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Haha good :) Merry Christmas to. You all as well :)

Thank you :) today the nitrites read .25, and I dosed up to around 3ppm yesterday, so I think your right, I'm almost there :)

Yea I misread the post lol. I thought continuing from the earlier questions that they were asking what the nitrates look like when the cycle is complete. I didn't connect the the dots with the adding fish part and I should have added the big wc. Good thing you guys were on top of it :)

Probly a pretty dark red, >80 ppm. It's off my chart high

I've been testing every morning around 9am, nitrites have showed off the charts every morning, business as usual. This weekend I was gone for the night, and didn't do my tests til the next evening, about 36 hours apart. Nitrites and ammonia showed zero. Checked again 24 hours later and nitrites...

O ammonia, o nitrites and high nitrates and it's cycled if I understand correctly.

Apparently it was a false reading last night. I did my usual tests tonight (24 hrs later) and nitrites were off the charts again :( Im gonna leave it and let it go for 36 hours to try to replicate the results of yesterday, then get back on my morning routine tomorrow. That was the only thing I...

I think after about 2weeks, my fishless cycle is complete :) I checked and adjusted religiously every morning around 9am, and we had to leave town Friday night, so I didn't get to check Saturday morning's reading until about 9pm Saturday night, and had an early Christmas present of 0 ammonia, 0...

Thank you very much :) and I didn't even think of that, so bonus lol

Thanks :) The gravel that's there now is that rocky stuff walmart sells: It seems pretty smooth, but it could also see it being a bit abrasive too? Thankfully I only have about an inch and a half in there, so I don't think it'd be too difficult to get the majority of it pushed outta the...

Hi everyone. I am nearing the end of my fishless cycle (I'm saying that to be positive, I really have no. Idea how much longer I have lol), and am starting to plan what to stock for my 10 gallon tank. Dwarf Cory's seem to be high on the recommend list, and have really checked into em and just...

Awesome, thank you :) Would you say even if every day my nitrite test reads over 5 I should wc it down or should I wait til it really gets high? It's generally reads a little darker than the purple on the chart, so I've been recording it as simply >5 and changing the water out every other day...

Thanks for the advice! Do you not have problems with the fish's health or is it done so gradual there's not much impact on him? I know it's been done that way long before the fishless cycle came to be lol. It IS a lot of work this way, but it's been a lotta fun just watching things happen and...

Today's readings were the same, ammonia 0, nitrites off the charts, nitrates between 40-80

Thank you for the replies! That's all I can come up with is that I had plenty of bacteria that survived. It's the only thing that makes sense. I haven't checked readings this morning yet, but yesterday, my ammonia was 0, nitrites were off the charts, and nitrates were between 40-80 (hard to tell...

(The only exclamation point that is relevant is the very last one. I have no idea why it added them where it did. The water change was NOT that exciting, and neither was the fact that it was still high afterwards haha)

Hi everybody. This is my first fishless cycle, and it seems my readings are a little weird. Some pertinent info: It's a 10 gal tank, no live plants, it DID have fish in it a few months ago, but due to poor research on my part, they didn't survive the first week. Totally my fault. Thankfully I...