Fishless cycle

[r0b3y]

i just started a fishless cycle.. according to this http/www.aquahobby.com/articles/e_fishless.php
i believe i have put a tad to much ammonia, i tested it around an hr and a half after adding the ammonia and it was reading at around 8.. is this a bad thing..

i have live plants in there at the moment but they like ammonia so i'm guessing this wont harm them??...

anyway my main question.. is having to much bad? i'll wait till it settles before i reapply the teaspoon of ammonia..

r0b3y

 

[KentBlokey]

I would assume too much is bad, yes.

If you already have a Tank set up, won't don't you just you the good bacteria from that. Like from the substrate and filter media?

 

[StarOrbs]

You don't want to overload your tank with ammonia I did that the first time I did fishless cycling just put in a little at a time to get it to around 3 ppm and keep adding that everyday, if your ammonia gets to high like around 8 ppm then do a partial water change to get it down and just add a little everyday until you see it to start going down they you can go back to your original recipe. Personally when I started getting nitrites I waited 7 days to see if it would go down at all but it still never did so I did a huge water change, waited a couple days and that seemed to do the trick.

I've had 2 firemouths, a severum, and 1 clown loach in my tank for almost 2 weeks now and they've been happy and the water has been ammonia 0, nitrite 0, and nitrate 0-5 ppm.

I was a bit impatient because I had a bad algae bloom and it was driving me nuts so I cleaned it and did what I stated above.