Bigbruiser's - Fishless Cycle Log

[BigbruiserAl]

Well i never did a log in my other tanks and noticed we are a bit light on them on this forum


Day 1, 19th April 2011 - 10ml added Ammonia 4ppm
Day 2, 20th April 2011 - Ammonia 4ppm
Day 3, 21st April 2011 - Ammonia 3ppm
Day 4, 22nd April 2011 - Ammonia 3ppm
Day 5, 23rd April 2011 - Ammonia 2ppm
Day 6, 24th April 2011 - Ammonia 1ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm
Day 7, 25th April 2011 - Ammonia 0.50ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm
Day 8, 26th April 2011 - Ammonia 0.25ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm Nitrate 20ppm
Day 9, 27th April 2011 - Ammonia 0.25ppm Nitrite 0ppm Nitrate 20ppm 10ml Redose
Day 10, 28th April 2011 - Ammonia 4ppm Nitrite 1ppm PH 7.6
Day 11, 29th April 2011 - Ammonia 2ppm Nitrite 5+ppm Nitrate 160+ppm
Day 12, 30th April 2011 - Forgot oops
Day 13, 1st May 2011 - Ammonia 0.25ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm Nitrate 160+ppm ph 6.8 5ml Redose
Day 14, 2nd May 2011 - Forgot oops
Day 15, 3rd May 2011 - Ammonia 0.25ppm Nitrite 0ppm Nitrate 160+ppm ph 6.4
Day 16, 4th May 2011 -
Day 17, 5th May 2011 -

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Weee movment on day 3 not bad going

NB: Dont get the fulvel E series what utter junk, its sitting under a spray of 1000L flow saying LF (low flow) Aghhhh

 

[L_Plates]

Nice tank BBA

 

[Ragtagcurtis]

Wow hoe did you get everything that cheap dude?

I'm almost done cycling my Roma 125L, had my first double 0 today but am already looking for a larger (closer to 4 ft) tank, so any tips on finding bargains would be great. I brought the Roma brand new from a garden centre (I was new to the hobby and didn't realise the bargains that could be had) for a stonking £200. Feel cheated now but we live and learn, having one brand new just added to the piece of mind when I was first starting out but I'd never buy a new tank again.

Good luck on this cycle hope it goes fast for you.

 

[mishka83]

Lovely looking set up

Gumtree, Ad Trader and Ebay are all great places to look.

I'm getting my Juwel Vision 180 tomorrow evening (2nd hand for £120).

I've never bought a new tank, some are above the £500 mark!!

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Thanks the tank itself has some deepish scrahes at the bottom where it was a marine tank but you can only see them when the T5's are on. Im going to move this to the kitchen and get a ND aquatics tank 400L in its place

 

[BIG BAD BARRY]

Nice tank BBA!
What are you gonna stock in this one?

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Nice tank BBA!
What are you gonna stock in this one?

Depends if i live long enough to stock it mate, i now have 6 tanks in the house and the wife is about to have a epi with me lol.

The long term plan is to stock maybe 4 Bolivan rams 20 harlequin rasbora and some MTS and maybe a few sand sifter, let them grow in for 6moths and get a ND aquatics 400L tank in it place then im going to turn the aqua one tank into a full 80% planted tank with one huge school of neons

 

[waterdrop]

Sounds like a nice plan BBA. It's good to have long range plans. The longer you have to go over and over them in your mind the nicer they get I think. I've been very slowly homing in on 75G rectangulars as a size I like from a number of different point-of-views. WD

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Change of plans going to sell the aqua one and stand with its 300w heater for £200 if i can and get a jewl rio 300 this week.

Oh and another Ammonia drop today bless mature media

 

[BIG BAD BARRY]

The Bolivian rams will love it in the rio 300

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Tanks on mission not bad for day 6 4ppm to 1ppm in 6 days

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Tested early today another drop, will pro dose to 3ppm tomrrow

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Err now really confused Nitrite has dropped to 0ppm

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Err now really confused Nitrite has dropped to 0ppm

With mature media, isn't is possible that the N-bacs are just able to keep up with the A-bacs? After all, weren't they (theoretically) in the proper ratio in the established tank (and therefore the media) before you moved them? Couldn't it be possible that you are just growing the A-bac colony and noticing that number with a slight delay to the N-bacs number?


Another words, the A-bacs convert the ammonia to nitrite at the same rate that the N-bacs are converting the nitrite to nitrate? And since the A-bacs and N-bacs are in the proper ratio already, the rate that the A-bacs munch through the ammonia, is almost perfectly suited to the N-bacs munching through the nitrite? Then, as you add more ammonia, the A-bacs number grows, and is quickly followed by growth of the N-bacs population, once a slight increase in nitrite is available...



Does that make any sense, or is it complete nonsense? I was just thinking that if you brought mature media over (filter and all) from a tank with 30 fish, theoretically, it should be able to handle the waste load immediately of 30 fish, ammonia, nitrite and all. It would only have any spikes, if the waste load would be greater, but the nitrite might not show up, because the A-bacs wouldn't be processing more than the N-bacs could already handle.


Just some musings based on mathematical probabilities not experience.