Ammonia and Fish-less Cycle

[Koppriecht]

Hello

I am trying to cycle my 110 gallon tank to put some African Cichlids in it. I have powdered ammonia which I got from a fish-less cycle kit from Aquaponic Source. I put enough into the tank to reach 4 ppm. However, the kit said to add ammonia as it drops but mine isn't dropping. It has been at 4ppm for 6+ days. I added 8 ounces of Dr. Tim's One and Only on the first day so I thought the ammonia should have dropped by now.

My readings right now are:

Temp: 84
pH: 8.2
Ammonia: 4 ppm
Nitrite: 2 ppm
Nitrate: 10 ppm
GH 2
KH 16

Do I just need to be patient?

 

[dalto]

It is fairly odd that you have 2ppm of nitrite but your ammonia hasn't dropped.

I mean it looks like things are going fine just from the numbers.

 

[RadMax8]

Agreed, you can't really have nitrite without some of the ammonia being metabolized. Is it possible that you added more than 4 ppm ammonia?

 

[Koppriecht]

These are my tests from today. I never had the Ammonia at a darker green but I didn't test it right away, maybe for 2 days, but when I first tested it was at 2ppm so I added more ammonia powder.

 

[shaft6977]

I had the same thing happen to me. I just added more bacteria and waited a few days and it started going down.