Hello,
I have a Fluval 250l tanks with fluval 307 filter and heater (set to 28). I am attempting a fishless cycle. I set up the tank and added dechlorinator followed by Tetra safestart. I followed Dr Tim’s advice closely using dr Tim’s Ammonium Chloride. As expected, I reached the end of the instructions after 12 days with not much happening. Fully expected it to be overly ambitious and take longer. A couple of days later the ammonia dropped to zero and nitrites appeared. Happy days. It’s now been 5 weeks and I have continued to add 15ml ammonia every few days which drop to zero very quickly (same day). The nitrite however always reads between 0.25 and 0.5 when using my API master test kit. I would have expected the nitrite to go up over time or is that not correct? Any suggestions on what I should do next? Keep patient? Add some more nitrifying bacteria like one and only? Add more or less Ammonia? Add Seachem Prime? Use the aqua sky lights on my tank? Something totally different? Any advice much appreciated. Thanks
I have a Fluval 250l tanks with fluval 307 filter and heater (set to 28). I am attempting a fishless cycle. I set up the tank and added dechlorinator followed by Tetra safestart. I followed Dr Tim’s advice closely using dr Tim’s Ammonium Chloride. As expected, I reached the end of the instructions after 12 days with not much happening. Fully expected it to be overly ambitious and take longer. A couple of days later the ammonia dropped to zero and nitrites appeared. Happy days. It’s now been 5 weeks and I have continued to add 15ml ammonia every few days which drop to zero very quickly (same day). The nitrite however always reads between 0.25 and 0.5 when using my API master test kit. I would have expected the nitrite to go up over time or is that not correct? Any suggestions on what I should do next? Keep patient? Add some more nitrifying bacteria like one and only? Add more or less Ammonia? Add Seachem Prime? Use the aqua sky lights on my tank? Something totally different? Any advice much appreciated. Thanks