tank has go through the wringer this past week with a cyano outbreak, velvet killing all fish and 30% water change trying to get ammonia down. Dosing prime but still around .28. Not sure what else to do!!

Day #7 🐠🔥

Unexpected update… the Flowerhorn is arriving EARLIER than expected tomorrow 😅📦🐟

The tank is still in the middle of the nitrogen cycle, but we’re seeing solid progress every day 👨🏻‍🔬

Current parameters:

• Ammonia: ~0.25 ppm

• Nitrite: ~1.0–2.0 ppm

• Nitrate: 5–10+ ppm

• pH: 7.6

✅ Crystal clear water

✅ Nitrites processing

✅ Nitrates increasing

✅ Heavy aeration & filtration running 24/7

✅ Pothos added for natural nitrate absorption 🌱

✅ Beneficial bacteria growing fast

At this point the tank is officially alive — now waiting for the nitrite spike to crash before full stabilization 💪

The Flowerhorn lands tomorrow morning before noon 👑🐠

So now it’s crunch time 😅

Day #6 🐠🔥

The Flowerhorn tank is officially entering the nitrite spike phase of the nitrogen cycle 🔬

Current parameters:

• Ammonia: 0.25 ppm

• Nitrite: 1.0 ppm

• Nitrate: 0.50+ ppm

• pH: 7.6

Good signs:

✅ Beneficial bacteria growing

✅ Ammonia dropping

✅ Nitrates appearing

✅ Crystal clear water

✅ Heavy filtration & oxygenation running 24/7

Now we wait for the nitrites to fall and the ecosystem to stabilize before the Flowerhorn arrives 👑🐟

Slow process… but worth doing right 💯

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My first set up newbie…. Currently finishing up the cycling process

pH: 8.0–8.2

Ammonia: 0 ppm

Nitrite: 0–0.25 ppm

Nitrate: 0–5 ppm

Can someone help me or help me create a day by day schedule to help my tank im dosing neophos and prime but my reading are

Salinity 1.024

Alkalinity 15.3

PH 7.4

Phosphate 0

Nitrate 50-100

Nitrite 0.1

Ammonia 0.25

It’s only a 52L tank. I have a frogspawn(closed few days) everything else is fine 2 clownfish urchin torch and mushroom

I just started a hopefully long hobby of marine fish keeping. I finished mixing water yesterday and added ammonia for a fishlesss cycle. I look forward to learning a lot here!

The tank has finally cycled after 5 weeks did a 25% water change to drop nitrate both ammonia and nitrite 0

It’s been a long journey since December 20th with my first saltwater tank. Many battles and an ammonia struggle but all a learning process. Fixed all issues and fish are thriving. Tank is finally going through the dirty phase. Nitrites and nitrates still at 0 and ammonia at 0 so hoping we start seeing a shift.

Ugh newbie here and this isn’t an easy hobby! Began the day with ammonia reading .36 did a 10% water change new reading down to .21 with Seachem prime dosage.

Just added bacteria and ammonia today. Wish me luck!!

Picture of my tuxedo making my coral mad for attention😂

I need help‼️

Sorry for the long post

My tank is about 3 months old.. added my coral and fish after the initial cycle to where my ammonia dissipates 2ppm in about 2-3 days. I added fish and corals about a month ago. My soft corals are doing AWESOME, growing! The sps coral not so well. I screwed up though, I have a canister filter (see why people avoid them now) and I cleaned my filters (not the media) after the diatoms started to turn green. I think I have accidentally restarted the cycle... if you look at my parameters, I can "overfeed" and in a couple days my ammonia spikes, dissipates, then It seems to not turn to nitrites to be able to turn into nitrates... how do I get nitrates?

Struggling with something, doing 25% water changes every week nite phos ammo all 0 ph 8.2 salinity 37.5 I get this in less than 3 days