Recent content by Laurakecken09

I’m ready for the switch. What’s next for the fish IN cycle? Let ammonia go back to zero? Water change? Then fish? Or water change..watch ammonia decrease then fish?

Oh great. So just keep continuing to dose ammonia?

Dosed with ammonia up to 2ppm yesterday. Checked it a couple hours later and it was indeed 2ppm. Just checked it this morning and it’s still 2ppm and zero nitrites. I didn’t check nitrates.

Patience is not my virtue! I will get back to you tomorrow

Yes I am. I’ll have to double check and read my bottle. Thank you! I’ll update tomorrow if you’re still vested ?

Okay I will dose again. I only know the Dr. Tim’s guidelines…how do I know I’m doing ppm?

So would you recommend dosing the ammonia and then seeing how it moves it along and then adding fish? Or should I add 3-4 tetras to give that ammonia source?

But my nitrite is 0? And I haven’t done a water change in about a week. I added about 2 gallons of water to my tank because it looked a bit low. My issue is that my nitrite was 2 then went to 0 from a period of 8 hours WITH the addition of 2 gallons. So far it has consistently stayed 0.

So the reason for the fishless cycle is because this initially started as a 5 gallon fish tank for my 4 year old to a 25 gallon hobby for me ? In the beginning we killed about 6 fish and then started some in depth research regarding the fishless cycle. We made a stop into a fish store one day...

Checked my levels this morning. pH 8.4, ammonia 0.25, nitrite 0, nitrate 10-20

Initially I was dosing with the Dr. Tim’s instructions. I was getting >5 then. I haven’t dosed with ammonia since 3/16. I haven’t done the cycling out thing because this is the first time I’ve had my nitrite go down.

Fishless

Hi! I’ve been cycling my 25 gallon freshwater tank for 2.5 weeks now. This tank is also planted. Had ammonia spike, nitrite spike and nitrates. Checked the levels this morning..0 ammonia, 2 nitrites, 10-20 nitrates..felt like my tank water was a tad low so I added two gallons of water. Treated...