it should of instant cycled?

[bigbanker]

New 95g tank. Took the hob from 55g added dechorlinated tap water. Also running a used wet dry filter on it.
Testing 4pmm ammo and 20 nitrates and no nitrites. What gives?

 

[jetajockey]

I'm guessing you are dosing ammonia? Or did you add fish?

 

[smomus]

Where it is going to a much larger tank, I would say that you need to give the bb a chance to catch up. Keep the ammo up and give it a few days

 

[bigbanker]

Actually neither... no fish or dosing in the tank. Just water

 

[jetajockey]

Wow. Test the water straight from the tap? If it doesn't have ammonia in it then something may have come in with the used filter(s)

 

[bigbanker]

Good point I didn't think it could have been the hob... maybe wet dry. Tap tested in at .25 this morning

 

[jetajockey]

I'd probably do some big wc's to drop the ammonia levels down personally. I know some people like to cycle at 4ppm but I honestly don't think that most biofilters under an average fish load are converting 4ppm on a daily basis, so to me it's overkill.

 

[bigbanker]

Went out and bought new solution. Ammonia test was bad. we are cycled!