Well its been 8 days since I started my cycle and it seems as if I am done. I started off by bumping ammonia to 5ppm by adding pure ammonia. Then I added a bottle of bio-spira and then 48 hours after that I started adding microbacter7 daily as per directions. Now my readings are as follows.
Ammonia - 0
Nitrites - 0
Nitrates - 1
It seems in my rush to get my display tank setup I managed to skip the part of quarantine tank. So I just rushed and put one together.
10g tank
Glass top(no jumpers getting out)
100w heater
Marineland penguin 100(kinda noisy for a little power filter) filled with sponge
sponge filter and air pump
small powerhead
thermometer
Will add some pvc elbows when I find them
Have added ammonia to 5ppm to get cycle started.
Temperature set to 78. stable at 77.9
Salinity at 1.026
Added a bottle of bio-spira.
Anyone think another sponge filter would be good for a permanent QT tank? or enough bio filtration as is for a 10g tank?