On May 31, 10:34*pm, (T r u L u) wrote:
My Nitrates are testing low. Does that mean a tank is cycled? I say NO,
because Ammonia is present. *

Lu

Better read up on what a low nitrate reading means Lu! You can still
have ammonia in a cycled tank if its overloaded and in which case it
wil never get cycled and always have ammonia content and nitrate
levels as well as other readings for nitrite.

Your concept of cycled would only really be true and valid if it was
taken from a unstocked tank or a tank with a minimum and I say MINIMUM
fish load. Hard to get any grasp of a cycled tank when its overstocked
to b egin with.