Ammonia cycling a new tank.
Who instructed you to do that?Originally Posted by Reef Swimmer
Cycling a tank is like a balancing act, sure you could dose something, and then when the bacteria grows to consume the ammonia they will in turn produce nitrites, which will be taken care of by your bacteria that produces nitrates.
But then you stop dosing ammonia, and the bacterial circle of life falters and you're left with an out of wack filtration. Or, you add precisely the right amount of livestock that will produce close to the 6ml of ammonia you had been dosing... Any idea how you calculate that? Not to mention that livestock will need to be fed, which means you have to calculate the expected breakdown of unbeaten food...
Let your tank cycle with a little food to ghost feed your tank. Once you start showing nitrates, you can add fish or what ever slowly.
The reason we don't put a bucket load of fish into a new tank is because the filtration isn't equipped to handle it, so you bump it up slowly. The bacterial response to each addition takes time.
Bottom line, dosing ammonia, IMO, isn't a good idea.
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