Good morning,
I have been doing a fishless cycle for about 6 weeks now.
Each day I dosed with beneficial bacteria in a bottle, and ammonia to about 4ppm.
For the past 2 weeks the ammonia has been neutralised within 24 hours. Nitrites remain high.
Do I need to keep dosing ammonia each day for the ammonia neutralising bacteria to be kept alive? Or do I stop with the ammonia, since I feel the more ammonia I put in, the more nitrites I have?
Nitrates are also present. But my biggest concern is the nitrites that struggles to go down.
I did a 25% water change about 3 days ago and it feels that the nitrites spiked after that. Before that the ammonia neutralised in 24 hours and the nitrites to about 0.25ppm in the same 24 hours. But now after dosing ammonia the nitrites does not come down as easily.
Sand used as ‘gravel’, lots of plants, Submersible filter, bonsai tree with java moss attached at the top.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
I have been doing a fishless cycle for about 6 weeks now.
Each day I dosed with beneficial bacteria in a bottle, and ammonia to about 4ppm.
For the past 2 weeks the ammonia has been neutralised within 24 hours. Nitrites remain high.
Do I need to keep dosing ammonia each day for the ammonia neutralising bacteria to be kept alive? Or do I stop with the ammonia, since I feel the more ammonia I put in, the more nitrites I have?
Nitrates are also present. But my biggest concern is the nitrites that struggles to go down.
I did a 25% water change about 3 days ago and it feels that the nitrites spiked after that. Before that the ammonia neutralised in 24 hours and the nitrites to about 0.25ppm in the same 24 hours. But now after dosing ammonia the nitrites does not come down as easily.
Sand used as ‘gravel’, lots of plants, Submersible filter, bonsai tree with java moss attached at the top.
Thanks in advance for any advice!