Use the shrimp method. Test ammonia daily till you see it spiking, then start testing for nitrite till it spikes and starts downward. You want the remove the shrimp (or what's left of it) after about a week when you see the ammonia getting up there.
Someone told me to get a rubber duckie if I needed to see something in my tank during the cycle. I didn't do that, but understood "nothing GOOD ever happens FAST in a salt water tank". Patience grasshopper.
Someone told me to get a rubber duckie if I needed to see something in my tank during the cycle. I didn't do that, but understood "nothing GOOD ever happens FAST in a salt water tank". Patience grasshopper.
