Recent content by Goonermatt

Thanks all. Will try large pwc and an ammonia redose tomorrow and see what results come of that.

Am I close to being cycled? I'm now on day 25 of my fishless cycle in my 10g. Yesterdays tests showed 0.25 ammonia, 1.0 nitrite and 80 nitrate. Added ammonia and retested at 4.0. Today's test again shows 0.25 ammonia with 0.5 nitrite and 40 nitrate. So it is getting rid of the ammonia pretty...

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Didn't really see a spike on no2. Did first test for it at 4 days when it read 5ppm, it remained the same for 3 days before dropping to 1 ppm on day 9 (yesterday) Will do a large pwc now as suggested by Bigjim and see what I get tomorrow. That should give me a definite answer if the ammonia...

Ok....... Advice please I am only on day 10 now of my fishless cycle and have just done a test on my parameters and get the following readings: Ammonia 0.25ppm Nitrite 0ppm Nitrate 40ppm Why would there be no nitrites and don't you need the nitrates to convert the ammonia? I have not done a...

Update..... Things seem to be going smoothly enough. In last 36 hours ammonia has dropped from 4ppm to 1ppm with nitrite remaining at 5ppm and nitrate at 80ppm. Am I right in thinking that if ammonia gets too low I should add a little extra to keep feeding the nitrites?

Really like that! Great job

How much would it drop by?

I got our tank for my kids with some ornamental seahorses, bubbly sea diver and fake plants. However now the novelty has worn off for them these things are gradually getting replaced for more natural looking items (some nice slate and piece of bog wood picked up from LFS). No real plants yet...

Same results... Ammonia around 6-7ppm Nitrite 5ppm Nitrate about 80ppm (to be fair could be closer to 40 because chart colours are very similar) Using API liquid. So, assuming these parameters are correct, what should I see happening soon?

I did give it a good shake but will do a retest now I think. Results to follow shortly....

Ah! Just remembered I added nutrafin cycle on day 1 as well as the ammonia. Would this explain it? If so was I right to do it?

Hi Started my fishless cycle in my 10 gallon tank just four days ago. I read up on the cycling for dummies thread on here so on first day I put in ammonia purchased from local hardware store and tested with API liquid and level was about 6-7ppm for first two days running. Didn't test on day...

Was also thinking about going for smaller fish with less of a bioload. I know very little about types of fish so would welcome any recommendations for such a small tank

Hi all Ok, so I had my first 10g tank for about 10 weeks with two comet goldfish and both have now died (because I knew nothing about cycling, etc). I am not going to let this unpleasant experience put me off and now that I have picked up good advice and tips from AA I am confident of doing a...