So I've been cycling my tank for about two weeks (WITH fish). I've been adding Seachem Stability to the tank daily for seven days now. Seachem's instructions only mention seven days of treatment. Can I add it for more than seven days?
I would read this article:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forum...ady-have-fish-what-now-116287.html#post983258.
What are you using to test your water? The strips are pretty inaccurate, at best. I would suggest doing 50% water changes until your ammonia gets down below .25ppm. Even if that means mutliple 50% WC's per day.
I typically don't add anything to my tanks other than Prime. The less chemicals added the better.
Agree with this statement 100%... I don't really recommend a chemical solution to anything... nothing good happens quickly in an aquarium.
That's a bummer, your 1ppm ammonia in the tap water. Have you tried filling a bucket of what up and letting it sit 24 hours before testing it? It could be chloramines causing a false positive in your ammonia reading. Chloramines are very volatile and will not stay in the water more than 24 hours or so once the water is exposed to a good amount of air. If it does happen to be chloramines, and the ammonia tests 0 after 24 hours, then treating with prime and adding right to the tank out of the tap should be fine... prime is an effective treatment for chloramines.
Is there anyway you could get media from an established tank? That would speed up your cycle especially with an additive.
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jinkel said:I actually have a five gallon tank with three glofish that is cycled. After someone mentioned doing this in one of my other threads, I did take some of the media from it, and put it in the 20 gallon filter "box" (er, whatever you call the housing area for the filter "pads"). That was about a week ago. Maybe I didn't take enough?
I also have to add that a 5g tank is way to small for 1 goldfish never mind three. With a goldfish you should really have a 30g tank and then 10g per extra goldfish.
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With my 45 gallon tank while I was cycling I used a bacteria additive and I used media from my 10g tank and never saw any nitrites. The same thing with another member on here. So maybe your not going to see any either.
I also have to add that a 5g tank is way to small for 1 goldfish never mind three. With a goldfish you should really have a 30g tank and then 10g per extra goldfish.
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meegosh said:Glo fish - not goldfish Big difference as far as bioload is concerned!