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Add a pinch of fish food daily with a biological filter running and do this for 45 days. After that u can start adding fiahTinySwimmer said:In helping cycle my new tank? I've just bought a bottle! After using, how long do you tend to wait before putting the fish in?
Did you rinse out the aquarium before you filled it up? If not take out the water, rinse aquarium a few times, get an unused wet sponge, wipe the glass with it, rinse repeat, or a papertowl. My water has never looked like tharpt before, did you have the filter running, did you rinse the carbon if it has any before installing in filter?TinySwimmer said:Just opened the lid and this is what the water looks like!!!!! View attachment 350111View attachment 350112
I'm losing my mind here what is even happening?!
I did, I hosed the tank wiped down the sides yesterday and added new water. Today it looks this way. Looks disgusting this didn't happen in my old tankBrutal Riot Girl said:Did you rinse out the aquarium before you filled it up? If not take out the water, rinse aquarium a few times, get an unused wet sponge, wipe the glass with it, rinse repeat, or a papertowl. My water has never looked like tharpt before, did you have the filter running, did you rinse the carbon if it has any before installing in filter?
I don't know. I thought ammonia was a bad thing.Racing1113 said:Why would you want to remove ammonia when you're cycling your tank? The tank can't cycle without ammonia. That being said, 6.0 is a little higher than I'm comfortable with, I would do a small water change to get the ammonia down to 4.0 just to make sure your cycle doesn't stall.
High ammonia is bad when you have fish in the tank. But if you're doing a fishless cycle and the ammonia or nitrites get high, you're not harming anything. Really the only thing to watch out for is that it doesn't get so high that it stalls your cycle. Cycling a tank can be super long, and can be frustrating. But you're definitely on the right track. I would still just do some water changes to get your ammonia down to 4.0 and I'd bet pretty soon you'll see some nitrites.TinySwimmer said:I don't know. I thought ammonia was a bad thing.
I'm throwing the whole thing away and keeping them where they are in their current tank. This whole buying a new tank thing has been one disaster to the next and I'm fed up with it.
It's extremely disheartening.
Okay thanks. What about the way it looks? Have you seen that before? I tend to do a lot of my research on YouTube but I don't understand any of the terminology really so it's hard to know what's going onRacing1113 said:High ammonia is bad when you have fish in the tank. But if you're doing a fishless cycle and the ammonia or nitrites get high, you're not harming anything. Really the only thing to watch out for is that it doesn't get so high that it stalls your cycle. Cycling a tank can be super long, and can be frustrating. But you're definitely on the right track. I would still just do some water changes to get your ammonia down to 4.0 and I'd bet pretty soon you'll see some nitrites.
Lol trust me I've been there! The cloudiness definitely looks like a bacterial bloom, which is a good thing. Still trying to figure out what the stuff on the top is though - at first I thought it was bubbles.TinySwimmer said:Okay thanks. What about the way it looks? Have you seen that before? I tend to do a lot of my research on YouTube but I don't understand any of the terminology really so it's hard to know what's going on