I'm 15 days into cycling a new 75g tank (started with fish, they've been moved out temporarily because of toxic ammo levels).
Ammonia is still 8.0+, nitrites came down from 2.0 to 0.25 a few days ago, nitrate still fairly low. pH came back up from 7.4 to 8.0 and has stayed there without any intervention.
Something must be pretty bad, all the bristle worms (I had around 20) in 3 different rocks all crawled out of the LR and curled up on the sand, where I was easily able to scoop them up. I haven't seen one in 3 days now.
The white film over a coral branch (assumed by Fluff and others to be an encrusting sponge) has started dying off, and is barely present now.
I was using ammo-loc and a little stress-zyme (as directed by the bottles) when the damsels were in there. I did a few days of Cycle treatment back in the first week. I don't think that did anything at all.
Now I'm seeing foamy bubbles on top - not a lot, about what you'd see 20 minutes after you filled up a sink full of dishwater. Bubbles are covering 60% or so of the surface of the tank.
Is this normal, or is there something else in the water that shouldn't be?
Ammonia is still 8.0+, nitrites came down from 2.0 to 0.25 a few days ago, nitrate still fairly low. pH came back up from 7.4 to 8.0 and has stayed there without any intervention.
Something must be pretty bad, all the bristle worms (I had around 20) in 3 different rocks all crawled out of the LR and curled up on the sand, where I was easily able to scoop them up. I haven't seen one in 3 days now.
The white film over a coral branch (assumed by Fluff and others to be an encrusting sponge) has started dying off, and is barely present now.
I was using ammo-loc and a little stress-zyme (as directed by the bottles) when the damsels were in there. I did a few days of Cycle treatment back in the first week. I don't think that did anything at all.
Now I'm seeing foamy bubbles on top - not a lot, about what you'd see 20 minutes after you filled up a sink full of dishwater. Bubbles are covering 60% or so of the surface of the tank.
Is this normal, or is there something else in the water that shouldn't be?