Tonight 65l Fishless Results Comments And Encouragement Please

[Ginga@139]

Ok here we go
dosed up with 3.5ml of ammonia 9pm saturday night



11th Test 8.30pm monday 17th
Ammonia Oppm
Nitrates 5ppm
Nitrites 1.0ppm
PH 8


ok so with these results im going to add another 3.5 ml of ammonia ..yes thats correct ??? everybody please tell me yess
tommorrow i can check at 12 hrs . off work for next 10 days so hoping to finish this off by then .. all fingers crossed ..pleaseee



Ok Added 3.5ml of ammonia at about 9am this morning
been out all day.. had great day thanks
so results as below
How are these results for 12hrs???
10th test
9pm sunday 16th
Ammonia 2ppm
Nitrates 5ppm
Nitrites 2.0ppm

so conculsion
ammoinia up to 2ppm from 0.25 this morning
Nitrates same at 5ppm
nitrites up to 2ppm from 1ppm this morning

please tell me what you think

8am 16th sunday
9th Test
Ammonia 0.25ppm
Nitrates 5ppm
Nitrites 1.0ppm



8th Test
Ammonia 2.0ppm
Nitrates 5ppm
Nitrites 2.0ppm
PH 8

7th Test
14/08/09
Ammonia 0.0ppm
Nitrates 5ppm
Nitrites 2.0ppm

was suprized to see ammonia at "O"
nitrates dropped to 5 and nitrotes the same
Do i now add another 3ml of ammonia to the tank???

6th Test
13/08/09
Ammonia 1.0ppm
Nitrates 10ppm
Nitrites 2.0ppm




12/08/09
5th Test
Ammonia Lighter than 2ppm but not quite 1ppm
Nitrates 40ppm
Nitrites 2ppm

11/08/09 8.15pm
4th Test
Ammonia 2.0ppm
Nitrates 40ppm
Nitrites 2.0ppm



so were these figuress going??
Are they going in right direction


3rd Test 10/08/09
8.30pm
PH 7.6
Ammonia 4ppm
Nitrates 20ppm
Nitrites 2ppm




2nd Test 9/8/09
8pm
Ph 7.6
Ammonia .. 4.0 ppm but not quite light enough to be 2.0ppm
Nitrates ... looks lighter than 40ppm but not quite 20 ppm
Nitrites 5ppm



1st test 8/8/09
8pm
PH 7.6
Ammonia 4 ppm
Nitrates 40ppm
Nitrites 2ppm

 

[waterdrop]

Well, you look to be getting very good A-Bac growth for only 9 or 10 days into a fishless cycle. Sometimes one doesn't see ammonia drop to zero until two or three weeks. The nitrites(NO2) don't seem to have done much, but we wouldn't expect much from them this early on. Did you use any mature media?

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[Ginga@139]

Well, you look to be getting very good A-Bac growth for only 9 or 10 days into a fishless cycle. Sometimes one doesn't see ammonia drop to zero until two or three weeks. The nitrites(NO2) don't seem to have done much, but we wouldn't expect much from them this early on. Did you use any mature media?

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No .. wish i had some mature media tho...
had tank set up for a bout 2 weeks before dicovered u gals and guys
was just doing wat LFS said which was
fill tank add tap safe then put in some filter aid then bang in a week add fish.......lol
sounded so easy
well never got to add fish.. water level kept being wrong they kept trying to sell me stuff.. then found this place.. your all are mind of information
if you looked a my firdt thread confused? it sums it up a bit...
again as i aways say .please any information you caan give im open for all good news bad news
just wantto get this on its way

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, I remember looking through your main thread while I was off getting bad internet access during my travels (off looking at fish on faraway islands for me!) I think I remember it looked like you were doing ok. My posts about it never posted up I don't think. Its odd that you show nitrites(NO2) at 2.0ppm right from day one. Was there any nitrite in your tap water? And that level has just stayed the same, which is also a bit odd. Nonetheless, the ammonia is being put in and then is dropping, which is normal and good. Eventually the nitrite(NO2) may just go ahead and increase up to the test limit and that will be your nitrite spike phase, which can last quite a long time sometimes.

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[Ginga@139]

right then just stank the lounge out
did not put lid back on ammonia bottle propally
any how
add 5ml of ammonia
will check again at 12hrs ish

Waterdrop.. question if i may you said something about my nitrite levels being bit low could you explain for me


Thanks
Ginga

EDIT ...lololol you answered my question before i even asked it ..great work thanks

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, normally we expect to see zero ppm nitrite(NO2) in the typical tap water and zero ppm nitrite(NO2) in the beginning week or two of the tank water, with just small traces of nitrite showing up eventually and then all of a sudden, when the ammonia oxidizing bacteria really kick in, we see the nitrite(NO2) "spike," which just means it goes higher than the test measures and stays too high for a long time. (Each 1ppm of ammonia is processed into about 2.7ppm of nitrite(NO2) and eventually into about 3.6ppm of NO3, so lots and lots of NO2 gets produced by all that household ammonia you'll be dumping in!)

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