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texanjordan
Tue, 3rd Jun 2014, 08:24 AM
My tank has been set up for a little less than two weeks now. I ran all params last night, and I am still not seeing any traces of ammonia, nitrites or nitrates. I used bio spira when I set up, and I have 3 chromis in there since friday of last week. If I was going to have a cycle, I would have thought that ammonia would have shown up by now at least.

I also ran my reef test kit last night here are my readings
Cal: 525
ALK: 14.0 DKH/ 5.0 MEQ
MAG: 1600

My PH is sitting at 7.78 my salinity is around 35 PPM and my temp is 80.0

I had my kalk reactor on, but I think it was pushing too much kalk in the water which was raising my paramaters.

Any thoughts?

Dean
Tue, 3rd Jun 2014, 09:23 AM
You probably don't need to be dosing anything at this point. If your tank isn't consuming Kh dosing kalk will cause high alkalinity.

texanjordan
Tue, 3rd Jun 2014, 09:27 AM
I will shut off my reactor this afternoon when i get home.

Bill S
Tue, 3rd Jun 2014, 10:51 AM
Just let it run. Nothing worse than thinking you had a cycle, and didn't. And pH goes up and down during the day.