Eman85358
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I have a Fluval V: 5 gallon, in tank simple sump filtration aquarium. It has been running for almost two months. It is supposed to be a low end brackish tank, so 1.005-1.010. I have been keeping it at around 1.008 on average. When I started this tank just about two months ago I added all of the instant start items as well as a pouch of bacteria in a bottle. After about a week of this i saw the levels were good so I added two infant fish, less than 1" on one and 1.3" on the other. There was 0 ammonia and deep deep purple nitrites and dark red nitrates; in the API kit this just means off the chart bad. Needless to say the infants died over a month ago. I decided to fishless cycle this tank by adding a dead shrimp a moss ball and a java fern. Those readings stayed the same until today. Its been about 3 weeks now, finally removed the dead shrimp and replaced 3 out of the 5 gallons of water. after 24 hours i tested the water:
0 Ammonia
0.75-1.00 Nitrites
80 Nitrates
Why is this tank still in the middle portion of a cycle, especially when my specialty fish stores (NOT PETSMART/CO) say that it should have cycled by now 2x over.
0 Ammonia
0.75-1.00 Nitrites
80 Nitrates
Why is this tank still in the middle portion of a cycle, especially when my specialty fish stores (NOT PETSMART/CO) say that it should have cycled by now 2x over.