Is that ammonia test your using a 2 bottle test or just 1 bottle?
neither, 3 bottle. i am using a Marine Lab Red Sea test kit
Is that ammonia test your using a 2 bottle test or just 1 bottle?
How can your nitrates be 20-50? are you losing hermit crabs or snails? Kinda weird question have u tried another test kit get an api ammonia kit just a thought and have u done a pwc?
i can't see how you could have so much die off and not see it. i mean actually see dead things on the rock. i have no answers for you at this time except to check your test kits against others.
PrettyFishies said:What was the highest your ammonia got?
abdhalim said:is there any food/shrimp left in the tank right now..?? if so, i would suggest u to remove it....i have the same problem before...the thing that i did was added some bioring inside my sump...after a week, my ammonia reads 0...then i did PWC and remove out the biorings...just from my experience...and i knew that u dont have sump...
joy13 said:I know your test kit is probably new but I am wondering after this length of time why it hasn't cycled or if the kit is bad. See if your LFS will test your water with a liquid kit. I know one of the ones in my area does but most use the strips.
joy13 said:Nice rock work.
I don't know how much food you have put in your tank trying to cycle it but the canister filter might be contributing to the tank not cycling properly. Have you cleaned it and then do a test.