Nitrite..how Quickly Does It Drop?

Cheffi

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Fishless cycling....ammonia dropping from 5ppm to 0 daily. Nitrite and nitrate off the scale. When the nitrite eventually drops does it come down gradually or just plummet one day or somewhere inbetween? If you can all remember that long ago when you did it :lol:
 
You're in the same stage as me- seems to take forever, doesn't it? And the silly thing is, I can't remember the details of how it worked last time, just that this stage was the one that took the longest. I get up every morning thinking, it's got to have dropped in the night, and it hasn't.
Still, I do remember that it did work eventually last time, so no doubt it will work now, I've just got to have faith...actually, those bacteria probably don't care if I have faith or not as long as they get the right dose of ammonia. I overdosed at the beginning of this cycle, so that slowed things down a bit but at least now they are eating the ammonia, so things are moving, it's going to work...
 
Yes know what you mean. Obviously for it to go down 5ppm in a day there are plenty of ammonia eating bacteria and as my nitrates are off the scale there are some nitrite eating bacteria but just not enough of them.
Get's very disheartening doesn't it when you put those drops in tube and it shoots straight up to dark pink :(
 

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