New Cycle Help?

[mancton]

hi everyone
ive just started to fishless cycle (using a small piece of mature media), added ammonia to juwel 180 tank using the ammonia calculator. The reading was very high (8ppm using API kit)so did a water change to get it to 4-5 ppm. Will this high ammonia have affected the start of the cycle? Ph is 7 and heater is at 30c.
Many thanks any help will be great just want to get off on the right foot!

 

[r.d.bid]

I'm pretty newb here, but from what I've learned from reading these forums you should not have anything to worry about.

I've read that the high ammonia will start to grow a string of bacteria that we don't really need in our filters but since you did a water change quickly there was no time to effect anything.
And your mature media shouldn't be effected either since they eat ammonia. It's like you took them to a Las Vegas buffet.

But like I mentioned earlier, I'm newb so I could be totally wrong. Please correct me if I am as I'm here to learn as much as I can.

 

[fluttermoth]

No, you're quite right, r.d.bid. As long as the high ammonia hasn't killed the bacteria, which is unlikely, your cycle should be fine, OP

 

[mancton]

Thanks for the replys should leave the tank alone now to do its stuff!

 

[Gvilleguy]

Sounds like you have read up on the subject - so that's great. Good luck with the cycling. Keep an eye on your pH, and if it drops into the 6.4 range, consider raising it using bicarbonate of soda.