Can Treatments Interupt Cycle?

[Bluetooth]

Just a quick question as the title says? My ammo was nearly zero and nitrItes were growing before i dropped a bit of blue into my tank to stop itching and suspected white spot (also had a death for no reason) but since then i placed the carbon into the tank to remove the blue and took the carbon out last night im experiencing a full on bacterial bloom and my nitrItes have gone down to 0 and ammo is going up again..

Just wondering if this is the blue's fault?

 

[squiggley]

Yes meth blue will kill off your filter bacteria

 

[WILDER]

Some brands of methylene blue can totally wipe the beneifcal bacteria out in the filter.

 

[Bluetooth]

looks like i just wiped the filter out then.. bollocks..

i just put in a new 1200l/h filter so hopefully will get running pretty quick.. #71### sake...

now i gotta shift all my fish... grar!

 

[WILDER]

The tank might of just gone into a mini cycle.
What are your test results.
Do you mean nitrates not nitrites.
Nitrites should be 0 in a cycled tank.

 

[Bluetooth]

no i mean nitrItes hence the uppercase I as above =-)

the morning before i treated my nitrItes were at 0.25 (after 2 weeks of ammo fun) and growing, but the morning after i had removed the methyline blue nitrItes back to 0

Am watching the cycle again now, back to daily testing =-) not a huge thing i just have to shift my angels and cons again blah

 

[WILDER]

Ok.
All you can do is water changes and increase aeration.