#fishless cycle

[addie-bella]

The apartment took the no aquariums rule out of the lease! So I immediately bought the things needed to start a fishless cycle.

I’m so excited!

I’m gunna deck out this lil 10g and make it super pretty but low tech.

[aquacalypse]

Operation: Puffer Fish

Picked up a Fluval Flex 15 Gallon yesterday after deciding I want to keep Pea Puffers.

I assembled and scaped the tank today.

I'm going to fishless cycle for 2 weeks and check the levels. (I've seeded the tank with some media from a well established tank of mine, so it shouldn't take long to cycle)

[yourstoxically]

I put a piece of mopani driftwood in my tank and it's definitely still leeching tannins

Tbh I don't mind the look of tannin stained water and I have nothing in there (other than growing bacteria hopefully) but I don't know if I should take it out?

I used a bunch of prime in my tank but I boiled the wood for 2-3 hours and forgot to let it soak in dechlorinated water afterward, but I figured adding prime would make that ok?

Will it prevent my tank from cycling? It's been about 5 days now and when I tested it yesterday, it was still around 2-4ppm for ammonia. I also have some dragon stone in there. I can update this post when I'm off work with the rest of my parameters if that is relevant knowledge

Also, is it possible to over dose on prime?

[shrimpcakes]

Fishless cycling

I'm being told so many different things about nitrites during fishless cycling. So many are saying not to do water changes and so many more are saying not let nitrites max the test, not to go above 2ppm, etc.

These were my parameters yesterday after doing a 50% water change per advice on a forum. I'm pretty sure my nitrites maxed the test out. I don't know if I should dose ammonia and wait or if I should do a water change to bring nitrites down and then dose ammonia? Or if I should let it sit with no changes tonight? Gahhhh frustrated

[tr1ck5]

Halp!! D:

Hello fishblr! I’m hoping to get some much needed advice on this fine night! I’ve started cycling my 55 gal on the 9th of Feb (using a dead shrimp at first but switching to pure ammonia after 2 days because UGH SMELL (+ it’s easier to control the ammonia readings)) ANYWAYS all was going smoothly and on the 24th of Feb my nitrItes were at 2/5 (colors are hard)ppm and my nitrAtes at 0.5ppm. Yes! The cycle is, well, cycling! Except that it’s been like this since then. My ammonia gets down to 0.25/0.50ppm, I add ammonia (to 4ppm), next day its disappeared, I add, and so on and so forth, with no change whatsoever to my nitrItes and nitrAtes. I tested my ph yesterday (the 8th of Mars) and got 6.4/6.6. Thinking it might be too low for the beneficial bacteria to grow, I did a 50% water change, which brought it back up to 7. I use Seachem prime as a dechlorinator (might seem counterproductive but I read this doesn’t affect the cycling process?) I’m really at a loss here! Am I being too impatient? Is there something I’m missing? :( Thank you so much for your time!!

[hellomydeer]

fishless cycling: nitrAtes will not form

hello!! for any fishblr people out there I am hoping that you could help me. I got a fish tank about a month ago and have been trying to cycle it, but for some reason I'm stuck at the nitrAte formation stage. I'm at the point where I can consistently add 2ppm of pure ammonia to my tank and it will be reduced to around 0 the next day. however, while my nitrItes and ammonia have been going down, I do not see any evidence of nitrAtes being formed, which seems odd. I've looked around on a couple forums but haven't really seen anyone else having this problem which has been frustrating to say the least lol.

I've recently added some moss balls to my tank, do you think that they would somehow be eating up the nitrAte? they've only been in the tank for 2 days, but I've been seeing nitrIte for much longer than that so I would assume that there would be at least SOME nitrAte in the tank. that's the only thing that I can think of that would be stopping the cycle, unless I'm just being dumb.

I haven't been doing any water changes or anything other than adding a small amount of water into the tank because of evaporation. Its all be dechlorinated. I've been using an API test kit and double checking each result every time I test. I honestly have no idea what's wrong and every website has different info for fishless cycling, so I'm at a bit of a loss :(

ill go ahead and link my log down below so that you can see what's been going on, please tell me if the link doesn't work!!

if anyone has any tips or suggestions feel free to let me know!! and if you know of someone who could help please reblog this so they could see :) thank you!!

link to fish tank log:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Z2wT15i9sCf47D18v1ZDDdjVk5yVmu8i4X7Dn38jTU/edit?usp=drivesdk

[bettagetkraken]

Switched the heater and filter/pump around, so I still have some movement but not the endless whirlwind effect that flattened the back curtain. Also looks better from the front now!

With how much they’ve grown so far I’m curious to see if they’ll be nearing the surface by fish day.

Shuffled the roots a bit, now have two fish-sized tunnels/hides.

Nitrites dropped from 5ppm to 0 overnight.

13 days ‘til fish day!

[aquacalypse]

Operation: Puffer Fish

Picked up a Fluval Flex 15 Gallon yesterday after deciding I want to keep Pea Puffers.

I assembled and scaped the tank today.

I'm going to fishless cycle for 2 weeks and check the levels. (I've seeded the tank with some media from a well established tank of mine, so it shouldn't take long to cycle)