jdyn90
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Hello,
I am currently cycling a 10 gallon tank and have been following a few fishless cycle guides on the web. I am dosing with pure ammonia solution, and am using the API Freshwater Master Kit for testing.
Around day 10 my ammonia started dropping and I got really excited. 5 days later I did a water change and re-dosed to 4ppm ammonia. It started dropping and then stopped between 1 and 1.5 ppm. It stayed like that for a week and after much thought I did another water change and re-dosed to 4ppm yesterday.
Today, ammonia is again between 1 and 1.5 ppm while Nitrites and Nitrates are seemingly off the charts. I'm not really sure why ammonia isn't going down further. I'm trying to be patient, but this bugging me!
Here's my daily log. See if you guys can make any sense of it, and let me know if there's anything I should do differently.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LhGac6bUvuhxjVJzL3NMW8YbKIjpf_316mEgfit35_M/edit#gid=0
Thanks!
I am currently cycling a 10 gallon tank and have been following a few fishless cycle guides on the web. I am dosing with pure ammonia solution, and am using the API Freshwater Master Kit for testing.
Around day 10 my ammonia started dropping and I got really excited. 5 days later I did a water change and re-dosed to 4ppm ammonia. It started dropping and then stopped between 1 and 1.5 ppm. It stayed like that for a week and after much thought I did another water change and re-dosed to 4ppm yesterday.
Today, ammonia is again between 1 and 1.5 ppm while Nitrites and Nitrates are seemingly off the charts. I'm not really sure why ammonia isn't going down further. I'm trying to be patient, but this bugging me!
Here's my daily log. See if you guys can make any sense of it, and let me know if there's anything I should do differently.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LhGac6bUvuhxjVJzL3NMW8YbKIjpf_316mEgfit35_M/edit#gid=0
Thanks!