I did it... I'm happy! And feel as if I achieved something.
Set up my 10 gallon quarrentine tank with a pure ammonia fishless cycle.
Had my big spikes, then the drop off in ammonia while trites stayed high, then after about 4 days of dosing ammonia and trites still high, the trites dropped. Exactly what was supposed to happen.
Then I made it through with dosing ammonia and nitrites and ammonia were at 0 after 3 days in a row, did a big water change, used a bit of Prime of course, waited 24 hours, tested again. O... put in my psychotic danio as my test fish yesterday (I'm too nervous to use my 12 baby Cherry Barbs), and we're still at zero today!
YAY!
Fishless cycle works - took about 2 weeks.
WORTH IT!
Now on to my 72 gallon fishless cycle. I received my filter (Fluval FX5) yesterday...
Same thing - bigger scale!
Janelle
Set up my 10 gallon quarrentine tank with a pure ammonia fishless cycle.
Had my big spikes, then the drop off in ammonia while trites stayed high, then after about 4 days of dosing ammonia and trites still high, the trites dropped. Exactly what was supposed to happen.
Then I made it through with dosing ammonia and nitrites and ammonia were at 0 after 3 days in a row, did a big water change, used a bit of Prime of course, waited 24 hours, tested again. O... put in my psychotic danio as my test fish yesterday (I'm too nervous to use my 12 baby Cherry Barbs), and we're still at zero today!
YAY!
Fishless cycle works - took about 2 weeks.
WORTH IT!
Now on to my 72 gallon fishless cycle. I received my filter (Fluval FX5) yesterday...
Same thing - bigger scale!
Janelle