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I've had my tank for a month now. Did ammonia-based fishless cycle and my reading are: Ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - less than 10 PH - 7 Since I saw the tank has been cycled - I added 3 discusses (170l tank). Almost immediately - within an hour - water in my tank went cloudy. I did all test...

What shall I do then? Keep adding ammonia, even if that means adding it few times a day, to keep it between 3-5ppm, or shall I add it just once and wait until the next day, (being aware ammonia have dropped to zero after 4 hours).

You dont get me right. You said the tank is ready for fish when ammonia drops from 5ppm to zero overnight. My questions was - what to do if it drops back from 5 to zero in 3-5 hours?! Actually - I dont even know it gets to 5ppm at all. What I do is - I add ammonia (7-15ml in 170 litres tank)...

I always use liquid tests. Nitrite go off the chart. They go purple even before I stop dropping

Thanks anyway. I use ammonia calculator I found on this forum. Last time it said I should add 7-8ml of ammonia. Dont remember. I did that and it took 3-4 hours to drop back to zero. Btw - I use API tests. I dont want to overdose but even if I added 15ml - it went back to 0 within few hours...

My fishless cycle has began 15 days ago. I kept adding ammonia (Homebase) to get readings between 3-5ppm. It used to take about 10-12 hours to convert it into nitrites and get back to zero. I keep adding ammonia to reach 3-5ppm but that never happens, as after 3-4 hours is back to zero!! What am...