bosk1
Aquarium Advice FINatic
For those who have not been following my other thread, I am fishless cycling a 55 gallon. I seeded my tank with filter media from a friend's tank. My current levels are:
Ammonia: 2.0 (started cycle with 5.0 ppm pure ammonia)
Nitrites: 2.0
Nitrates: between 5 and 10.
The filter bag from my friend's tank does not fit in my filter, so I just popped it in the corner of my tank for now. My question is, when should I take it out? I don't want to take it out too soon before I know I have enough bacteria living in the filter media in my filter. But I don't want an old filter bag bobbing around in my tank forever, either. And I want to make sure I don't get huge spikes when I remove it. Any thoughts? I am thinking maybe I should remove it once it looks like my cycle is almost done, but keep on adding ammonia for a couple of days after and make sure I've got enough of a bio filter without that extra filter bag, but I don't know. Input welcome.
Ammonia: 2.0 (started cycle with 5.0 ppm pure ammonia)
Nitrites: 2.0
Nitrates: between 5 and 10.
The filter bag from my friend's tank does not fit in my filter, so I just popped it in the corner of my tank for now. My question is, when should I take it out? I don't want to take it out too soon before I know I have enough bacteria living in the filter media in my filter. But I don't want an old filter bag bobbing around in my tank forever, either. And I want to make sure I don't get huge spikes when I remove it. Any thoughts? I am thinking maybe I should remove it once it looks like my cycle is almost done, but keep on adding ammonia for a couple of days after and make sure I've got enough of a bio filter without that extra filter bag, but I don't know. Input welcome.