6Th Day Of Cycle.

[Joshwainwright]

I'm currently on my sixth day of cycling my tank and at the moment I wouldn't call it a cycle at all. Instead, I'm going to call it a stationary.

So, on the first day of my stationary I dosed 5ppm of ammonia and six days later it hasn't decreased at all! I'm losing the will to live!

I am doing a fishless cycle without mature media but I never imagined it taking this long. Ahh well, I better sit it out and stop moaning.

 

[Westwood]

I'm sure you will have fishes in the tank some day! I know nothing about cycling, can't remember the last time i had to cycle a tank from scratch!

 

[Joshwainwright]

I have no idea why I decided to start from scratch. It was my genius plan to get rid of my old 80L tank weeks before my new 125L arrived. I regret it now.

I must have been drugged!

 

[KittyKat]

It is not uncommon for 10-15 days to pass before anything happens.

 

[Joshwainwright]

Hopefully once something starts to happen, I can get the cycle over and done with nice and quickly.

The temperature is right (29C) and the pH is right (7.2) at the moment.

 

[Twinklecaz]

I think mine was about 20 days before it dipped the first time!

 

[Joshwainwright]

I think mine was about 20 days before it dipped the first time!

Gosh!
Hopefully I won't have to wait that long.

 

[Twinklecaz]

No i was quite unlucky, my cycle took over 3 months all in all.

 

[Joshwainwright]

OWCH!

Knowing my luck, I will be the same...

 

[ian]

why not get some mature media from a local?

 

[Joshwainwright]

I don't want to ask my LFS as I would feel rather cheeky. I haven't bought anything from them for quite a while so I would probably go bright red and squeaky!

 

[doresy]

6 days and you are like this! You're not going to make it

You're worse than my wife on a diet!!

Even with some matured media you would be pushed to show anything after 6 days.

Be assured though, if you stick with it you will feel an overwhelming sense of achievement when you get that zero-zero reading!

Good luck my friend

 

[Joshwainwright]

6 days and you are like this! You're not going to make it

You're worse than my wife on a diet!!

Even with some matured media you would be pushed to show anything after 6 days.

Be assured though, if you stick with it you will feel an overwhelming sense of achievement when you get that zero-zero reading!

Good luck my friend

I get excited too easily, I'm useless!
I'll have to cope.

I'm sure I'll get there in the end

 

[sXeLifer]

You should have just done what I did and steal some mature filter media from your best mate whos had his filter running for 2 years, I chucked it right in 2 days later I added fish and I had no problems at all

 

[nehpets81]

Yeah, 6 days is quite soon for it to start - mine started after about 10 days - every exciting time! Sadly it stopped 6 days later and nothing has happened since. I say nothing, but actually the nitrite that was produced originally seems to be being processed into nitrate slowly... Shame there will be no nitrite left in a few days to keep it going at this rate!