andyl18 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 So my 3 gallon jbj picotype has been up for a week now. I started with 4 lbs of the PA "possibly cultured" fully cured Fiji lr and 4 lbs of their aquacultured live sand. I had it shipped UPS Ground but it was only in transit for around 3 days and seemed very well shipped. After a little less than a week of not seeing an ammonia spike(but definitely ammonia present) i began dosing with a small amount of ammonium chloride to hopefully help get things rolling. I have yet to see any traces of nitrites like i figured i would by now since i started with the liverock. I also began to see a small amount of brown algae on some of the sand. Is this normal for the cycle or am i doing something wrong? Thanks! Link to comment
Smurf Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Everything is fine, just wait it out and let it do its thing. The brown algae you see is probably diatoms. Very normal. Link to comment
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