Coming To End Of Cycle?

[Ashley1991]

Hey all

Just wondered if this was a indicationt hat i was coming out of my cycle ( i know i still have to do a qualifying week)

Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate- between 10 and 20 ppm my tapwater has 5 ppm

going to test later on to to see if its the same

Ash

 

[Ashley1991]

anyone?


Ash

 

[Twinklecaz]

Have you been dosing the Ammonia every day? If so then yeah I guess so. What you need is to get those readings 12 hours after you've dosed 5ppm of Ammonia consistantly for a week. Then you're done

 

[Ashley1991]

fish in cycle =/ didnt feed my mature media like a fool then adde dfish thinking all will be well =/

im testing in a hour to see whats what

cheers

ash

 

[PDSimon]

It's difficult to tell from one reading!

A lot of tanks could have 0 ammonia and 0 nitrites at various stages in the cycle. especially with fish in cycling where you're always doing water changes

it's best to have the full list of testing in a chronological order or atleast where you've had ammonia spikes/nitrite etc

 

[Ashley1991]

its being cycling for a month and a half it used to have ammonia everyday so water changes everyday

now im doing one every 3 or 4 days last water change was wednesday and still no ammonia i know i should have kept a cycle diary but yeah i did not XD

hopefully there will be none tommorow either! suppose its just guess work since i did not keep a diary because im a fool

but yeah hope im near the end im testing twice a day now as well so i will see a spike and deal with it accordingly

Ash

 

[PDSimon]

I'm not familiar with fish-in cycles but the run along the same principles as a fishless cycle...

With a fishless one the cycle has ended when ammonia and nitrite process within 12 hours... If i were you I would test every 12 hours as you are doing to ensure ammonia and nitrite are 0 and do water changes when/if required. Then over time this can ease into 24 hour, 2 day, weekly tests etc. Then when you add new fish be sure to keep an eye on the levels again

hope this helps

 

[Ashley1991]

yeah it does thanks very much

Ash

 

[OldMan47]

The readings may well indicate that you are nearing the end of your fish in-cycle. If you can keep getting double zeros without doing a water change for a week or more, you will be there. Meanwhile, don't forget to watch the nitrates so you will know when it gets over 20 ppm.

 

[Ashley1991]

if it goes over 20 ppm do i need to do a water change?

todays results

ammonia 0ppm
nitrite 0ppm
nitrate 20ppm

Ash

 

[OldMan47]

The typical routine maintenance for a freshwater tank is to do a water change whenever the nitrates rise to a value 20 ppm above tap water. The idea is that by the time nitrates have risen that much, the contaminants we cannot measure have also risen and it would be best to remove them. There is nothing magic about the value of 20 except what it may say about the rest of the contaminants in the water. The actual value of nitrates that is poisonous to most fish is well over 100 ppm.

 

[Ashley1991]

cheers oldman much appreciated

ill keep a eye on them

ash