eco23
Aquarium Advice Addict
Lots of people including well respected senior members on this site think I'm done with my fishless cycle. I'm not absolutely sure.
Some of you may have seen my thread about my pH crash at the completion of my cycle, that I thought reverted me back a bit. Whats happening now is that I can turn 3ppm ammo > no2 > no3 in 24 hours, but I am able to see the transition with my API test kit. So, in other words...I dose up, see the ammo go down while the nitrItes rise, then see the nitrItes fall as the nitrAtes rise.
I was under the impression that you should never see nitrItes if your tank is fully cycled. Did I simply miss one of the basics and I'm ready to stock?
The other issue is that my tap water has chloramines = 1ppm ammonia. I neutralize it with Prime but it obviously still appears on my test kit as a false positive. So I'm not worried about ammo after a large pwc, but I'm concerned that the nitrItes show up immediately after and climb to .25 before dropping down.
Thanks for the help! I just don't want to jump the gun and stock early after all the time and effort I've put into my fishless cycle so far.
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Some of you may have seen my thread about my pH crash at the completion of my cycle, that I thought reverted me back a bit. Whats happening now is that I can turn 3ppm ammo > no2 > no3 in 24 hours, but I am able to see the transition with my API test kit. So, in other words...I dose up, see the ammo go down while the nitrItes rise, then see the nitrItes fall as the nitrAtes rise.
I was under the impression that you should never see nitrItes if your tank is fully cycled. Did I simply miss one of the basics and I'm ready to stock?
The other issue is that my tap water has chloramines = 1ppm ammonia. I neutralize it with Prime but it obviously still appears on my test kit as a false positive. So I'm not worried about ammo after a large pwc, but I'm concerned that the nitrItes show up immediately after and climb to .25 before dropping down.
Thanks for the help! I just don't want to jump the gun and stock early after all the time and effort I've put into my fishless cycle so far.
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