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Getting there , ammonia dropped to 0"in 24h but about 1ppm nitrite still hanging around

Nitrites dropped from 1ppm yesterday to 0ppm today. Should I dose 3ppm and see how it drops ?

It looks like the nitrites are starting to drop so I'm confident it hasn't stalled at the moment, tonight's testing will give me a better idea. Either way its looking to be a shorter than average cycle I think. Thanks for advice

Today is my second dose , now after this I'm onto the snacking right ? So today is one more full dose and then when I get the 0 readings I begin to feed 1/3 of the dose. Shouldn't be long judging by my results so far. I've already put the second dose in about half an hour ago ....

If at any time after the first ammonia addition (Dose #1) you test and ammonia is under .75 ppm and nitrite is clearly over 2 ppm, it is time to add more ammonia (Dose #2). Add the same full amount as you did the first time This is my situation

I've got that link pinned to my start screen. I'm going to ignore the nitrates for now theyre not really necessary until the nitrite and ammonia are constantly 0. I'm guessing I'm not going to be cycling this tank for a month (not definitely) but after 2 days the ammonia needs topping up and my...

How can I reduce the size of an image ? I cannot post one of my test results. I have not yet tested my tap water but after testing again today, ammonia seems to have dropped again to .50/1ppm , nitrites are looking very high at what id say was near the 5ppm mark and nitrates are also very high...

Ok will do

Ammonia - 2ppm Nitrite - .25 maybe slightly over Nitrate - 40 I'd say Ph is very dark blue so 7.6 I guess but high range is a dark brown which looks like 8.2.

Haven't tested Ph .. I broke one of my test tubes.

Its a little hard to follow these instructions when my readings are already ahead of them ...

No it wasn't that exact method but another one that was highly rated and reviewed. Tbh I don't think it did hit 4ppm it was about 3. When I changed the substrate I left a few cupfulls in a stocking in the tank for about a week to try and transfer some of the bacteria. Is it at all possible that...

Hi, thanks for viewing this topic. So yesterday I started my fishless cycle with ammonia. I added 5ml and raised the ammonia to 4ppm. Today I came home, tested the ammonia which seems to have dropped slightly already but I thought I read this should take around a week? Because of this I...