Schlteacher
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Mar 27, 2014
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I have been fishless cycling my 45 gallon tank. I seemed to be making good progress at first - I got an old filter from a friend and had nitrate reading almost immediately. However, it seems to have stalled now - the nitrates keep getting higher, but I can't get the ammonia and nitrite down to 0. I've been dosing ammonia up to about 2.0 ppm daily and by the next day it's down to 0.25, but never 0. Nitrites also drop, but not enough. I tried doing a 50% water change about a week ago, but that didn't help any - the nitrites actually rose after that.
Am I doing something wrong? Or do I just need to be patient?
Am I doing something wrong? Or do I just need to be patient?