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Thank you for your reply! I am dosing up to 2 ppm. It will gradually drop to 0 but it takes a few days. Now, after I posted yesterday I tested my tap water for ammonia and it came back at 1.0. I read that the presence of chlorine/chloramine could read as ammonia. But chlorine/chloramine...

Hello, So, I have been doing a fishless cycle and I posted back in August. I have a 10 gallon tank. My nitrites are dropping to 0 in 24 hours and I am getting nitrates but for the life of me I cannot get my ammonia to drop in 24 hours to 0. It drops after I do water changes but should drop...

Thanks for all the guidance. I did the water change before I left and added some Quick Start. I returned and Ammonia has now dropped to 0 but Nitrites are stuck at 2.0 and my nitrates are at 20 ppm. Do I leave everything alone and add ammonia again once the nitrites are at 0? Or do I need to...

Thank you! I'll do the water change and check the levels before I leave.

Thank you so much! So, i put in extra drops of ammonia and now it is at 8.0 ppm :-[, 0 nitrites, and 5.0 nitrates. Obviously, I don't need to put in more ammonia but now I am going out of town and have no clue how to proceed from here. I will be back on Thursday. I appreciate all the help!

Hello everyone, After trying to do fishless cycling with fish food (flakes) and brine shrimp cubes, I switched to Dr. Tim's ammonia chloride last week. The problem I'm having is that the ammonia isn't spiking high enough. I watched some youtube videos stating it needs to spike 2-3 ppm first...

Wow!! Thank you for the tip. I will keep that in mind :-).

Thank you for the welcome! So glad I found this group!

Hello everyone, I am doing a fishless cycle with fish flakes and brine shrimp cubes, although I am about to try ammonium chloride. Nitrites and nitrates seem to be present, but my ammonia levels stay low. Anyway, fuzzy stuff is growing on my substrate and decor. Is this something I should be...

Thank you so much! This is quite helpful.

Advice Thank you for the welcome and the links to the resources. I definitely need some advice! So, I am attempting to do a fishless cycle using fish food flakes and brine shrimp cubes. I've been doing this for the past month and my ammonia levels haven't reached the 2 ppm-3ppm levels. I...

Hello! My name is Nicole and we just bought a 10 gallon tank for my 7 year old daughter. No fish yet! We are cycling the tank but I definitely feel like I have no idea what I am doing. I look forward to learning a lot from you guys!