New Tank cycle?

[Myka]

Some of your readings are out of whack. What brand of test kits are you using? During a cycle the pH should drop, often below 8.0m so I am skeptical that your pH is 8.5 which is rather quite high. Your alkalinity is very low as well, what brand of salt are you using? I think you still have a couple weeks of cycling to go before it is done. You may still have ammonia present which it looks like you aren't testing for. Snaz has good advise that you should wait at least 4 weeks for the cycle no matter if the readings are good. Be sure that whatever you end up doing, you do a 50-75% waterchange after your cycle, and before you add any critters to your tank. For further info on tank cycling read the Guide in my signature.

[jalemboo]

Originally Posted by Myka

Some of your readings are out of whack. What brand of test kits are you using? During a cycle the pH should drop, often below 8.0m so I am skeptical that your pH is 8.5 which is rather quite high. Your alkalinity is very low as well, what brand of salt are you using? I think you still have a couple weeks of cycling to go before it is done. You may still have ammonia present which it looks like you aren't testing for. Snaz has good advise that you should wait at least 4 weeks for the cycle no matter if the readings are good. Be sure that whatever you end up doing, you do a 50-75% waterchange after your cycle, and before you add any critters to your tank. For further info on tank cycling read the Guide in my signature.

Myka, thank you for the feedback. I use ELOS Aqua test kit for Ammonia and Nitrite, Red Sea test kit for pH and ALK. i use reef crystals Salt for my water. I just did another test, ph at 8.4, Alk 2.9, NO2 at every close to zero and NH3/4 is also zero.

As per your suggestion, i will wait for another 2 weeks before adding Livestock into my tank. You guys are great help. Thank you.