So, this whole fishless cycle thing is starting to try my patience... I've been in the nitrIte phase for about 2 weeks now, and my nitrIte reading are driving my bonkers. I have the API master test kit and had been testing nitrItes daily thinking they were off the chart because of the similarity of the shades of purple on the test kit. Well, I was reading that you can dilute the tank water with water that you would use to do a PWC, so I did that. I did a 1/2 tank water & 1/2 PWC ready water and it was still off the chart. So, I did a 1/5 tank water & 4/5 PWC ready water test and it read at 0.25 nitrItes... Meaning that the real reading would be 1.25?!? Could this be right? I think that the colors of the test water/chart are so similar that once you get beyond a certain point they all look the same....
My ammonia is dropping within 24 hours, (I'm adding enough to read 0.5 ppm each day) and my nitrAte readings are about 10ppm. I'm getting tired of waiting!!! Should I be adding less ammonia? Logic tells me that the more ammonia I add daily the longer I will have to wait because that means that there will just be that much more nitrItes added to the already high level...
My ammonia is dropping within 24 hours, (I'm adding enough to read 0.5 ppm each day) and my nitrAte readings are about 10ppm. I'm getting tired of waiting!!! Should I be adding less ammonia? Logic tells me that the more ammonia I add daily the longer I will have to wait because that means that there will just be that much more nitrItes added to the already high level...