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Thank you for your continued help. As I couldn't find any cheap tapwater filters for chloramine specifically, I decided to try a Pur tapwater filter available locally. From some research it seems chlorine is easier and cheaper to remove but chloramine is not. After setting up the tapwater filter...

I did 2 almost complete water changes last night (even tilting the tank to get as much water as possible from the bottom). Immediately after adding new, dechlorinated water, the Nitrites were 0 and I thought about buying and adding fish the next day for a fish-in cycle. However, when I tested...

I will look at doing a pretty massive water change soon with seachem prime as my conditioner, maybe more than once if my nitrites still go to max testable level immediately, and then lessening the amount and frequency of ammonia additions. In the past weeks no amount of water changes have been...

Thank you for your response. One large problem I'm having is that even when doing huge water changes (~80%) to reduce the nitrite level, as soon as I measure the levels after letting it sit for about 20 minutes they are immediately 5ppm after adding new water and not adding any ammonia, and the...

All of the advice (temperature and ppm for ammonia) I have been following from eco23's guide I linked. All of the guides I've read say to keep the temp between 82-85 for the cycle during a fishless cycle to help the bacteria grow quickly, and lower it to the ideal temperature of the animals...

I've been following Eco23's fishless cycling guide here: https://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f15/the-almost-complete-guide-and-faq-to-fishless-cycling-148283.html and I've been stuck on getting my nitrites to go down, I'm one month into the cycle. (ammonia cycles within 12 hours, but...

I have read in many cycling guides that seeding material from established aquariums can be extremely helpful, and that the bottled bacteria often sold doesn't work as it's not temperature controlled through the entire shipping and stocking process and could be held in near freezing and boiling...

I am in a similar predicament as the original poster (2 weeks into fishless cycle) however I have a very small aquarium (6 gallons with a sponge filter) where ammonia is cycling fine daily but nitrites seem stuck. I planned to only stock invertebrates in my tank due to the small size not...

I am currently fishless cycling a 6 gallon tank, I'm at the point where ammonia is processing properly within 12 hours and I'm adding ammonia daily to keep it above 0. The Nitrites have gone off the readable level (5ppm), I'm waiting for them to process to finish the cycle, and I've been keeping...

I've been following very closely the guide posted by eco23 here: https://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f15/the-almost-complete-guide-and-faq-to-fishless-cycling-148283.html for my small 6 gallon tank. I set up my tank with decorations/water/sponge filter/heater about 4 days before my ammonia...