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[jakeandwendy]

i'm cycling with fish everything moving along fine. amm spiked, nitrites showed up, amm disappeared, nitrites below .5ppm for three days, no nitrates. today 0ppm 0ppm and 0ppm...? what happened? ph has been steady temp steady, fish seem healthy and happy. any thoughts?

 

[neilanh]

what size tank and what types and how many fish? It may be that your cycle did in fact finish, and you've just got such a small bioload that the nitrates just aren't detectable yet.

 

[Zagz]

Are you using the liquid tests? How long have you been cycling?

 

[jakeandwendy]

i'm actually doing my sisters tank along with mine. its a 10 gal long with two 2 inch cichlids from wal-store and a 1.5 inch kribensis cichlid from the lfs. its been cycling about 5 and a half weeks. liquid api fw masterkit tests

 

[Zagz]

You are planning on moving the cichlids soon right? That tank is too small for cichlids.

As for your cycle, either your cycle is complete and you will be seeing nitrates soon, or something caused your cycle to stall and will restart. How often have you been doing water changes?

 

[jakeandwendy]

yes they will be re-homed in about 6 months to a bigger tank doing 20% pwcs daily

 

[ejaramillo01]

if your readings are 0ppm of ammonia and nitrites, stop the daily water changes and move to a weekly

Then you will see the nitrates to show

 

[mfdrookie516]

Any plants in the tank? Plants use up nitrates. That could explain it if you do have plants.

 

[jakeandwendy]

no to the plants and yes to the weekly wc instead of daily