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Just bought my fish over the weekend. I got 3 Austrailian Rainbows and 6 long tailed gold zebra danios. They all seem pretty harmonious together and when I got them into the tank the danios seemed to stay together and play with themselves. I did notice Sunday night a couple hours from being in...

My ammonia has not dropped to 0 at all yet. I have never had nitrites or nitrates show up on any tests. But in the 3 weeks of cycling the ammonia does seem to have dropped a little bit (possibly around 2.0 - 3.0 ppm). I was just wondering what could be the cause of that with no signs of the...

Hi there again. Just wanted to know, I am currently in the middle of my 3rd week of my second attempt of cycling my tank and I am noticing a slow drop in ammonia (it appears to around 2 - 3 ppm). My question is is it possible at all for ammonia to drop without the presence of nitrites? Thank you

Just wanted to give an update. I did a 50% water change then waited about an hour after I finished filling the tank up to add dechlorinator and let the system run overnight. I just took an ammonia reading and it looks ALOT better. Results look closer to 4.0 ppm. Thank you for all your adbice.

]I decided to post today's results...I think the ammonia is still about 5.0 - 6.0

Thank you. I will keep testing for the next week or 2 and hopefully something good will come out of it.

Hi there. I just bought a new 60 gallon tank and although I am not new to the hobby, I am new to the world of fishless cycling. I started my fishless cycle back on October 4th and I was using the thread "fishless cycling for dummies" of this website (old thread found from a google search). My...