Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

What exactly is synthetic water may I ask?

 

oh yea i also have a emperor 400 powerfilter on the tank and visitherm 200w heater

 

not really sure, i went to the lfs to buy their ro/di water but they call it synthetic :/ readings were pretty good on the first day though

 

Have you tested your water for ammonia and/or nitrite? If you don't have either, you may need to add something to start the cycle.

 

i forget if i posted the readings for the first day but if i didn't here they are:

Test Results Day 1:
Salanity- 1.025
NO2- 0.05
PH-8.6
Alkalinity-normal 1.7-2.8
Nitrate-0
Ammonia-was a blue color, chart didn't have that color? i guess it was high and off the charts then

i plan to test again on saturday

 

Cool. So they take Hydrogen and Oxygen, and bond the atoms in the back room? Nifty LFS to actually create their own (synthetic) water.;D

 

Sounds like you have a good cycle started. Once your ammonia starts going down, you really only need to test for nitrite until you have 0 nitrites, then your cycle should be done and you can check everything one last time to make sure. No need to use up other tests while cycling.

 

haha they actually had a HUGE water machine *don't know what the actuall name is* but they had it up front for both saltwater and freshwater, freshwater was of course separate

 

ok, if i don't need to use al of the tests every time i test, that's good because it takes me probably half an hour to test, but i try to do more than one testing at a time

 

When I added my rock and started the cycle I was getting impatient also. My rocks looked just like you have described yours and there was nothing much to see. Thats when I started reading these forums and other info on the web (and found out I didn't need to run all those tests every day...lol) then one day as the nitrite was coming down I found a small feather duster worn on one of my rocks! I was so excited I was running around the house to tell everyone to come and see it! Basically I acted like a little kid on Christmas morning...lol.

It's been about a month since my cycle finished and it still still alive!