A Hopefull Cyclest.. Think It Might Be A Long Road

[Ginga@139]

Ok here we go!!!!!!

if you fancy reading any of my other threads you will find out how i ended up here ...
for you guys and gals who dont want be numbbed
I started fishless cylcle on Friday/Saturday

65L Tank
Temp swimming pool warm 29c
Added 3ml of Ammonia 7/8/09 about 8pm

1st test 8/8/09
8pm
PH 7.6
Nitrites 2ppm
Nitrates 40ppm
Ammonia 4 ppm


2nd Test 9/8/09
8pm
Ph 7.6
Nitrites 5ppm
Nitrates ... looks lighter than 40ppm but not quite 20 ppm
Ammonia .. 4.0 ppm but not quite light enough to be 2.0ppm

as with all my posts i open myself up to you all
information, opinon, critaism or praise
just wana get this up running and get fish swimming

so good evening to you all

thanks for reading

Ginga

 

[DannyBlackbourn]

Good luck mate!

I have just finished a fish-in Cycle and I must say it was rather stressful!

I can't wait to do a fishless cycle in my other tank when I get to set it up

Hope you have less stress than I did! Good Luck again!

 

[Harlequins]

Good luck

i'm doing fishless also...day 34

 

[Tropical_Fish]

Just finished my cycle - took under a month - it's worth it in the end though!

Looking at your stats it seems odd that you have nitrites already. Is it the API Master Test Kit you are using? If so I would expect it to be light blue.

Have you tested your tap water? If so post the results of your tap water so we can see what your starting with

 

[Ginga@139]

No problem all help , advise , querys , rolloking excepted
i test tap water this evening
09/08/09

ph 7.2
nitrites 0.0ppm
nitrates 10ppm
ammonia 0ppm

if you dont mind being mind numbed please could you go back look at my post
titlted .. confused?
might help you out understanding were i am
which might give you a better understanding of where ive been for last month

again as usual
no advise ignored
all information is helpful
all questions answer as best i can

cheer and bye

Ginga

 

[Tropical_Fish]

tap water is perfect,

You just need more test data. Normally I would have said that you only need to test for ammonia each day, until it is going from 4ppm to 0ppm in less than 12 hours, but as you already have some nitrite activity I'd keep checking that too.

You're best to do a full set of results each day for a week or so and keep posting them here

lots of patience is needed!

 

[Ginga@139]

Ok will do i will do test every day next week should be able to post at about 8pm uk time
any other information thats helpful??
if you need anything that might help me on my way just shout il try my best

 

[Ginga@139]

OK day 3 results are in ....

1st test 8/8/09
8pm
PH 7.6
Nitrites 2ppm
Nitrates 40ppm
Ammonia 4 ppm


2nd Test 9/8/09
8pm
Ph 7.6
Nitrites 5ppm
Nitrates ... looks lighter than 40ppm but not quite 20 ppm
Ammonia .. 4.0 ppm but not quite light enough to be 2.0ppm

3rd Test 10/08/09
8.30pm
PH 7.6
Nitrites 2ppm
Nitrates 20ppm
Ammonia 4ppm

ok all seems realatively similar except nitrates ae a definate 20ppm tonight
i see nitrites have gone down too was expecting 1 to go up and the other to come down??

anyway
coments, good and bad welcome
will pop back later as really cr@ppy night of telly
Ginga

ps .. why do they have to make all the colour so damnd close

 

[swordtailz]

Fishless cycling is so much easier...
It is even easier to clone a filter and move that to the new tank...

 

[Ginga@139]

cloning
is this using a donated filter media

If i could find any body how had a tank local i would be fine

could you use water or media from a pond??
or is that maddness?

 

[Tropical_Fish]

Yes pond media works, I used some media from my friends pond to try to speed my cycle up. I put it in after about a week into my fishless cycle (at that point I hadn't seen any change in the levels) The next day the ammonia started to drop - then it took about 3 weeks to finish cycling.

I've no idea if it was due to the pond media but I seem to have had quite a quick cycle compared to others.

 

[OldMan47]

You can definitely clone a pond filter in a freshwater tank. Often there is so much media in a pond filter that the bit you would need would never be missed by the donor filter.

 

[Ginga@139]

Evening All,
ok tonights figures
11/08/09 8.15pm
4th Test
Ammonia 2.0ppm
Nitrates 40ppm
Nitrites 2.0ppm



so were these figuress going??
Are they going in right direction


3rd Test 10/08/09
8.30pm
PH 7.6
Ammonia 4ppm
Nitrates 20ppm
Nitrites 2ppm




2nd Test 9/8/09
8pm
Ph 7.6
Ammonia .. 4.0 ppm but not quite light enough to be 2.0ppm
Nitrates ... looks lighter than 40ppm but not quite 20 ppm
Nitrites 5ppm



1st test 8/8/09
8pm
PH 7.6
Ammonia 4 ppm
Nitrates 40ppm
Nitrites 2ppm