Iamonslaughtt
Member
Hey guys!
A couple weeks ago I posted on here out of frustration for my new 30 gallon not cycling. Ive had some pretty sudden developments so I thought I would share! About a month after losing all my Tiger Barbs (bad attempt at fish in cycle) I still had a 4.0 ammonia reading in the tank (using fishfood) with no nitrites or nitrates. After a lot of research I concluded something was prohibiting the bacteria from taking hold; so with that in mind I did a 50% water change with a light vacuum and double dosed prime to dechlorinate the water. My main suspect was my water wasn't fully detoxified due to my tap testing high for ammonia (almost max on apI chart!) Sure enough after double dosing the tank for chlorine, two days later I have a huge nitrite spike at almost 5.0! I tested this morning and I even have 5.0 nitrates now! I have none in the source water so this must be proof of the second bacteria establishing! Is it normal to see nitrates so soon after nitrites? I'm not complaining though lol. After all this I'm 95% sure that some chlorine remained in the tank preventing the cycle and more prime fixed it! Has this happened to anyone else? Btw todays test readings are
PH: 8.0
Amm: 2.0-4.0
Trite: 5.0
Trate: 5.0
I'm beyond excited to finally see some movement, hopefully now that nitrates are here I'm almost done! Thanks for reading!
A couple weeks ago I posted on here out of frustration for my new 30 gallon not cycling. Ive had some pretty sudden developments so I thought I would share! About a month after losing all my Tiger Barbs (bad attempt at fish in cycle) I still had a 4.0 ammonia reading in the tank (using fishfood) with no nitrites or nitrates. After a lot of research I concluded something was prohibiting the bacteria from taking hold; so with that in mind I did a 50% water change with a light vacuum and double dosed prime to dechlorinate the water. My main suspect was my water wasn't fully detoxified due to my tap testing high for ammonia (almost max on apI chart!) Sure enough after double dosing the tank for chlorine, two days later I have a huge nitrite spike at almost 5.0! I tested this morning and I even have 5.0 nitrates now! I have none in the source water so this must be proof of the second bacteria establishing! Is it normal to see nitrates so soon after nitrites? I'm not complaining though lol. After all this I'm 95% sure that some chlorine remained in the tank preventing the cycle and more prime fixed it! Has this happened to anyone else? Btw todays test readings are
PH: 8.0
Amm: 2.0-4.0
Trite: 5.0
Trate: 5.0
I'm beyond excited to finally see some movement, hopefully now that nitrates are here I'm almost done! Thanks for reading!