funkincredible
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ok heres the situation: i have a 55 that i am trying to cycle. i have about 4 inches of sand bed, and maybe like 10-15 lbs of live rock that had already come out of a cycled tank. i have 2 damsles, originally 3 but one died, i just left it in there to help get a spike. Its just not happening though. i added the fish around july 25th or so. after the first couple of days the levels have staye about the same. amonia has stayed about .5, nitrite about .15 and nitrate right around 5. ph has been a constant 8.2 and SG is constant as well. i am getting a super ammount of brown colored algae all over, and all i am cleaning is the glass. is it better for the tank to spike high on everything, or will this pansy constant stuff do a good enough job?