mchisholm12
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- May 11, 2013
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Hello All,
I'm new to this forum and need some advice from all you experts. I am trying the fishless cycling for the first time and I think I am stuck. I bought a used 30 gallon fish tank with flourite substrate, a used aqueon 30 filter, and a used cascade 700 that all have been used in established tanks. I have both filters hooked up because I read that it would help speed up the cycling, and I also have two heaters keeping the temp at about 85 degrees. I only had fish food as I could not find ammonia without the sufunctant or however you spell it, so I just used flakes. Right now my ammonia is steady at .5 ppm, but my nitrites have been crazy high for about a week, and nitrate is up there too. I use the api test kit and right when i drop the drops into the vile, it turns purple before even shaking it. I have not done any water changes, i just cleaned up a few of the flakes that were sitting at the bottom cause i think i overdosed it on the food at first. Any advice??
Thank you so much! I'm lost!
Michael Chisholm
I'm new to this forum and need some advice from all you experts. I am trying the fishless cycling for the first time and I think I am stuck. I bought a used 30 gallon fish tank with flourite substrate, a used aqueon 30 filter, and a used cascade 700 that all have been used in established tanks. I have both filters hooked up because I read that it would help speed up the cycling, and I also have two heaters keeping the temp at about 85 degrees. I only had fish food as I could not find ammonia without the sufunctant or however you spell it, so I just used flakes. Right now my ammonia is steady at .5 ppm, but my nitrites have been crazy high for about a week, and nitrate is up there too. I use the api test kit and right when i drop the drops into the vile, it turns purple before even shaking it. I have not done any water changes, i just cleaned up a few of the flakes that were sitting at the bottom cause i think i overdosed it on the food at first. Any advice??
Thank you so much! I'm lost!
Michael Chisholm