Are fishless cycles supposed to take this long?

The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
It could be the pH, but in my other tank the levels are manageable.
 
I shoved the current little filter in next to the bigger one in my 10gal for a few days before starting.
 
Are you continuously dosing ammonia? If it stays at 3 ppm try not dosing any more until it gets down to 1.

There's another myth that BB die within a few days of not having food, but that's not true. I believe it was Threnjen that showed links to articles proving that BB can live for a month or more without food. It was a long time ago so maybe it was someone else.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top Bottom