aprlshwrs
Aquarium Advice Regular
I'm cycling my 29g tank by dosing it with ammonia. Pretty much, every day, I've been dosing it as the ammonia seems to drop each day to 0. However, the nitrites were measuring between 1 and 2 ppms and the nitrates were measuring between 20-80ppms. However, today, as I went to check it everything measured as 0...ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. Actually, the nitrates could be between 0 and 5ppm but it really looks like 0 to me. My question...what happened to the nitrates? Aren't they supposed to be much higher? Did I do something wrong? Why is everything 0? I was so puzzled that I redid the test and got the same results.
I'm not thinking the tank is cycled yet.... but this really baffles me. Any thoughts or help?
I'm not thinking the tank is cycled yet.... but this really baffles me. Any thoughts or help?