I find myself in a bit of a situation. I have a new 55 gallon tank cycling with my new Eheim filter. At this point it can process at least 4 ppm ammonia, but so far no evidence of processing nitrite.
I need to go out of town this weekend... about 2500 miles... Friday morning until Tuesday morning. Not really avoidable due to family emergency.
I did start with seed material, so this is only about 8 days in, but I don't want to lose this progress as I really would like to move fish into this tank soon. I just bought a house, and the new tank is cycling over there so that I can move fish from my 75 gallon before I move the tank, thereby avoiding sticking largish fish in buckets for many hours while I move the tank, so I have a time limit on finishing the cycle in order to be able to follow through on that plan.
Anyone have recommendations on how to keep the cycle going while I can't dose ammonia for almost five days? Options that come to mind are throwing in a couple frozen shrimp, or doing a 95% water change to lower the nitrite and adding a fistful of feeders. Any other ideas?
I need to go out of town this weekend... about 2500 miles... Friday morning until Tuesday morning. Not really avoidable due to family emergency.
I did start with seed material, so this is only about 8 days in, but I don't want to lose this progress as I really would like to move fish into this tank soon. I just bought a house, and the new tank is cycling over there so that I can move fish from my 75 gallon before I move the tank, thereby avoiding sticking largish fish in buckets for many hours while I move the tank, so I have a time limit on finishing the cycle in order to be able to follow through on that plan.
Anyone have recommendations on how to keep the cycle going while I can't dose ammonia for almost five days? Options that come to mind are throwing in a couple frozen shrimp, or doing a 95% water change to lower the nitrite and adding a fistful of feeders. Any other ideas?