I've been cycling my 5 gallon aquarium for many weeks. I'm doing a fishless cycle using pure janitorial ammonia, according to the guide posted on this forum: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forum...guide-and-faq-to-fishless-cycling-148283.html
I followed all the steps and it seemed to be working just fine, until now. I seem to be "stuck" on step L, which is one of the very last steps.
According to the directions, this is step L
First of all, when I add the ammonia up to 4 ppm, it doesn't drop to 0 in 24 hours. In fact, there's still at least 1ppm of ammonia 3 days later, although my nitrItes are 0 and my nitrAtes are very high (like 80). It seems to be converting about 1ppm of ammonia every 24 hours. Is that good enough? Is there anything I should do?
I followed all the steps and it seemed to be working just fine, until now. I seem to be "stuck" on step L, which is one of the very last steps.
According to the directions, this is step L
Add your ammonia up to 4ppm one more time. Look at the clock. If within 24 hours you can turn that 4ppm of ammonia > nitrItes > nitrAtes… congratulations! After the 24 hours your test results should be ammo-0 nitrItes-0 and have lots of nitrAtes. You grew one heck of a bio-filter and are going to have ridiculously happy fish!
First of all, when I add the ammonia up to 4 ppm, it doesn't drop to 0 in 24 hours. In fact, there's still at least 1ppm of ammonia 3 days later, although my nitrItes are 0 and my nitrAtes are very high (like 80). It seems to be converting about 1ppm of ammonia every 24 hours. Is that good enough? Is there anything I should do?