Jobin13
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hey all,
My brother recently gave me a 55 g tank. It has a marineland 350b filter on it. Heater is set to 80 degrees. The tank has been running for 3.5 weeks now, and my ammonia level has not dropped. I've added Stability to it, and ended up using the entire bottle (I originally used the recommended dosage but bumped it up to double when nothing happened after the 3rd week). Since that my ammonia levels have never dropped or even moved... I went and got Special Blend Microbe lift hoping that would help. I find it hard to believe my ammonia levels would shock the bacteria right out of the bottle. I've tested my water probably 100 times in the past weeks and the results are always very similar.
Ammonia: .5-1ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0 ppm
pH: 7.2-7.4
kH: 3
gH:2
I'm also in the process of re-cycling a 6 gal and a 40g breeder and they are doing fine. the 55 doesn't have fish but the other two tanks do. I wanted to do fishless cycling because it's the "humane" thing to do but I'm having difficulty... Recommendations?
My brother recently gave me a 55 g tank. It has a marineland 350b filter on it. Heater is set to 80 degrees. The tank has been running for 3.5 weeks now, and my ammonia level has not dropped. I've added Stability to it, and ended up using the entire bottle (I originally used the recommended dosage but bumped it up to double when nothing happened after the 3rd week). Since that my ammonia levels have never dropped or even moved... I went and got Special Blend Microbe lift hoping that would help. I find it hard to believe my ammonia levels would shock the bacteria right out of the bottle. I've tested my water probably 100 times in the past weeks and the results are always very similar.
Ammonia: .5-1ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0 ppm
pH: 7.2-7.4
kH: 3
gH:2
I'm also in the process of re-cycling a 6 gal and a 40g breeder and they are doing fine. the 55 doesn't have fish but the other two tanks do. I wanted to do fishless cycling because it's the "humane" thing to do but I'm having difficulty... Recommendations?