90L Fish In Again

[LilyRose Tank]

ok thanks om47

 

[LilyRose Tank]

todays results

ammonia 0 nitrite 5 nitrate 40

looks like those bacs are still there!

 

[waterdrop]

It looks like its starting about mid-way through the cycle or so. WD

 

[LilyRose Tank]

It looks like its starting about mid-way through the cycle or so. WD

which is when I put fish in ironically!

 

[LilyRose Tank]

well we are continuing well.
ammonia 0 nitrites 5 nitrates 40 nitrite reading was less , still purple but not so deep a purple, maybe its dropping.....excited, but knowing my luck i doubt it. x

 

[OldMan47]

Give it a chance Jayne. If you are patient enough all tanks will cycle. Some just take more time than we find reasonable.

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, I agree, if you hang in there you should see the nitrite spike drop down and you'll get a chance to get some experience with the third phase (the after-spike phase) of fishless cycling. You've seen how nice it can be to have some really colorful fish for the children and I think you'll make a really good hobbyist as you fill out these various areas of experience. Remember, we've had some fishless cyclers that have had to stretch out to 70 days and more and some of them have been less patient than you! You're doing a really good job recording data and displaying it this time and hopefully with all the members help we can catch it if it gets off track!

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[LilyRose Tank]

oh I am giving it a chance.
ammonia 0 nitrite 5 nitrate 40 added 3.5mls ammonia ( ammonia is down to o now in 12hours btw)

 

[waterdrop]

good, how's your pH been holding up?

 

[LilyRose Tank]

a steady 7.6pH WD

this evening ammonia 0 nitrite 5 nitrate 40/80

 

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[LilyRose Tank]

I'm not going to be impaitient this time, as waterchanges every day arn't funny. I was thinking of finishing this tank, placing the fish from my 120L init, and cycling the 120L coz 80% waterchanges on the 120L are time consuming....I found a way of stoping the back breaking carrying the water bucket.......chair on table with bucket and syphoning the water in the way i syphoned it out! I think I defo bit more off to begin with, but I will win God damnit!
The thing is I know want totally different fish stock...we'll see. I really love the idea of gouramis in the 120L and guppies and platys in the 90L

EDIT, remind me please....at what point do I dose half doses of ammonia.....during nitrite spike ( which is where it is now) or when nitrite starts dropping....the nitrite is still hitting 5 or maybe 2 ( cant tell diffs)the colour is less dark you see so I am still dosing full 3.5ml doses on the 90L tank

 

[waterdrop]

Its during the nitrite spike that you can lighten up on the ammonia dose level a little. I usually recommend you lower the milliliters or partial milliliters such that it seems to be closer to 3ppm rather than 4-5ppm (but not really down to 2ppm, so its a slight thing.) Then, once the spike is over and nitrite is clearing within 24 hours after ammonia is added, you can bring the ammonia dosing back up to 5ppm again.

What this accomplishes is to slightly lower the overall amount of nitrogen in the system (in the form of nitrites and nitrates.) When these substances are high, they tend to suppress the N-Bac growth a bit.

Of course a similar thing is accomplished if nitrites and nitrates get high and you decide to do a large water change. This also drops the overall nitrogen in the system. Either way can theoretically help a little but the trade-off with water changes is that they disturb the bacteria a little and sometimes cause it to "pause" a day or so, so we also try not to be doing any more of them than we have to.

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[LilyRose Tank]

this evenings results are
ammonia 0 nitrites 1ppm! nitrates 40 pH 7.6
nitrite spike starting to drop...thought the purple colour was becoming less intense

 

[waterdrop]

OK, sounding good there. WD