Cycleing impatience, what gives!?

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Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

This sounds like a classic case of an instant cycle. I doubt the rock was dead in the first place. Those pods had to have come from somewhere. Uncured maybe, but you certainly cured it over the 3 months (or whatever it was). I'd say you are not getting NH3 and NO2, because the tank cycled instantly. This is the result of there being enough nitrifying bacteria in the rock already, to deal with any ammonia. As for the NO3, I'd say you are not detecting a reading there because you're bio-load is extremely low right now.

Long story short, you're good to go, IMO.

Cheers,

This is what I've been pondering. Is there no NO3 at all as in it's not cycled yet or is it cycled but the NO3 is not reading because of low bio load. *sigh* I wish I knew for sure.

I'm going to find out soon how well off this tank is or not because we just put all the LR with our zoo corals on it in this tank. We had the zoo rocks in the sump under PC lights but they looked so terrible, we decided to put them in the new tank under the T5. I have to say the zoos are starting to open up and look better, so here's hoping.

I think if in a week or so if all the zoos are doing well in the new tank, we'll plumb the two tanks together and move the angels over.

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Thought I'd add pic.'s of what the LR looked like a month ago:
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and what it looks like now:
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The zoo rocks are going to go back to the reef tank once everything is plumbed together and the angels are moved over.