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I've had my ammonia spike, this now reads 0. I've had my nitrite spike, this also reads 0. I've had my nitrate go up and down but is also now 0. My live plants are doing well, haven't been in for a long time but none have died so far! Do I need to put ammonia in for another spike? Or can I...

Ammonia is 0, nitrites have dropped to 0 and my nitrates are just about 0 as well! Am I cycled? I don't want to jump the gun and buy fish haha. Help!

I have some that should be arriving soon, so they should take care of everything and once I'm reading 0 and 0 I should be okay to put fish in?

There is barely any ammonia in the tank, I was following the instructions had a few days with 0 so topped it back up to between 2 and 3 I'm more concerned with my nitrites but I know this can take double the amount of time to drop than ammonia. I'm starting a log (which I wish I'd done in the...

So what would you recommend I do now to rectify my situation? Any advice is greatly appreciated

Haha! Well at least I know someone can keep fish alive in Crawley

I was told to add ammonia when it drops to 0, should I not be doing this then? I'm producing nitrites at 5.0ppm, ammonia was between 0.25ppm and 0.5ppm this morning. I'm using the api master test kit.

I also have this information

My apologies! I was in a rush at the beginning of my break to get as much information down as possible. 64 Ca mg/l 160 CaCO3mg/l 11.2 Clarke 16 French 8.96 German

Hi there, Tank - Fluval Flex 123L H x 39cm W x 82cm D x 40cm I am new to the fish keeping world, I currently doing a fishless cycle. All is going well so far, ammonia is dropping and I am feeding the hungry little bits of bacteria. My tank isn't planted (yet) as I didn't want to jump in and...