nitrification cycle

[jbdreefs]

I'm painfully waiting for some rock to cure. I've detected amonia since Monday. I keep waiting for the nitrites to start spiking but they haven't yet. However, I may have just started detecting nitrates? Any chance that the process of converting ammonia to nitrites happens much slower than converting nitrites to nitrates? I'm just wondering if i will ever see the nitrite spike.

If i don't see more progress soon, I may try using peroxide like another member suggested.

 

[cr500_af]

I can't speak for all cases, but in my tank's case the ammonia dropped a lot before nitrite showed up on the test. Then, nitrite dropped a lot before nitrate was measurable.

If you can still detect ammonia, you're not near done. If ammonia is zero, and nitrite is zero, I'd still feel safer waiting a little bit and seeing several repeated tests showing 0 nitrite and measurable nitrate before I called it good.