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I just stuck some fish food in a stocking... the ammonia got up to 8ppm, it was the highest reading on my test kit (API) and the nitrite got upto 5ppm, then the nitrat got up to almost as high as it could hen everything started to fall except the nitrate... i'll def do the ammonia thing though...

Thanks very much for your reply's. I did the fishless cycle without using ammonia so i think i may leave it for a bit before i add fishes and use ammonia for a lil while, i dont want to risk lil fishes dying when i get them. where do you get it from and how much should i put in? thanks again :)

Sooooo I've been doing a fishless cycle for about 3 weeks now. I did a water test today and my ammonia levels have dropped to somewhere between 0 and 0.25ppm, my nitrite levels have dropped to 0ppm, my nitrate levels are at 80ppm and my PH is at 8.2. Is 8.2 too high? also, where do i go from...

also thanks for the link to the fishless cycle page, very very helpful :)

Thanks very much for your quick replies and advice, I can stop panicking now hehe. I have the fish food tied up in some tights, its not floating round the tank if that makes any difference at all so hopefully its a bacterial bloom, i shall keep all possible bits crossed and keep testing :)...

hey everybody, im new here and just wanting some advice... I started my tank up about 5 days ago, I washed the stones and plastic plants thoroughly and I've put a few live plants in there. I used a water conditioner initially as I was using tap water. Since then I've been using seachem...