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I'm into day 70, and if the Nitrites don't start going down soon I'm going to start eating them myself.

Hi again My Juwel internal filter has two main sponges, a blue one which the manufacturer say is the biological one, and a green one which is advertised as being for nitrate removal (I've really just picked up on this). It's seems like it's just a sponge, so I assumed was just somewhere else...

Ebay is full of places to get the API test kit in the UK, the cheapest I've found is here My link Even with postage it's a lot cheaper than Pets at Home (obviously you could get it today from there).

I think it must be a UK thing, I was also curious to know what it smelled like, so took a good deep noseful, and pretty soon wished I hadn't. I've just looked at the (Homebase version) bottle and it does say don't inhale, so there you go. I haven't had my usual winter (xmas) cold yet, so...

Hi everyone My tank is a Jewel Reckord 800, 110 litres with the standard internal filter. For those who know the brand it's a compact super with a 400l/hour pump and internal 100W heater. The filter comprises an open 'basket' type plastic assembly which slides in/out vertically and holds the...

It's really frustrating isn't it, I'm going through very similar circumstances to you with my fishless cycle, and if I had any hair to waste I'd have pulled it out in clumps by now. I'm on day 56. The first 13 days went great with Ammonia dropping to zero, and Nitrites were peaked out at 10 for...

Hi everyone I'm on day 33 of my fishless cycle, and apart from a slight hiccup between days 14 to 20 where I'd stopped monitoring Ph and it dropped to 6 thereby stalling the process, my cycle has been pretty predictable and to plan. At that point (day 20) I did a full water change, my tap Ph is...

......do you stop doing stupid things and become safe to own fish? So far during my fishless cycle I have: 1. Had a good sniff inside the ammonia bottle to see if it's scented, it certainly cleared the sinuses. :hyper: 2. Put a nice piece of bogwood into the tank, only to see the cycle stall...

Thanks for the advice everyone, you may also like to know that this place helped with a problem this week. My fishless cycle slowed right down a few days ago, and searching on here taught me about stalling, and what to do about it. I wasn't really watching my Ph value, after the 1st week or so...

Hi I've been reading this excellent forum for a few weeks now, and as my tank is probably mid-way through it's fish-less cycle I'm starting to think about what's going in it. I hadn't even heard of a fish-less cycle before I read about it on here, so that just shows how valuable this site is...