Fishless Cycling questions

[Shtek]

It’s been two weeks I used drsTim’s ammonia chloride solution used the corect
Amount bringing my ammonia levels to 2.0 ppm. Also used aquarium aquarium kick start. Water temp is around 80 good circulation. My ammonia levels haven’t really changed and my nitrite hsve been consistent 0oppm. I know it can take along time being it’s a fishless cycle. Anything else I can do or just being patient

 

[Andy Sager]

Sadly, so many of the " bacteria in a bottle" products have been proven to be non effective. A study was done and only Fritzyme #7, Fritz Turbo 700 and Tetra quickstart have shown to be effective. There is a caveat to these working however: You must have the proper temp, ( which you have) and pH ( which you have) and
Alkalinity (KH): minimum 4.5 dKH or 80.5 ppm KH & Phosphate: above 0 ppm for the microbes to multiply at optimum speed. If you have these parameters and want to speed things up, I suggest using the Fritz products or the Tetra Start and then continue testing. OR, if you have an existing tank that's running and fully cycled, take some of the filter material from that tank and place it in the filter of the new tank and that will help speed things up. Other than that, you'll have to have patience.

 

[Robbo80]

You will get there. A lot of patience is needed but it will happen. I used FritzZyme 700 and it took me 3 weeks and 3 days. Not sure if that's good but it seemed like very slow progress to begin with, then the last week everything sort of progressed.