Tank cycling seems off....

[ty.]

I started cycling a new tank, and have been surprised that the ammonia has still yet to spike.

About 2 weeks ago I started up the tank with crushed coral and live sand and added live rock. On Monday, I added a market shrimp and tested the water today expecting a major ammonia spike. The shrimp is deteriorating, but ammonia seemed pretty low. I retested the ammonia again and got the same result.

I'm using the API test. This is a 2 gallon tank.

Is it possible that the tank has already progressed that much that the ammonia hasn't spiked with a decomposing shrimp in the tank?

Pics below...

 

[ty.]

shrimp

 

[KSC]

If you used live sand and live rock there is probably enough bacteria in the tank to process that shrimp. Put 2 more in....

 

[phg1960]

Small tank, live rock and live sand. It may have passed. What sort of readings are you getting for nitrite and nitrate?

 

[frank180reef]

Might depend on the quality of rock

 

[Owen386]

Looks fine to me with use of lr/LS what's u reading trites ?

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