Tank not cycling

[fisherman08]

So I have a 30 gallon tank with 40lbs of live sand, 40lbs cured live rock. I have had it set up fot a week already and It stll hasn't started to cycle yet... my ammonia and nitrates are at zero still, please help!!!!

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[KantGetRite]

what is your ammonia source? If you don't have something that produces ammonia then it will never cycle.

I use pure household ammonia from walmart but other use shrimp that decay in the tank. (if you use shrimp but them in a mesh bag so it doesn't get all over your tank)

 

[fisherman08]

Okay, how many should I put in my tank?

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[BigRedsReefs10]

1 is fine

 

[jeremy upshir]

I used one shrimp on my 50 gal and it seemed to work fine also...

 

[fisherman08]

Thanks, so I was aloso told that because I added cured live rock, sand etc that it did a small and fast cycle. For two days I had both ammonia and nitrates at 1 then it went back to zero

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[jeremy upshir]

just sounds like to me there possibly wasn't enough ammonia to cycle so 1 shrimp should do the trick.. some people use pure ammonia but I personally have not tried it

 

[fisherman08]

Okay I added a shrimp into the water, I will check back in a few days from now

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[jeremy upshir]

cool keep us updated on the tank

 

[fisherman08]

Okay will do

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[fisherman08]

So update on the tank stats.... ammonia- .25 nitrites- 0 PH- 8 salinity- 1.024

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[jeremy upshir]

sweet that shrimps doing its job

 

[fisherman08]

Awesome, thanks again

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