Ray replied:
> While any higher ammonia level is more stressful
> to your fish, at a much lower level (such as
> your 0.25 ppm), it will take "forever" to cycle your
> tank since there's little food for the nitrobacters
> to consume and grow (multiply) on.
I am going to have to disagree with this. If you can measure ammonia, then there is an excess of it in the water, more that the current bacteria population can handle. Therefore it would seem reasonable that the bacteria would have plenty to consume and will multiple at whatever their maximum rate is for the conditions. Since bacteria can only multiple at a constant rate putting even more ammonia in the water shouldn't have any effect of the rate at which they multiply. So keeping the ammonia levels low, but still measurable on a standard hobbyist grade test kit, should not effect cycle time.
Regards,
Patrick
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