Using a shrimp to do the fishless cycle in a 29 gal. Started March 7th. Seeded with gravel from another tank on day 4. Ammonia started to come down while nitrIte and nitrAte both skyrocketed... these last few days, nitrIte has come way down and this morning nitrIte was .5. Odd thing is that nitrAte has plummeted from where it was too... Looks like I do have some brown algae growing in there too.
Is the cycle near complete with the brown algae eating all of my nitrAtes, or am I stalled?
Is the cycle near complete with the brown algae eating all of my nitrAtes, or am I stalled?