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Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Recap.
Have a small 26L tank. This has been cycling for seven weeks now. It is planted. (half the plants died, or started dying before I replaced the bulb with a plant friendly on).
Cycling using Ammonia. (9% from homebase).
After a couple of weeks, I oversdosed on the ammonia. The value never dropped below 8ppm for like a week. I was starting to see nitrites. So I did a 75% water change to bring the ammonia level down to something I could measure.
For the next few weeks, this was going between 2 and 4 ppm. Then I noticed I had a snail in the tank.
For the last two and a half weeks, I haven't added any ammonia. The level is ping-ponging between 2 and 4 ppm. I'm not seeing any nitrites registering at all.
I am removing about 5 or 6 little snails each day.
I spoke to my LFS and they said I have pond snails and to get an assassin snail to sort the pond snails out.
I might get an assassin snail at the weekend.
So I'm worried that I haven't had to add ammonia for over two weeks and my ammonia level is high. Has my cycle stalled or are the snails just producing a lot of poo?
Any suggestions?
Have a small 26L tank. This has been cycling for seven weeks now. It is planted. (half the plants died, or started dying before I replaced the bulb with a plant friendly on).
Cycling using Ammonia. (9% from homebase).
After a couple of weeks, I oversdosed on the ammonia. The value never dropped below 8ppm for like a week. I was starting to see nitrites. So I did a 75% water change to bring the ammonia level down to something I could measure.
For the next few weeks, this was going between 2 and 4 ppm. Then I noticed I had a snail in the tank.
For the last two and a half weeks, I haven't added any ammonia. The level is ping-ponging between 2 and 4 ppm. I'm not seeing any nitrites registering at all.
I am removing about 5 or 6 little snails each day.
I spoke to my LFS and they said I have pond snails and to get an assassin snail to sort the pond snails out.
I might get an assassin snail at the weekend.
So I'm worried that I haven't had to add ammonia for over two weeks and my ammonia level is high. Has my cycle stalled or are the snails just producing a lot of poo?
Any suggestions?