Hi everyone,
I started fishless cycling my tank about 6 weeks ago. I used tap safe and filter boost bacteria to kick start the cycle then fed the tank with fish flakes. My ammonia was reading 4.00ppm about 2 weeks ago then I was advised to do a water change by a FB group as wasn’t coming down but nitrites were zero and Nitrates were high? (60-80ppm) since the water change it’s been stuck at 0.25! I was advised to dose the tank with more ammonia to see if it cycled it out within 24 hours so added more flakes to break down but it’s not even managing to cycle the 0.25 so there’s no chance it’s going to be able to cope with more from what I can see? I even added more bacteria! What have I done wrong? TIA
I started fishless cycling my tank about 6 weeks ago. I used tap safe and filter boost bacteria to kick start the cycle then fed the tank with fish flakes. My ammonia was reading 4.00ppm about 2 weeks ago then I was advised to do a water change by a FB group as wasn’t coming down but nitrites were zero and Nitrates were high? (60-80ppm) since the water change it’s been stuck at 0.25! I was advised to dose the tank with more ammonia to see if it cycled it out within 24 hours so added more flakes to break down but it’s not even managing to cycle the 0.25 so there’s no chance it’s going to be able to cope with more from what I can see? I even added more bacteria! What have I done wrong? TIA