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What would these be?? Bad, good?? not great quality video, but the best I could get with the iphone.

the one have will be fine, just monitor your temp for a while

not sure, i have a similar cycle going on myself, and all i seeded with was a filter cartridge and bio wheel???? I guess i will stop questioning it and start stocking it:D one thing I think I was doing was, not shaking the nitrAte #2 solution enough and was getting some false readings??

I would bet on the driftwood holdin a ton of beneficial bacteria and helping the cycle

here one of each of mine, they are both FW but??? I'm kinda partial to the black??

Cant say for sure, but it will be a lot faster than starting from scratch. The more bio load (crap, decaying food ect) the more bacteria it takes to consume it. If you add some "good bacteria" it will start catching up rather rapidly. I just re-started an old 75gal SW with pure ammonia and...

Read up on the nitrogen cycle, and cycling a tank: Tips and tricks for your fastest fishless cycle! do some searches, there are a few ways to cycle a tank and addina a fish at a time is one of them. A new aquarium is just a tank of water, you put fish in it and feed them, they poop and...

makes sense that it would be the same

I would hold off on the ammonia remover, if your tank is cycling and you add that now, the cycle will never complete. Sounds like your tank wasn't ready to consume the ammonia produced by the fish and food. It may help things along to "seed" the bacteria in your tank with a filter pad or a cup...

ok, here is a better picture, what do I have? good or bad??

the white, the orange are some random plays. and get rid of the gift that keeps on giving.....:lol!:

another peice of the puzzle, it had only been tornd down for 2-3 days, with water standing over the substrate, but no flow or heat?? Could that be a factor? not a DSB, about 1 1/2-2"

The nitrates did climb, to around 40, but then they came back down?? I am using two different trusty ole API kits, my kit is the newest, and i obtained one with this setup and i ave been using them both and they have been consistant with one another, hence my confusion

so sponges do no harm? I have one about to overtake a kenya tree, I assume it is a sponge. will it choke out corals? sorry for the picture quality.

I have been doing a fishless cycle for the past few weeks on a 75 gal with 30 gal sump (maybe 22 actual gallons in sump). I am using the ammonia method, and here is a brief overview: After filling the tank and getting the temprature up, i started a HOB filter with a cartridge and bio wheel...