Should I add a 2nd shrimp to Cycling Tank?

I can't prove ANYTHING, but I use SuperBac whenever I set up a tank.

Don't put too much shrimp in there. Not another whole one, anyway. But eventually you'll put a shrimp in there and you won't test positive at any point for ammonia while it decays.

 

The other one mentioned should be fine, I kind of like this one; Tropical Science Biolabs - Makers of Nitromax

 

Ok I don't think my tank is ready for CUC yet. The tank is either SLOWLY cycling or did a mini cycle of sorts.
I don't have live rock and the live sand's life was questionable to me, so the shrimp might have been the only source of ammonia. I've posted my tank log again with updated numbers from today.



Ammonia "peaked" at 1.0 and is slowly dropping, today it's .25.
Nitrite is 1.00 has been there for 6 days.
Nitrate is 15, the color looked between 10 & 20.

Unless 1.0 is a good peak for ammonia I'm leaning toward adding some source of ammonia. I can't seem to find the bottled stuff so it might be another shrimp or a small CUC if this would be okay after looking at my water parameters.

Any one know what might be going on with my cycle? Any additional advice?

Thanks for all your help.

DarkHorseMBA

 

Seem mighty strange to me that a shrimp basically just fell apart in the tank and you only saw a spike of 1.0. How often where you testing.

If it was my tank, I was not planning to stock it until later in November I would just throw a small amount of fish food in every couple days, until you get the cuc. The decaying fish food will keep the bacteria happy

 

I'm testing every 2-3 days.

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He may have enough established bacteria to consume the ammonia. Depends on the rock.

 

I have 80lbs of dry rock from reefcleaners.org. Great rock, but not live.


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I did not think that 1.0 ammonia was enough. Added shrimp to the Refugium, I'll leave it there until I see a real spike.


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