Cycling question

[Sir Alex]

So I have had my tank cycling for 2 weeks now and my Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate are all 0 ppm. I had a spike of ammonia about 10 days ago. Does this mean I'm done cycling? It's seams very fast.

 

[Ingy]

If your nitrate is zero then you've had no cycle. What is your ammonia source?

 

[Florio]

If your nitrate is zero then you've had no cycle. What is your ammonia source?

Well he/she had an ammonia spike so he had some kind of source, same thing happens to me when I finished cycle. I had no or close to any nitrate.

I think your good to go.

 

[Sir Alex]

I had fish and over feed to get more ammonia from the food decaying

 

[Florio]

Ya then I think your all done, go for it.

 

[Ingy]

If he had an ammonia spike 4 days after starting solely by over feeding fish, resulting in zero nitrates, he needs to patent the procedure. More likely he had a false positive reading for ammonia with a low end test kit like API.

 

[Florio]

If he had an ammonia spike 4 days after starting solely by over feeding fish, resulting in zero nitrates, he needs to patent the procedure. More likely he had a false positive reading for ammonia with a low end test kit like API.

Ya I don't know, that's interesting. But he did have fish and its a small tank. I got my spike roughly 6 days after getting my tank set up with fish.

Well I started to get ammonia.

 

[spiketooth]

Agreed if there was a ammo spike, then there be a nitrite spike then nitrate readings. Nitrite can be one of the longest part in the cycling process

 

[Florio]

Agreed if there was a ammo spike, then there be a nitrite spike then nitrate readings. Nitrite can be one of the longest part in the cycling process

I never got mine :s I had ammonia, never saw any nitrite, and i hardly saw any nitrate.

But I put fish in and had no problem when it happened to me.

Hopefully their not using the test strips.

 

[spiketooth]

Well if its not cycled and you put fish in it. Just watch your levels and do water changes as needed

 

[Florio]

Well if its not cycled and you put fish in it. Just watch your levels and do water changes as needed

Yeah I agree, put in some hardy fish just in case.

 

[54seaweed]

some have short cycles I'm on day 8 with maybe a day or so more
I've seen some tanks cycle fast others that took 6/8 weeks