Fishless Cycle...how Much Amonia In A 130 Gall Tank

[Wanda hornsey]

Starting my first fishless cycle and am trying to work out how much amonia to add for the start of my fishless cycle...cant find the thread RDD did on it any suggestions

Thanks

 

[Squid]

First off. here is RDD's thread..

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...3861&hl=methods

You start off with 5-6 ppm... Although you do worry that you added too much and anything over 4ppm just looks pretty darn green in my test kits..

I used the following calculation to work out how much to put in (This may be different depending on your tank size and ammonia solution. You can always do tests in a bucket, and then multiply the bucket size to your tank size.)

so.. 5ppm

if 1 litre is 1000 ml, then 1000 litres is 1 million ml...

then 5ml of pure ammonia is 5 ppm in that case..

so

100,000 would require 0.5 ml

10,000 (ten litres) would require 0.05ml of ammonia

the solution is only about 10% ammonia, so that would need 0.5ml of my solution

so i tested this and it went green (somewhere over 4ppm, but not entirely sure)

so..

my 180 litre tank would require 18 * 0.5 =9ml of my solution..

Good Luck
SQUID

 

[Wanda hornsey]

Off to have a mental breakdown and work it out ....thanks a million