Fishless Cycle Question

[yes9003]

Today on Monday my readings are as follows

Ammonia 0.25, Nuitrite 0, Nitrate 40 ph 7.4
It seems like its not going down fast enough, any help will be appreciated.

 

[yes9003]

Bicarbonate of soda. Available at most supermarkets. This will up your Ph. What size tank is it so we can work out a dosage?

+1 make sure its Bicarbonate of soda, think i used like a tea spoon for 220l so you dont need alot. Yours is a 45 US gallon yeas?

I did add as per your recommendation my ph went uМое время - ночная пора
to 7.6, still stalling
my ammonia 0.5, nitrite 0, nitrate 40. It took about 14 hours to go from 1 to 0.5 on ammonia. Is there anything else I could do?
Thanks

 

[Smells a bit fishy]

You could do a 100% water change, ensuring you use dechlorinator and warm water (to save electricity from your heater doing it) and redose to 4 ppm and add bicarbonate of soda to get the ph back up. But maybe wait another week to see if anything changes.

Oh, sorry just re-read the post, your ammonia is dropping, so there is no need to do anything, just have to be patient I'm afraid, why not start looking into what fish you want to put in there

 

[yes9003]

You could do a 100% water change, ensuring you use dechlorinator and warm water (to save electricity from your heater doing it) and redose to 4 ppm and add bicarbonate of soda to get the ph back up. But maybe wait another week to see if anything changes.

Oh, sorry just re-read the post, your ammonia is dropping, so there is no need to do anything, just have to be patient I'm afraid, why not start looking into what fish you want to put in there

Thanks I will wait patiently, just want to make sure that ammonia can drop to 0 within at least 12 hours so I do not hurt the fish that i will hopefully place in there.

 

[Smells a bit fishy]

This can take a while I'm afraid, your still in stage 1 of the cycle, however a small upside is that your filter is already processing nitrite, so hopefully stage 2 won't be too long (normally the longest stage).

Just hang on in there and you will have fish in that tank in no time, the other option is to take some more mature media from your second tank, as the first lot hasn't done anything, this will give the bacteria a good starting point to colonise

 

[yes9003]

This can take a while I'm afraid, your still in stage 1 of the cycle, however a small upside is that your filter is already processing nitrite, so hopefully stage 2 won't be too long (normally the longest stage).

Just hang on in there and you will have fish in that tank in no time, the other option is to take some more mature media from your second tank, as the first lot hasn't done anything, this will give the bacteria a good starting point to colonise

Hi, again thanks for your help. Here what is happenning so far. Yesterday my ammonia was 0, nitrite was 0 and nitrate 80. So I added mor ammonia to not kill of my bacteria, i dosed it up to 2ppm and more than 12 hours later my amminia still at 1. I read in this forum that for cycle to complete ammonia needs to drop from 2-3ppm within 12 hours. Is this true?