Adding Ammonia

[juhill]

Hi

I messed up the start of my fishless cycle by adding too much ammonia and it delayed things until I did some water changes.

I have nitrite levels now and my ammonia is slowly dropping. My question is how much ammonia will I need to add again to bring it up to 5ppm when it drops down to 0? My tank is 35l. The ammonia is around 9%.

Thanks

 

[aaron1]

Hi

I messed up the start of my fishless cycle by adding too much ammonia and it delayed things until I did some water changes.

I have nitrite levels now and my ammonia is slowly dropping. My question is how much ammonia will I need to add again to bring it up to 5ppm when it drops down to 0? My tank is 35l. The ammonia is around 9%.

Thanks

what size is the tank work out the gallons
in the tank to the instuctions on nitrite also will always be a little high on new set ups until you put some fish in you might have to put some test fish in for a bit until the levels are ok also might be worth you putting in some fish food to help the cycle

 

[juhill]

[/quote]what size is the tank work out the gallons
in the tank to the instuctions on nitrite also will always be a little high on new set ups until you put some fish in you might have to put some test fish in for a bit until the levels are ok also might be worth you putting in some fish food to help the cycle
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My tank is just over 9 US gallons.

I won't be adding fish yet. I don't think you understand the concept of fishless cycling and what I'm trying to achieve. There's a pinned topic at the top of this forum that explains it really well. Thanks for taking the trouble to reply anyway.

 

[juhill]

I'm still don't know how much ammonia to add and I think I'm going to be down to 0 soon. does anyone have a rough idea please?

 

[dizzied]

You should've measured what you used when you first added ammonia and base your future ammonia dosages on that. If no one can give you a clear answer, you could just add a little and use an ammonia test to see how much it increased.

 

[juhill]

You should've measured what you used when you first added ammonia and base your future ammonia dosages on that. If no one can give you a clear answer, you could just add a little and use an ammonia test to see how much it increased.

Hi

I did measure how much I added and kept testing but added way too much so the ammonia went off the scale and was difficult to read. I thought someone may have a formula for adding it so I can work it out in ml (prob less than a ml going by last time).

Thanks anyway