Second Stage Cycle Started Today Help

[waterdrop]

This is several times now of nitrite trying to be higher than ammonia, so its pretty clear that you must be well into the nitrite spike stage of the cycle. Interesting how it seems to confirm that you can sort of "see" it despite it being a fish-in cycle.

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[lana]

This is several times now of nitrite trying to be higher than ammonia, so its pretty clear that you must be well into the nitrite spike stage of the cycle. Interesting how it seems to confirm that you can sort of "see" it despite it being a fish-in cycle.

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cool cool i like hearing i am well in to it , can't wait for it to be over , i am clearly into more water changes again, 2 to 3 a day again, i got teased being able to do 1 a day for a few days

and the second baby i found this morning is gone he go through the crack in the little holdinh tank some how i put the other one in the netted tank on the side so he don't so the same

 

[lana]

day 30

6 am reading

ammonia 0.25

nitrite 1.0

nitrate 5 to 10

ph 7.2

temo 30 C

alll fish goood

50% water change done

 

[waterdrop]

Years ago when I was in school I took care of some tanks in my biology class that had builtin drains and faucets (builtin to the tanks)... wouldn't that be a dream for fish-in cycling?

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[lana]

Years ago when I was in school I took care of some tanks in my biology class that had builtin drains and faucets (builtin to the tanks)... wouldn't that be a dream for fish-in cycling?

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lol ya really

but i love the thing i got goes right to my sink drains and fill in under 20 mins no bucket to carry , just have to watch the fish when draining, lil' buggers are so use to it they don't run and hide they want to play with it , i have almost got a few of them

 

[waterdrop]

Agreed, I had a zebra danio the other day go right up the gravel cleaning cylinder portion and was in there fighting the extreme current at the beginning of the skinny siphon part. I was freaking out trying to get him out of there (without losing my siphon suction of course, lazy me, lol) and in truth I think he was really enjoying all the excitement, lol.

 

[Onderdole]

Years ago when I was in school I took care of some tanks in my biology class that had builtin drains and faucets (builtin to the tanks)... wouldn't that be a dream for fish-in cycling?

~~waterdrop~~

lol ya really

but i love the thing i got goes right to my sink drains and fill in under 20 mins no bucket to carry , just have to watch the fish when draining, lil' buggers are so use to it they don't run and hide they want to play with it , i have almost got a few of them

Lana, im another noob doing a fish in cycle.

im way at the begining (day 7)

seeing what you've put up here is very valuable in that i get an idea in advance of the ammount of work involved.

thanks for all this.

 

[waterdrop]

Years ago when I was in school I took care of some tanks in my biology class that had builtin drains and faucets (builtin to the tanks)... wouldn't that be a dream for fish-in cycling?

~~waterdrop~~

lol ya really

but i love the thing i got goes right to my sink drains and fill in under 20 mins no bucket to carry , just have to watch the fish when draining, lil' buggers are so use to it they don't run and hide they want to play with it , i have almost got a few of them

Lana, im another noob doing a fish in cycle.

im way at the begining (day 7)

seeing what you've put up here is very valuable in that i get an idea in advance of the ammount of work involved.

thanks for all this.

Yes, its a very good example of why fish-in cycling can be strikingly more difficult and laborious than fishless cycling. Really shows why we try so hard to convince newcomers to fishless cycle, or to try hard to return fish if they've just started without knowing this aspect of the hobby yet. Truely sad that the "ecosystem" of missing/misinformation is so well developed within the retail LFS world.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[lana]

Years ago when I was in school I took care of some tanks in my biology class that had builtin drains and faucets (builtin to the tanks)... wouldn't that be a dream for fish-in cycling?

~~waterdrop~~

lol ya really

but i love the thing i got goes right to my sink drains and fill in under 20 mins no bucket to carry , just have to watch the fish when draining, lil' buggers are so use to it they don't run and hide they want to play with it , i have almost got a few of them

Lana, im another noob doing a fish in cycle.

im way at the begining (day 7)

seeing what you've put up here is very valuable in that i get an idea in advance of the ammount of work involved.

thanks for all this.

thanks alot of work but worth it ... if i can help anyway just ask and of course there are very helpful people here


what is your set up and how many fish do you have in the tank


doing water change now myself tank filling bank up

 

[lana]

ok 6 pm readings

ammonia betweem 0 and 0.25
nitrites 0.50 to 1

nitrates 5 to 10

ph 7.2

temp 30 C

all fish good


did 50% water change

will retest in an hour or so

 

[lana]

ok test one last time since the nitrites go up very fast and they were at 0.25 again

so did my 3rd water change today , that should hold it til morning

 

[Onderdole]

>what is your set up and how many fish do you have in the tank <

hi still working hard i see, i admire your efforts on behalf of the fish.

I got a 88lt (20Gal) tank with local fish from the river minnow , Dace and so on ,also have some comets in a seperate tank, al cold water , from advice on here and cold water section im gonna swap soem arround and put soem of the fish back into the river to keep fishg density down and have a sociable tank.

I've been reading this about free amonia and combined amonia that our tests give us and it indicates that the dangerious amonia levels we get from the test may not be so bad or require the extent of water changes

http/cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~piwc/w3-rese...mmonia/nh3.html

Ibeeing a noob i may get flamed bad for the lack of experience if its a duff article. Wont help you nowe as your past your amonia spike but mayeb good learnign none the less.

bye now

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yeah i agree with how helpful this post is to illustrate the process and the work involved because I think you've recorded everything brilliantly lana. with your permission i'll stick a link to it in my fish-in cycling article so when people are just first learning about the cycling process and deciding which way to go they've got a bit of useful reference material.

 

[Onderdole]

yeah i agree with how helpful this post is to illustrate the process and the work involved because I think you've recorded everything brilliantly lana. with your permission i'll stick a link to it in my fish-in cycling article so when people are just first learning about the cycling process and deciding which way to go they've got a bit of useful reference material.

could someone do the work of extracting the testing readings and the times or cycle day so as to have data record in one place?

 

[lana]

yeah i agree with how helpful this post is to illustrate the process and the work involved because I think you've recorded everything brilliantly lana. with your permission i'll stick a link to it in my fish-in cycling article so when people are just first learning about the cycling process and deciding which way to go they've got a bit of useful reference material.

miss wiggles please do let's just hope it is read before the fish go in