I am cycling my tank, I need some advice

[fishmanbrady]

I have a 50 gallon freshwater aquarium.

I plan on getting African Cichlids this upcoming Friday!

The problem is I have a level of in the middle of 2-4ppm ammonia, and 0.50ppm

How can I get them to 0 before Friday?

I have a product called Prime seachem which is supposed to take away ammonia and nitrate and I have a product called nutrafin, which is supposed to do the same I use them daily.

Should I do a 20% water change ever day? Or will that be bad? Thanks

 

[Mumma.of.two]

Are you dosing ammonia to cycle? How long has the tank been set up and cycling?

 

[fishmanbrady]

No, I have 4 Zebra Danios in my tank, they've been in there for two weeks, I had, 2 red tail harks, 3 tiger barbs, 2 roseline sharks, 4 clown loaches. All the clown loaches, roseline Sharks died, i then retured my red tails and tiger barbs. I then decided to go for african cichlids.

 

[Mumma.of.two]

I'm afraid to say you're not going to get the tank cycled by Friday unless you get a good amount of used/seeded filter media. If you have ammonia and no nitrIte then you are in the first stages of cycling. It can take 4-8 weeks all up.
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/artic...g-but-I-already-have-fish-What-now/Page2.html