Don't get those rays yet any way....your reading ammonia. Rays are far more sensitive to ammonia than most fish, and also produce 10× more ammonia than other fish the same weight
Ammonia and nitrites will rise and fall off to 0, nitrates will rise and continue rising until you start doing water changes.
Not necessarily, sometimes the ammonia and nitrite will spike and fall a few times before it levels out. If you can get consistent readings of zero for both over the course of a few days your good to go. Don't get in a hurry with rays. They will not survive if you put them in a tank that the filter isn't fully cycled. Do you have other tanks/sumps you can borrow cycled media out of? I always keep extra mesh bags of media in various sumps to fire up a new tank whenever I want to. Everyone should do this. I haven't had to cycle a tank in years
No I sold all my gear years ago and got the bug back so had to buy all new stuff and I've got till the 17th to pick the rays up is that enough time to cycle or not
Also with the readings I've got what point in the cycle do you think I'm at as I don't want to change anything incase I'm half way there or nearly done ?
One set of results isnt enough to determine. What have the readings been the last few times you checked?
Your probably getting close...check the parameters of your tap water. Make sure you don't have nitrate. If nitrate is 0 out of the tap, you are making headway.
