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first u need to know whether ur cycle has been kicked off or not?

if so , u'll have ammonia spike, No2 spike and No3 spike during different stages of cycling.

when the time u get ammonia,no2,no3 = 0 , this considered ur cycling has completed.

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first u need to know whether ur cycle has been kicked off or not?

if so , u'll have ammonia spike, No2 spike and No3 spike during different stages of cycling.

when the time u get ammonia,no2,no3 = 0 , this considered ur cycling has completed.

not necessary ur nitrate must be 0.

as long as ur ammonia and nitrite is 0 after the spike should be okie le.

with that u must have good testkit to comfirm whether ur cycling is over

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my water is yellowish at first and smelly last week... then some worms came out.. then last night nitrate was high... this evening i check again nitrate is almost 0 and nitrite almost 0 too... ammonia not check yet. total cycle period is abt 1.5 weeks til date. i add a lot of bacteria starter, but is it possible cycling is done up within this 1.5 weeks already

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1 and a half weeks seem rather short, however it could be that the dosing of the bacteria starter helped alot.

are you using a dsb or de-nitrator ? seems queer that even nitrate can drop.

the way to test is to add an ammonia source again, either pure ammonia or decaying matter, if ammonia and no2 is 0 then cycle is complete, can do big water change and

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stock up fish at 1 fish per week.

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Its kind of impossible for nitrates to drop that fast if you ask me

Maybe you'd like to test again

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Try increasing your S.G. to 1.025

I'd wait about another week or two if I were you. Just to let everything stabilise and run smoothly B)

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