Why don't you add another hardy fish, sounds like you have enough bacteria to handle more fish, at least after 10 weeks you should be safe.

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"You Don't Get A Body Like This Waitin' For The Bus"

What do snails tell about water quality? I have never heard about that before. (yes, I am still relativly new to the hobby)

Originally posted by Staceon:
Yes you can not have a "cycle". I have done it before.

This may sound weird, but do you have snails? Just IMO snails are great indicators of water quality.

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"No TV and no beer make Homer go some thing something........" H.S.

My take is that snails are very sensetive to a drop in water quality...I also keep a count of my snails along with the blue leg hermits...at leats I try to...also for this reason. But strangely enough in my case, the blue legs seem to be just a tad more sensetive.

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Rob,
If the rock was cured you may not ever see a cucle......just let it run for a month or so longer [img]/ubb/frown.gif[/img]

Rob,
My guess would be you either missed the spike by testing every other day at first, or more likely, your ammonia test kit may be outdated or defective and by the time you verified with someone else your cycle had all ready taken place. As nitrates are last in the string, you had to have something make them.

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