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Aquarium Advice Apprentice
So I have a 29g tank, freshwater currently doing the fishless cycling and not sure if I'm just not being patient enough or if something is stalling things for me.
Set up tank almost 4 weeks ago, have gravel substrate, fake plants and some decorations/hiding places for fish in there. Rinsed all things before putting in the tank with tap water. Filled tank, added dechlorinator, let sit for a few days until I found some Ammonia.
Fresh tank specs were pH 7.4 Temp ~82F, Ammonia/ites/Ates 0
Added my Ace Hardware Ammonia according to a webpage (which I can't find anymore if anyone has the link to what I may have used) that you punch in the concentration of ammonia you have and the size of your tank to give you the appropriate ammonia mL to get you to 3-5ppm.
I am really bad at trying to decipher shades of green for Ammonia on the API Master test kit, but I thought my Ammonia was between the 2ppm and 4ppm. And that's the shade of green it has stayed for the last three weeks.
Today is exactly 3 weeks since I added the ammonia, have been checking ammonia and periodically nitrites with no changes. Am I missing something? pH is still 7.4, Temp is still right around 82F, water is a little low so that the filter drops lots of bubbles, I even added some microscopic fish food flakes this weekend in desperation.
Attached is two images of my API test kit results from tonight just for verification. Am I just being impatient? Unfortunately I don't have any friends with tanks around here to get seed material from. Thanks in advance!
Set up tank almost 4 weeks ago, have gravel substrate, fake plants and some decorations/hiding places for fish in there. Rinsed all things before putting in the tank with tap water. Filled tank, added dechlorinator, let sit for a few days until I found some Ammonia.
Fresh tank specs were pH 7.4 Temp ~82F, Ammonia/ites/Ates 0
Added my Ace Hardware Ammonia according to a webpage (which I can't find anymore if anyone has the link to what I may have used) that you punch in the concentration of ammonia you have and the size of your tank to give you the appropriate ammonia mL to get you to 3-5ppm.
I am really bad at trying to decipher shades of green for Ammonia on the API Master test kit, but I thought my Ammonia was between the 2ppm and 4ppm. And that's the shade of green it has stayed for the last three weeks.
Today is exactly 3 weeks since I added the ammonia, have been checking ammonia and periodically nitrites with no changes. Am I missing something? pH is still 7.4, Temp is still right around 82F, water is a little low so that the filter drops lots of bubbles, I even added some microscopic fish food flakes this weekend in desperation.
Attached is two images of my API test kit results from tonight just for verification. Am I just being impatient? Unfortunately I don't have any friends with tanks around here to get seed material from. Thanks in advance!