Cycling, Day 6
Tested my water today. Here are the results:
Test results on 24/01/2015, approximately 20 hours after the last addition of pureed seafood mix.
Ammonia: 1ppm
Nitrite: 0.5ppm
Nitrate: 40ppm
Phosphate: 10.0ppm (or more)
pH: 8
kH: 9
Calcium: 620ppm
Ammonia has decreased significantly (as expected), nitrite has risen, but not as much as expected. Could be that there is just some extra nitrite that has yet to be able to be converted into nitrate. Because nitrate has also rose as well. To 40ppm. Phosphate is still 10ppm or more, so still very high.
pH and kH remain stable, calcium is exactly the same as tested on the first day (yesterday's test may be a false reading). If the next few readings of calcium is still the same, I will chalk yesterday's test to human error. Otherwise, it is a bit worrying.
More importantly - or rather, more interestingly, my macroalgae has developed more nodules. Take a look:
Nodules pointed to in black. Any ideas?
Original photo for comparison/reference.
So yeah, I still have no idea what it could be, except that there's more and more of 'em.
If anyone know with certainty, let me know. I talked to someone yesterday and it could be galls/tumor growths/basically from infection, but still not certain.
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