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So its been about a week and a half since tank startup. My ammonia level has gone down to .50ppm. My nitrite has reached 5 ppm and nitrate is still 0. Going to start dosing my tank with pure ammonia in the next day or so. Just wanted to get some thoughts on my progress. From what I've been...

Yes the ammonia is just from my tapwater

I like the driftwood idea too

Yea I'm starting to see the large rock as overpowering as well. I might keep it in there until my cycle is complete. I plan on starting a large tank soon, possibly a 60 gallon so I might use it in the new tank to establish new beneficial bacteria

Thanks! And I definately wanna do a backround, and get some plants.

Thank you for the info. I've been doing research and understand the cycle a lot better.

Had my tank up and running for almost a week now. Thinking about getting rid of the big rock later and going to some smaller ones and live plants eventually. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreaciated (excuse the pic quality)

Sorry for the late response, and thanks i will look into their database.

And I'm assuming the best way to get my ammonia level to 0 ppm would be to do partial water changes every so often?

No its not a fish in cycle

So I'm a few days into my startup n the 10 gallon. The cloudiness has definately gone down and is continuing to. Did my first water tests today. Its been about two days since I started it up. These are my test results pH: 7.6 Ammonia: 2.0 ppm And nitrite and nitrate are both at 0 ppm Looking...

Did your filter tend to kick up any of the sand and did it make it worse?

Cool! Hopefully it works the same for me!

Thanks rinsing again. Helped a good amount. I can actually see my rock now x)

Yes it is play sand