Started fishless cycling a betta tank last week using Safe Start Plus to jump start and ammonia dropped from 4.0 ppm to 1.0 - 0.5 ppm in 5 days but then rose on its own to ~2.0 ppm (I think this may be due to 2 dead Amazon Sword leaves which have since been removed). It's been at ~2.0 ppm at least the past 2 days with no signs of dropping. I'm a little nervous something has happened to the cycle.
I need to have it cycled by the end of the month because I'm going away for 10 days and won't be able to monitor the levels. If the cycle fails should I try fishless cycling again or try fish-in with 1 betta? Not sure how bad fish-in with one fish would be but I'd prefer not to put it through stressful water conditions.
I need to have it cycled by the end of the month because I'm going away for 10 days and won't be able to monitor the levels. If the cycle fails should I try fishless cycling again or try fish-in with 1 betta? Not sure how bad fish-in with one fish would be but I'd prefer not to put it through stressful water conditions.
