I am currently cycling my 75 gallon tank. The ammonia dropped last weekend and the nitrite has been around 5 ppm for 7 days. I am still adding ammonia twice daily (morning and night) to raise the ammonia level to around 1 ppm. It drops back to zero in about 8 hours. This is a heavily planted tank and I am burning the lights constantly as I thought I had ready to do that while cycling. I am starting to get a build up of brownish hair algae and also blue green algae. At least I think it is BGA but since the substrate is black, it's hard to tell but there is definitely something forming on it. Do I need to cut back on the lighting to a normal 8 to 12 hour day. The nitrates are only running about 10 ppm. I don't want to start out with a huge algae problem before I ever put fish in it.
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On a side note, with all the plants, do I need to even finish the cycle? Should I just do a very large water change and start slowly adding fish?
Picks of the tank:
On a side note, with all the plants, do I need to even finish the cycle? Should I just do a very large water change and start slowly adding fish?
