dmarie04
Fishaholic
I'm trying to do a fishless cycle on my 29 gallon tank. I wanted to post my results here to see if this is normal/ok. I've never actually done a cycle before, so I'm just looking to see if I'm doing it right! I'm doing the add and wait method. I started the cycle 5 days ago. Ammonia dropped to zero 2 days ago and, as of today, is dropping to zero from 4ppm in about 8 hours. Nitrite has been at 5.0 and Nitrate has been at 80ppm yesterday and today. For some reason I thought that when I started seeing nitrate, my nitrite would be going down. Maybe I'm just being too impatient! It has only been 5 days.