Tonyb111111
Fishaholic
I need to understand something now I am more knowledgeable than when I first wrote a thread about live sand. I believe a cycle is defined as when ammonia and nitrite have zeroed out and nitrates are produced, this could be my first wrong assumption. When I first filled my tank at the start of January with caribsea live sand, i was a newbie and therefore diligently tested my water every day for well over 6 weeks, and my question is based on the results achieved. From day one there was zero ammonia and 0.25 nitrites. No ammonia was added so that would make sense, but i couldn't explain the nitrites, and it wasn't in the tap water which was zero for both. This stayed the same for 10 days, then the nitrite zeroed out. Tested for three more days, no change so added some fish. Monitored for a week and no change, so added some more fish. Continued with this until I was fully stocked, and I have still never seen ammonia in my water, and nitrite only for the first 10 days (ammonia test does work as I tried it on a friends tank). So, could my tank have cycled in ten days as I can't see how, or is there another explanation