The ammonia finally dropped overnight in my 75g start-up. We're in our fourth week.
Ammonia came down overnight from the 4 to 8 range to 0.5 to 1.0 range. Yeah, its not gone, but that's a huge relief after seeing it at 20 or so for a week straight. I cut the sample for testing with 50% tap water, than 80% tap water to interpolate tank water values. Sure, rough guesses, but the tester only went to 8.0, so I couldn't guage how high it really was after that. I'd say it went well over 20ppm for about 5 straight days.
Nitrites started taking off a few days ago, it used to take several minutes for the color in the tubes to get to 1 or 2, now its instantly at the peak reading, 5.0. I might do the trick again with splitting the sample with tap water (which reads 0 nitrites), to get a feel for the overall curve of the cycle.
Nitrates are still low, between 10 and 20ppm.
Hopefully the nitrite cycle won't take as long to get moving, I think my damsels are getting tired of the 10g they're in.
PS - used both Cycle, and Biozyme, at different points over the last 3 weeks, with no results whatsoever. Not sure how they can sell that stuff.
Ammonia came down overnight from the 4 to 8 range to 0.5 to 1.0 range. Yeah, its not gone, but that's a huge relief after seeing it at 20 or so for a week straight. I cut the sample for testing with 50% tap water, than 80% tap water to interpolate tank water values. Sure, rough guesses, but the tester only went to 8.0, so I couldn't guage how high it really was after that. I'd say it went well over 20ppm for about 5 straight days.
Nitrites started taking off a few days ago, it used to take several minutes for the color in the tubes to get to 1 or 2, now its instantly at the peak reading, 5.0. I might do the trick again with splitting the sample with tap water (which reads 0 nitrites), to get a feel for the overall curve of the cycle.
Nitrates are still low, between 10 and 20ppm.
Hopefully the nitrite cycle won't take as long to get moving, I think my damsels are getting tired of the 10g they're in.
PS - used both Cycle, and Biozyme, at different points over the last 3 weeks, with no results whatsoever. Not sure how they can sell that stuff.
Should only be another week or two now.
