Recent content by jesnon

Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately I'm not really sure what happened to kill off all my nitrite eaters, the Ph was fine, temp was fine and I can't think of anything special that happened.    In good news my nitrite eaters are now eating all all the nitrite produced from 1ppm of ammonia...

Hmm that does seem strange! I guess these nitrite eating bacteria are tricky things. My ammonia reduced pretty rapidly when I started cycling, it's just the nitrites I've been having problems with the whole time! I've done quite a lot of large water changes through the whole cycling process...

Hello everyone!   I'm new to the forum (after looking for some advice with my currently stuck fishless cycle - see thread in the new fishkeepers board!) but thought I should probably post here too! If anyone does have any advice on how to kick my nitrite eating bacteria into shape it would be...

Hi everyone,   I'm brand new to fish keeping and have been doing a fishless cycle for 8 weeks now on my 23l fluval edge but my tank still seems to be struggling to build up nitrite eating bacteria and it's starting to drive me slightly mad! I've been cycling at 30*c, my Ph is 8.2 and hasn't...